Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-12 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF promoted two officers to the General Staff earlier this week, with Guy Markizeno becoming the new prime minister's military secretary, and Tal Politis becoming the new defense attaché in Washington.
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[2026-06-12 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel Police shut down Highway 4 south of Ramat Gan ahead of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft protests on Thursday.
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[2026-06-12 00:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has said the US will be hitting Iran “very hard tonight”, adding the military will be “taking Kharg Island” and other Iranian “oil infrastructure points in the not too distant future”.
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[2026-06-12 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The former top lawyer of the Toronto District School Board has sued his former employers for an alleged “poisoned and systemically antisemitic environment.” The Statement of Claim, viewed by The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, was submitted to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice last month.
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[2026-06-12 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United States will sanction thirteen individuals and entities that attempted to purchase and transfer weapons systems on behalf of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), State Department spokesperson Tommy Piggot announced in a press statement on Wednesday.
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[2026-06-12 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japanese companies primarily produce chemicals using naphtha, at large complexes like these that line Tokyo Bay in Chiba prefecture. (Photo by Tomoki Mera)
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[2026-06-12 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US inflation accelerated to a three-year high in May as soaring energy costs linked to the US-Israeli war on Iran pushed prices higher across the economy, according to government data. Food prices also rose sharply.
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[2026-06-12 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US inflation accelerated to a three-year high in May as soaring energy costs linked to the US-Israeli war on Iran pushed prices higher across the economy, according to government data. Food prices also rose sharply.
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[2026-06-12 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US Treasury Secretary Bessent announced on X Thursday morning that Washington is moving forward on a plan to compensate America's Gulf regional allies for damage sustained during Iranian counterattacks on their energy and civic infrastructure.
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[2026-06-11 23:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE on Thursday unveiled an expanded prosthetics support programme for Palestinians who have suffered amputations after being injured in the Gaza war.
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[2026-06-11 23:30 UTC+10:00] [World Bank] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Forecast for this year downgraded to 2.5% and inflation expected to jump as a result of war in the Middle East
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[2026-06-11 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A woman walks past the World Bank building in Washington on April 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)PRNTO
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[2026-06-11 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The global economy is this year set to expand at its lowest rate since the Covid-19 pandemic, with nearly zero growth forecast for Gulf nations as a result of the Iran war, the latest World Bank report has found.
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[2026-06-11 23:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Players, coaches, and supporters from every corner of the world are descending on Mexico, Canada and the United States as the minutes tick down to the 2026 World Cup.
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[2026-06-11 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For more news, analysis, and the latest updates, head to jpost.com.
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[2026-06-11 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An IDF officer and non-commissioned officer (NCO) were wounded by an explosive device during a counterterrorism operation in Jenin, the IDF announced on Thursday.
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[2026-06-11 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: With 13 new yeshivot Hesder on Thursday joining 12 prior institutions, there are now 25 this week that have banned their orthodox religious zionist male students from joining the tank corps in protest of an IDF pilot program to try to integrate women into the corps.
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[2026-06-11 22:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Four activists from the Palestine Action group face sentencing in the United Kingdom as “terrorists” on Friday, despite only being convicted by a jury of other criminal charges.
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[2026-06-11 22:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran has announced that the Strait of Hormuz has been completely closed to all oil tankers and commercial ships in response to recent US strikes on the country, and stated any vessel attempting to pass would be shot at.
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[2026-06-11 22:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Iran will consider all of Elon Musk's companies in the Middle East as military targets as it retaliates against the U.S., Iranian state media outlet Fars reported Thursday.
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[2026-06-11 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-11 22:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People shop in the produce section of a grocery store on Monday, May 11, 2026, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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[2026-06-11 22:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-11 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A hiring sign is displayed at a restaurant in Niles, Ill., Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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[2026-06-11 22:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image provided by the Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was head of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza and has been held in Israeli detention for the past 17 months without charge, is seen on a video call from prison during an Israeli Supreme Court hearing of an appeal by his lawyers to end his detention, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
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[2026-06-11 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli military forces raided the towns of Ma’ariya, and al-Arda in southern Syria’s Yarmouk Basin area at dawn, according to local officials cited by the news agency Sana.
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[2026-06-11 22:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US military said on Thursday it had disabled a third oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman overnight, as it “violated the blockade against Iran by attempting to transport Iranian oil”.
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[2026-06-11 22:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S. military will attack Iran "VERY HARD TONIGHT," and will soon take over the country's "oil infrastructure points," President Donald Trump said Thursday morning.
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[2026-06-11 22:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Live on television, President Donald Trump, sitting in the Oval Office, told reporters on Wednesday that the United States has been sneaking millions of barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz despite tensions defying Iran’s restrictions on transit through the waterway.
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[2026-06-11 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US equity futures are higher led by tech and small caps, with traders buying the dip in stocks as a swift conclusion to the latest round of US strikes against Iran raised expectations that talks over a peace deal and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will get back on track.
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[2026-06-11 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Samar Hammad gave birth to her youngest daughter, Nour Abu Samaan, just hours before the war in Gaza began in October 2023.
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[2026-06-11 22:18 UTC+10:00] [European Central Bank] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: European Central Bank increases main deposit rate to 2.25%, with two further rises expected by next spring
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[2026-06-11 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The European Central Bank announced a quarter-point rate hike on Thursday, bringing its key interest rate to 2.25% as the Iran war continues to blow inflation off target.
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[2026-06-11 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Football fans across the Middle East and North Africa will be able to watch every match of the Fifa World Cup 2026 live through beIN Sports, although availability and subscription routes differ by country.
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[2026-06-11 22:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: British Secretary of Defense John Healey has tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in the latest blow to the embattled Labour government. Healey complained in an open letter that Starmer has been “unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources” required for sweeping reforms he sought to implement and to raise the spending level to 3% of GDP to meet Britain’s obligation to NATO.
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[2026-06-11 22:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: At a motion for a vote of no confidence against Arwa Elrayess, the first Palestinian president of the University of Oxford’s debating society, Oxford Union, she was accused by a 20-year-old student of contributing to “an atmosphere of hostility and harassment”.
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[2026-06-11 21:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-11 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Overnight, there did not appear to be any new major exchanges of fire after Iran launched retaliatory strikes on US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan - following the US bombing of some dozens of targets in Iran earlier, in the wake of the downing of a US Apache attack helicopter in the Hormuz area earlier this week.
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[2026-06-11 21:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will run for office again in the election later this year, his Likud party has announced.
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[2026-06-11 21:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United States and Iran exchanged strikes on Wednesday and Thursday, placing a fragile April ceasefire under its most serious strain yet and drawing several Gulf states directly into the latest round of escalation.
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[2026-06-11 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel is expected to approve on Thursday the allocation of 1 billion shekels ($337.8 million) to build new settlements and connect them to infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, Israeli rights group Peace Now said.
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[2026-06-11 21:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hamas has denounced the Palestinian Authority's arrest of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, calling an end to the “farce of the so-called security coordination” with Israel.
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[2026-06-11 21:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A prominent Palestinian doctor abducted by Israel in late 2024 and held in detention ever since has appeared by video link at an Israeli Supreme Court hearing in Jerusalem, with his family saying he shows signs of visible torture.
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[2026-06-11 21:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-11 21:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-06-11 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: US military’s Central Command says it launched more strikes on Iran on second day of renewed fire
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[2026-06-11 20:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Three Indian sailors have died in a US military operation to halt a tanker off Oman as part of Washington’s efforts to blockade Iran-linked shipping, Indian authorities said on Thursday.
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[2026-06-11 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Trump administration has launched an investigation into prominent Iran war critic Trita Parsi, according to a report in the Free Press.
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[2026-06-11 20:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Sourcing crude from Moscow to counter Middle East supply shocks risks drawing a backlash from the West
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[2026-06-11 20:31 UTC+10:00] [Malaysia] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Sourcing crude from Moscow to counter Middle East supply shocks risks drawing a backlash from the West
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