Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-28 09:12 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: President Donald Trump has expressed disappointment with US negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and warned that “sometimes you have to use force,” amid a massive military presence in the region that could presage strikes on the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-02-28 09:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image from video circulating on social media shows protesters dancing and cheering around a bonfire as they take to the streets in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 9, 2026, despite an intensifying crackdown. (UGC via AP, File)
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[2026-02-28 09:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Purim is coming up, and you might want to celebrate with the staff and customers of a small-town supermarket, Shefa Issachar, in Checkout (aka Kupa Rashit), the popular Israeli sitcom which you can watch on the KAN website at kan.org.il or on Netflix.
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[2026-02-28 08:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. stocks sank as Wall Street kept punishing companies that could become losers in the AI revolution. A surprisingly discouraging update on inflation also hurt the market Friday, while oil prices climbed along with worries about tensions between the United States and Iran.
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[2026-02-28 08:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: China is delivering “offensive” weapons as well as additional “defensive” arms to Iran, with the US on the cusp of launching an attack on the Islamic Republic, three officials familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-02-28 08:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-02-28 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An Iran-backed Iraqi armed group has ordered its fighters to prepare for a potential “long war of attrition” in the event of US strikes on Tehran, warning that Washington would suffer heavy losses if it launches a new conflict in the region.
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[2026-02-28 07:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United Nations nuclear watchdog has said in a report that Iran has stored most of its highly enriched uranium at an underground tunnel complex at its Isfahan facility, urging Tehran to allow inspections as it faces growing pressure from the United States over its nuclear programme.
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[2026-02-28 07:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Israel's High Court has temporarily halted a ban on international aid groups from working in the occupied Palestinian territories unless they meet strict new rules.
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[2026-02-28 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi has met with United States Vice President JD Vance, amid growing fears grow of a potential US attack on Iran.
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[2026-02-28 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US wants to go to war with Iran and will attack once Washington is sure that its weapon stockpiles are sufficient, according to former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and RT contributor Scott Ritter.
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[2026-02-28 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Dozens of far-right activists protested loudly outside of Channel 13 journalist Lucy Aharish’s apartment building on Thursday, Israeli media reported.
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[2026-02-28 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to travel to Israel next week as President Donald Trump expresses displeasure with the ongoing negotiations with Iran.
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[2026-02-28 06:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Video ShortsDuration: 1 minute 57 seconds1m 57sMeet Denmark's new soldiers reporting for dutyDuration: 1 minute 36 seconds1m 36sWhy is Andrew still in line for the throne?Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds1m 35sEpstein promised uni and modelling jobs to recruit victimsDuration: 45 seconds45sTrump brings out US men's hockey team during State of the Union addressDuration: 45 seconds45sFour-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of UkraineDuration: 1 minute 29 seconds1m 29sUS military build-up ahead of possible Iran attackDuration: 1 minute 18 seconds1m 18sRetired astronaut's grave
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[2026-02-28 06:08 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-02-28 05:58 UTC+10:00] [Photography] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenGaza CityThe Palestinian Nasir family break their fast amid the rubble of the Abu Hilweh school in the Bureij refugee camp. Progress on the Gaza peace plan stalled this week over disagreements on how Hamas should be disarmed, with Israel threatening to go back to full-scale war if the condition is not carried out quicklyPhotograph: Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenGaza CityPalestinians spin steel wool sparklers during the holy month of Ramadan amid the rubble of residential
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[2026-02-28 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-02-28 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-02-28 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that dozens of international aid agencies can continue to operate in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian territories, freezing an earlier government decision that barred aid groups that failed to comply with new rules.
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[2026-02-28 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Varias personas se reúnen en un mirador para ver la posible llegada del portaaviones estadounidense USS Gerald R. Ford en el mar Mediterráneo, cerca de la costa de Haifa, en el norte de Israel, el viernes 27 de febrero de 2026. (AP Foto/Leo Correa)
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[2026-02-28 05:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump told his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed, that Saudi Arabia asked him to impose sanctions on the emirates over their support for Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), The New York Times reported on Friday.
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[2026-02-28 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEL AVIV, Israel — US President Donald Trump said Friday he's “not happy” with Iran talks so far but that he'll wait to see what happens in additional rounds of negotiations with the Middle Eastern country over its nuclear program.
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[2026-02-28 05:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Pelo menos 10 funcionários públicos foram detidos por desvio de donativos para vítimas de cheias na província de Gaza, sul de Moçambique, anunciaram hoje as autoridades locais.
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[2026-02-28 04:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: For the first time in recent history, more Americans now sympathize more with the Palestinians than the Israelis, a Gallup poll has found. According to the survey, sympathy for the Israeli cause has fallen a record 10% in the last year.
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[2026-02-28 04:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Os Estados Unidos autorizaram nesta sexta-feira (27/02) a saída de funcionários não essenciais de sua embaixada em Israel em meio à ameaça de ataque americano contra o Irã e também recomendou que seus cidadãos não viajem ao país. Já o Ministério das Relações Exteriores do Reino Unido retirou "temporariamente" sua equipe diplomática de Teerã, movimento seguido pela China.
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[2026-02-28 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Across Iranian cities, many are living through sleepless nights and anxious days amid the continued speculation that the United States could be about to carry out military strikes.
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[2026-02-28 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will visit Israel around the time of Independence Day, in the second half of April, Globes has learned. During last month's CES annual trade show in Las Vegas, Huang had said that he expects to visit Israel soon.
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[2026-02-28 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In Israel, we are trained from childhood to understand what “home front” means. Where is the safe room? How many seconds do I have to reach it? Are we following Home Front Command instructions during a missile alert?
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[2026-02-28 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: After St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, the last hostage recovered from Gaza, was finally buried in Israel, it was the mother of freed hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal who spoke for millions of Jews around the world when she uttered the words “We are one people with one heart.”
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[2026-02-28 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin released a video message Friday in light of concerns about escalation with Iran, assuring that the military is "aware of the uncertainty and the tension felt by the public."
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[2026-02-28 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Some of Iran's most highly enriched uranium was stored in an underground area of its nuclear site in Isfahan, according to a report from UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The report was sent to member states on Friday, according to Reuters.
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[2026-02-28 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Palestinian and Israeli activists from the left-wing Israeli group Looking the Occupation in the Eye were attacked on Friday by masked Israelis in the West Bank village of Qusra.
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[2026-02-28 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel's Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the government from shuttering the Gaza operations of dozens of aid organizations, which petitioned the court in a dispute over new Israeli rules requiring them to name Palestinian staff.
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[2026-02-28 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Pela primeira vez, os habitantes dos EUA afirmam simpatizar mais com os palestinos do que com os israelenses, de acordo com uma pesquisa do instituto Gallup divulgada nesta sexta-feira (27/02). A mudança de opinião ocorreu em meio à guerra que dilacerou a Faixa de Gaza, deixando mais de 70 mil palestinos mortos.
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[2026-02-28 03:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dolientes cargan el cuerpo del policía palestino Khaled Al-Zayan, asesinado en un ataque militar israelí, durante su funeral en Jan Yunis, al sur de la Franja de Gaza, el viernes 27 de febrero de 2026. (Foto AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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[2026-02-28 03:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Newly uncovered documents dating from the 1948 Nakba that saw the creation of the state of Israel reveal the extent to which Zionist fighters were ordered to "annihilate" civilians and their villages.
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[2026-02-28 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Iranian government allowed universities to reopen for in-person classes for only five days after weeks of nationwide protests that were violently suppressed. On Thursday, one university after the other announced that classes would again move online.
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[2026-02-28 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ARCHIVO – El director general del Organismo Internacional de Energía Atómica (OIEA), Rafael Grossi, en una reunión con el ministro egipcio de Exteriores Badr Abdelatty y su homólogo iraní Abbas Araghchi en el palacio Tahrir en El Cairo, el martes 9 de septiembre de 2025. (AP Foto/Khaled Elfiqi, Archivo)
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[2026-02-28 03:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Karim Parwizi, member of the leadership council of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, PDKI, gives an interview in Irbil, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Rashid Yahya)
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[2026-02-28 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States must drop its “excessive demands” in nuclear talks with Iran to achieve a successful outcome, the Iranian foreign minister has said, as the US embassy in Jerusalem granted permission to nonemergency staff members to leave Israel amid fears of a regional war.
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[2026-02-28 03:18 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-02-28 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US and Iran have concluded their third round of indirect nuclear negotiations in Geneva, with both sides describing the discussions as the most intensive yet. Mediated by Oman, the talks produced an agreement to continue technical-level consultations in Vienna starting Monday, followed by another political round within the week.
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[2026-02-28 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump saluda al primer ministro israelí Benjamin Netanyahu al final de una conferencia de prensa en Mar-a-Lago, el 29 de diciembre de 2025, en Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Foto/Alex Brandon, Archivo)
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[2026-02-28 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: After the third round of indirect US-Iran talks held in Geneva on Thursday, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi - who was the chief mediator - cited "significant progress" - which echoed the generally positive assessment of the Iranian side.
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[2026-02-28 02:18 UTC+10:00] [Defense and Military Forces] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Muslims in Gaza Observe Ramadan Amid Fragile Cease-Fire Deal1:17
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[2026-02-28 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack landed in Baghdad on Friday for “government formation talks” with top officials, sources told The National.
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[2026-02-28 01:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The US embassy in Israel has told some non-emergency staff that they can leave the country amid heightened concerns about the risk of war with Iran.
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[2026-02-28 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: About 100,000 Palestinian worshippers have prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem for the second Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, despite Israel imposing severe restrictions on access to the holy site.
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[2026-02-28 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has accused Israel of seeking to impose a “permanent demographic change” in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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[2026-02-28 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In the wake of the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel there have been major changes in the Middle East. Israel fought a multi-front war against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian proxies. In addition, Israel directly confronted Iran.
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