Topic: Middle East — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-25 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The estimates of defense deals which Israel and India are expected to sign as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Jerusalem are eye-popping with some reaching between $8-10 billion, when also consulting Indian media.
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[2026-02-25 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US State Department condemned Hamas for destroying the tents of Gazans who refused to pay taxes in a Sunday post on X/Twitter in response to an undated video circulating online appearing to show Hamas's "Sahm" (Arrow) Unit terrorizing and extorting civilians.
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[2026-02-25 23:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranians, like other people in the Middle East, are preparing for the possibility of war. This comes after weeks of US-Iran tensions.
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[2026-02-25 22:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli forces responded to arson attempts allegedly conducted by extremist settlers in the West Bank on Tuesday, the IDF said.
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[2026-02-25 22:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought a "message of partnership" to Israel on Wednesday as he welcomed the Gaza peace plan as a route out of the conflict.
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[2026-02-25 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-02-25 22:34 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Dependents of officials posted in Israel and Lebanon have been directed to leave by the Australian government, as tensions in the Middle East heighten again.
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[2026-02-25 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In his State of the Union address Trump said his preference was to use diplomacy in dealing with Iran. But, he added, “I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror — which they are, by far — to have a nuclear weapon.”
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[2026-02-25 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli court overturned the conviction of an officer who assaulted a Palestinian photojournalist in 2023, citing that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of responding to the 7 October attacks.
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[2026-02-25 22:23 UTC+10:00] [State of the Union address] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President claimed during longest ever State of the Union speech that Tehran was building weapons that could strike the US
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[2026-02-25 22:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump offered rare praise to Hamas during his State of the Union address, saying the Palestinian movement had “worked along with Israel” to retrieve the bodies of Israeli captives.
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[2026-02-25 22:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: London, United Kingdom – Legal experts have documented almost 1,000 incidents in which pro-Palestine voices have been allegedly targeted in the United Kingdom, data that they say represents a “systematic effort” to repress the country’s solidarity movement.
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[2026-02-25 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed forging a network of allied nations, including in the Middle East and Africa, to stand against what he called “radical” adversaries, the country’s president is on an official visit to key ally, Ethiopia.
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[2026-02-25 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Eight Iraqi soldiers have been killed in a road accident in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, the Defence Ministry announced on Wednesday.
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[2026-02-25 22:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran’s political and military structures are unique globally, with power concentrated in the supreme leader, who sits at the top of a multi-layered system of elected institutions, unelected bodies and parallel military forces.
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[2026-02-25 22:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Shortly before US President Donald Trump gave his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, senior officials from the US House of Representatives and Senate emerged from a classified briefing on Iran held by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA chief John Ratcliffe.
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[2026-02-25 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Seventeen international aid groups announced they have petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday to allow them to keep operating in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem as the Israeli government's ban on their life-saving work next month nears.
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[2026-02-25 21:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Una mujer cruza una calle mientras las motocicletas pasan en Teherán, Irán, el martes 24 de febrero de 2026. (AP Foto/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-02-25 21:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Starmer is in zugzwang. Mandelson arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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[2026-02-25 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A growing number of countries have warned their citizens in Iran to leave amid the threat of possible strikes by the United States.
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[2026-02-25 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Opposition campaigners claim top figures in regime use state wealth to fund lifestyles counter to those they preach
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[2026-02-25 20:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A number of Palestinians have been injured in separate attacks by the Israeli army and settlers in the Hebron area of the occupied West Bank, amid an escalating wave of state-backed violence as Israel concurrently continues its genocidal war on Gaza.
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[2026-02-25 20:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Cambridge University’s endowment fund has invested more than £140m ($189m) in a fund that owns shares in companies linked to Israeli human rights violations, Middle East Eye can reveal.
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[2026-02-25 20:55 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-02-25 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed or arrested at least 100 fighters from Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) in clashes on Monday as the Shia-Marxist group attempted to carry out operations near Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Tehran headquarters, MEK confirmed.
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[2026-02-25 20:52 UTC+10:00] [US & Canada] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-02-25 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘Going to war with America, Israel and Nato will have very horrible and unpredictable consequences,’ a Tehran resident says
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[2026-02-25 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iranian state TV released on Tuesday a video showing the country’s Revolutionary Guard holding a drill that included launching missiles, flying drones and firing guns at targets along its coast, without elaborating on the exact time or place of the exercise.
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[2026-02-25 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US military’s EC-130H Compass Call aircraft has entered the Middle East, aviation experts reported on Tuesday.
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[2026-02-25 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Defense-minded Israelis were watching US President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech avidly for mentions of the word "Iran," but also more specifically, for the words "ballistic missiles."
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[2026-02-25 20:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived in the Middle East for their first international trip together in 18 months.
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[2026-02-25 20:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Clashes between Syrian internal security forces and a militia linked to the ousted government of Bashar al-Assad have left at least four people dead in the Alawite-majority coastal province of Latakia, marking a significant escalation in the new government’s fight to stabilise a nation emerging from years of ruinous civil war.
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[2026-02-25 19:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Egypt on Tuesday urged the international community to better support Lebanon's armed forces as the country moves forward with a plan to disarm the militant group Hezbollah and bring all weapons under state control.
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[2026-02-25 19:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As I write these sentences, a massive military buildup - instigated by Israel and its American agents, and mobilised by US President Donald Trump - is encircling Iran for a decisive operation.
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[2026-02-25 19:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Baghdad International Airport was temporarily closed on Wednesday due to a technical issue, Iraq's Ministry of Transport said.
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[2026-02-25 18:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two full years have passed since the mysterious disappearance of the young Ethiopian girl Haymanut Kasau from Safed, with little progress made in the case.
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[2026-02-25 18:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to arrive in Israel on Wednesday for a two-day state visit that will take him from the tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport to the halls of the Knesset, through a Jerusalem innovation showcase, and into the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem.
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[2026-02-25 18:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Saudi Arabia recorded its widest quarterly budget deficit in five years in the final three months of 2025, as lower crude oil prices weigh down the kingdom's finances, Bloomberg is reporting.
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[2026-02-25 18:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel’s peripatetic President Isaac Herzog is on the move again. Barely two weeks after his return from Australia, Herzog began a two-day state visit to Ethiopia on Tuesday.
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[2026-02-25 18:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to meet with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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[2026-02-25 17:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: JPMorgan Chase said it will remove the UAE from its emerging-market bond indexes by June after the Middle Eastern nation exceeded the bank’s measures of wealth for three successive years.
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[2026-02-25 17:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has told Congress that he would prefer to resolve differences with Tehran through diplomacy, while laying out his case for potential attacks on Iran, which he claimed was seeking to develop missiles that could strike the US mainland.
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[2026-02-25 17:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: As the United States continues to threaten military action against Iran, Iranians are anxiously awaiting a new round of talks set to take place in Geneva this week.
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[2026-02-25 16:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Israel this week for a state visit on Wednesday, his second visit to the country and a rare high-level moment that comes after months of visible movement in the bilateral relationship.
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[2026-02-25 16:42 UTC+10:00] [Australian Capital Territory (ACT)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Criminal proceedings will not follow as posters ‘satisfied certain aspects’ of the hate symbol legislation but not others
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[2026-02-25 16:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US Embassy in Israel on Tuesday announced that it would, for the first time, provide consular services to American citizens at pop-up locations in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-02-25 16:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ofrece su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión ante un pleno del Congreso en la Cámara de Representantes, en el Capitolio federal en Washington, el martes 24 de febrero de 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
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[2026-02-25 16:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Why are israel and india getting closer?
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[2026-02-25 16:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TOKIO (AP) — El gobierno de Japón dijo el miércoles que un ciudadano japonés permanece detenido en Teherán desde enero y exigió a las autoridades iraníes que lo liberen rápidamente.
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[2026-02-25 16:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Japan’s Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Masanao Ozaki speaks during a press conference during the prime minister’s office in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. (Kyodo News via AP)
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