Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-25 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A massive suicide car bomb attack blew up and derailed a train transporting security personnel in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.
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[2026-05-25 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A few months ago David Navazio, founder and CEO of medical supply company Gentell, had never heard of the Strait of Hormuz. But now, the narrow waterway thousands of miles away from the company's headquarters in Yardley, Pennsylvania, is impacting the company's operations in more ways than one.
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[2026-05-25 03:15 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-25 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli air strikes have killed 3,151 people and wounded 9,571 since 2 March, according to a statement carried by the National News Agency.
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[2026-05-25 02:50 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump insists US won’t rush talks with Tehran after rebukes from Republicans, including Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham
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[2026-05-25 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The New York Times has long been notorious for its severe bias and hatred against Israel and the Jewish people.
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[2026-05-25 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company to buy Chinese satellite equipment linked to its drone program, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
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[2026-05-25 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A leading analyst says Tehran will view any generous US offer with suspicion, fearing it could mask preparations for further military action.
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[2026-05-25 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-25 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For years, Shahid Ali and his wife quietly saved money in a small tin box tucked away in their East London home.
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[2026-05-25 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: QUETTA — At least 24 people were killed on Sunday in a blast targeting a train carrying military personnel in Pakistan’s turbulent southwestern province of Balochistan, a senior official said.
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[2026-05-25 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran sought on Sunday to finalize an agreement to formally end the Middle East war after Donald Trump said a proposal that included opening the blockaded Strait of Hormuz was “largely negotiated.”
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[2026-05-25 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LOCAL stocks are expected to trade sideways this week as investors remain cautious amid inflation concerns, the prospects of a further policy tightening, continued weakening of the peso against the US dollar, and the ongoing war in the Middle East.
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[2026-05-25 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — A large ballistic missile attack pounded Kyiv early on Sunday, authorities said, wounding at least five people after Moscow threatened retaliation for strikes in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.
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[2026-05-25 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AMHERST, Massachusetts — Many commentators, including those on the right, have dubbed United States President Donald Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran “Operation Epic Fail”: an extravagant waste of money, military hardware, and lives in the service of an ill-conceived war with ever-changing objectives. Meanwhile, most legal observers consider the operation an illegal act that violates the United Nations Charter’s prohibition on the use of military force except for self-defense or in armed interventions authorized by the UN Security Council.
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[2026-05-25 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-25 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-25 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — As Ukraine rations its limited air defense missiles, it is increasingly betting on the homegrown Lima electronic warfare system to disrupt and redirect Russian drones and missiles.
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[2026-05-25 01:59 UTC+10:00] [US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States was prepared to enter “into very serious talks” about Iran’s nuclear program if Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, signaling that the Trump administration was prepared to accept an interim agreement that didn’t immediately take away Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons.
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[2026-05-25 01:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said Tehran has “solid legal and security reasons for its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz” in comments to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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[2026-05-25 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump, who agreed that Iran's nuclear enrichment sites will be dismantled, he wrote in an X/Twitter post on Sunday.
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[2026-05-25 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A senior Israeli official says Benjamin Netanyahu has told US President Donald Trump that Israel will continue military operations across the region, including in Lebanon, regardless of ongoing negotiations with Iran.
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[2026-05-25 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘We have no sugar, no flour, nothing’. The nation, ravaged by civil war for over a decade, is seeing less and less humanitarian funding
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[2026-05-25 01:29 UTC+10:00] [World Food Programme] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘We have no sugar, no flour, nothing’. The nation, ravaged by civil war for over a decade, is seeing less and less humanitarian funding
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[2026-05-25 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: If one can judge the measure of a hospital by its leadership, Kaplan Medical Center stands apart. Both its CEO, Prof. Tarif Bader, and its Deputy Director, Dr. Alex Tiktinsky, have had extensive experience in the IDF, come from disparate geographical and cultural worlds – Bader is a Druze from Israel’s north, and Tiktinsky hails from Ukraine – and work harmoniously to lead the hospital, whose geographical area includes more than one million Israelis.
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[2026-05-25 01:16 UTC+10:00] [Iowa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As the summer season warms up, long-haul truck drivers lament their bills and vendors worry about raising prices
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[2026-05-25 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Less than two days after President Vladimir Putin vowed revenge for a Ukrainian strike that hit a secondary-school dormitory in the Russian-controlled Luhansk oblast, Russia unleashed a massive, multi-weapon barrage on Kiev early Sunday, one that apparently included the rare use of Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missiles.
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[2026-05-25 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Rachel Arazig sat down and wrote a Facebook post after October 7. She wasn’t sure exactly what she was building.
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[2026-05-25 00:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Ninety-two people who were abducted by jihadi extremists have been rescued by troops in Nigeria’s conflict-battered northeast region, the country’s military said Sunday.
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[2026-05-25 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump on Sunday said talks to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz are proceeding, but urged his negotiating team not to rush into a deal.
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[2026-05-25 00:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Former Saturday Night Live stars Pete Davidson and John Mulaney are pulling back the curtain on one of the show’s less glamorous traditions: convincing celebrity hosts they didn’t totally bomb their monologues.
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[2026-05-25 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Iran's supreme leader, said on Sunday that managing the Strait of Hormuz was Tehran's "legal right" in order to ensure national security.
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[2026-05-25 00:32 UTC+10:00] [French Open 2026] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: No 15 seed beats Russian-born Selekhmeteva 6-2, 6-3
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[2026-05-25 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US military has lost up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the conflict with Iran, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Washington’s entire pre-war fleet and is valued at close to $1 billion, Bloomberg has reported. The bulk of them were destroyed or seriously damaged by Iranian fire, according to the outlet.
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[2026-05-25 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US military has lost up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the conflict with Iran, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Washington’s entire pre-war fleet and is valued at close to $1 billion, Bloomberg has reported. The bulk of them were destroyed or seriously damaged by Iranian fire, according to the outlet.
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[2026-05-25 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: As the second of three Ebola treatment centers was burned in eastern Congo on Saturday, Congolese army soldiers and police in riot gear escorted the ambulances carrying Ebola victims to a Rwampara cemetery. The Red Cross carried out what is referred to as safe and dignified burials – protocols used to bury victims during infectious disease outbreaks – as a crowd stood by, crying as staff carried the coffins of their loved ones.
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[2026-05-25 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Hanan al-Hams was among the 3,000 Palestinians from Gaza scheduled to travel for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in 2024. But her lifelong dream to perform Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam, was shattered by Israel’s war on Gaza, launched on October 7, 2024.
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[2026-05-24 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: World Central Kitchen (WCK) has cut its hot meal distribution in Gaza by half, citing soaring food and fuel costs linked to the wider fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran in February.
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[2026-05-24 22:59 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At least four people died and dozens of others were injured in the attack
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[2026-05-24 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice is set to convene on Tuesday for a follow-up hearing on petitions against the government’s decision to close Army Radio, as Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara argued that the move cannot be viewed as a narrow decision about one military station, but as part of a wider government effort affecting Israel’s free press.
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[2026-05-24 22:41 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Russia has used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile during a mass drone and missile attack on Kyiv that killed at least two people, marking the third time the weapon has been used in the four-year war.The intense aerial assault damaged buildings across the Ukrainian capital, including near government offices, residential buildings, schools, a market and schools, Ukrainian authorities said.
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[2026-05-24 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The British Army covertly took over a disused part of the London Underground in central London to plan a NATO military response to possible future Russian attacks.
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[2026-05-24 22:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s top-ranked player beats Austria’s Lilli Tagger while Ukrainian says her parents’ house was almost hit by a missile earlier in the day
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[2026-05-24 22:13 UTC+10:00] [Marta Kostyuk] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s top-ranked player beats Austria’s Lilli Tagger while Ukrainian says her parents’ house was almost hit by a missile earlier in the day
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[2026-05-24 22:07 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Russia’s military pummeled Kyiv overnight with large-scale drone and missile attack that killed at least two people and injured scores of others, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
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[2026-05-24 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: An integrated digital platform that tracks every step of the process is solving an age-old problem for Chinese forces
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[2026-05-24 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Computer Software Copyright Registration Certificate] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: An integrated digital platform that tracks every step of the process is solving an age-old problem for Chinese forces
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[2026-05-24 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: If you’re looking for the best Memorial Day movies on streaming to watch to honor the victims of war, you’ve come to the right place. After all, Memorial Day is about more than grilling hot dogs and going to the beach—it’s also about staying inside and streaming Memorial Day movies on Netflix!
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[2026-05-24 21:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Half of young people aged 16-29 would never fight for Britain if war broke out, a new opinion poll has revealed. The pollsters summarised young people's attitudes as being "why fight for a country that isn't fighting for you?"
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[2026-05-24 21:44 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: One or two clauses yet to be clarified, Iran officials tell Pakistani mediators, after US says deal ‘largely negotiated’
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