Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-20 01:09 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump said the US may need to hit Iran again and he was only an hour away from deciding on a strike before he postponed
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[2026-05-20 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Motorists in the UK have faced higher fuel costs since the US-Israel war with Iran began on 28 February.
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[2026-05-20 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Amid attempts by some in Israeli society to prevent women from serving in combat roles in the IDF, the air force is quietly establishing a special commando unit, similar to the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, composed entirely of female soldiers.
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[2026-05-20 00:49 UTC+10:00] [Drones (military)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Attack marks first time military action has forced a fully operating nuclear power plant to rely on backup generators
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[2026-05-20 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: One Syrian soldier was killed, and a number were wounded by a car bomb that exploded outside a Defense Ministry building in Damascus, the ministry said in a statement carried by state media.
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[2026-05-20 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In a huge and unexpected announcement, amid stalled US-Iran peace talks - which have proven a failure and illusive thus far, NATO now says it could deploy military assets to forcibly reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Per breaking newswires Tuesday late morning:
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[2026-05-20 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In the latest Defense and Tech by the Jerusalem Post podcast, host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Ghil Hardy, VP of Business Development at Cando and the ROM360 initiative.
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[2026-05-20 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: This year’s Cannes Film Festival has had a string of actors, writers and filmmakers speak publicly about the war in Gaza, the broader situation in Palestine and the risks faced by artists who take political positions.
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[2026-05-20 00:15 UTC+10:00] [Spain] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Enthusiasts track down weapon used to fell fleeing Eli Wallach amid preparations for 60th anniversary of film’s release
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[2026-05-20 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Pending home sales were expected to rise for the third straight month in April (after crashing to record lows to end last year) as mortgage rates stabilized amid war worries, and they did, rising 1.4% MoM (better than the 1.0% expected) with March's gains revised higher too.
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[2026-05-20 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli army data has revealed a rise in sexual harassment complaints within the military in 2025, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.
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[2026-05-20 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Sally Rooney] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Irish novelist will publish Intermezzo through November Books after rejecting translation offer from publisher with ties to Israeli military
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[2026-05-20 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: On May 14 and 15, Lebanon and Israel held the third round of direct negotiations in Washington, the first at the level of delegations, after two meetings between the country’s ambassadors. There is a large gap between the two sides, but there was a success when they agreed to extend their so-called ceasefire by 45 days.
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[2026-05-19 23:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A bomb exploded outside a Defense Ministry building in the Syrian capital on Tuesday, killing one soldier and wounding about a dozen other people, the ministry and state media reported.
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[2026-05-19 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States has announced another 30-day extension of a sanctions waiver for countries buying Russian oil and petroleum products currently already loaded on tankers at sea, as global energy markets have been roiled by the US-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-05-19 23:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A Kenyan transport strike triggered by rising fuel prices from to the Middle East war was paused on Tuesday after causing four deaths and major economic disruption, raising concerns about potential wider unrest across Africa.
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[2026-05-19 23:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A man kneels next to the coffins of sisters Liubava and Vira Yakovleva, killed by a Russian rocket strike on a residential building earlier this month, during their funeral, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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[2026-05-19 23:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli army data has revealed a rise in sexual harassment complaints within the military in 2025, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.
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[2026-05-19 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran has warned it will open “new fronts” if the US launches more attacks on the country, after President Donald Trump said he had called off renewed strikes to allow for “serious negotiations” to take place.
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[2026-05-19 22:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The front gate of the east Jerusalem compound of UNRWA is seen in east Jerusalem, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, file)
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[2026-05-19 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump had on Monday announced he agreed to pause planned Iran strikes, which were supposedly going to resume Tuesday, because UAE & Saudi Arabia asked him to as they said the sides are getting close to a deal.
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[2026-05-19 22:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image from an Airbus Defence and Space’s Pléiades Neo satellite shows a fire at an oil refinery on Iran’s Lavan Island, left, and an oil slick in the waters of the Persian Gulf around Shidvar Island, right, April 10, 2026. (Airbus Defence and Space© via AP)
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[2026-05-19 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: More than 3,000 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on Lebanon in the past 11 weeks, with deaths reported on a near-daily basis despite a ceasefire.
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[2026-05-19 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday said the arrest warrant application for him at the International Criminal Court amounts to a “declaration of war” and threatened immediate retaliation against Palestinians.
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[2026-05-19 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich on Tuesday said the arrest warrant application for him at the International Criminal Court amounts to a “declaration of war” and threatened immediate retaliation against Palestinians.
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[2026-05-19 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this image made from video provided by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, Russia’s new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is test launched at an unspecified location in Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
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[2026-05-19 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The two young alleged gunmen who descended upon a San Diego Islamic facility on Monday -- killing three men and themselves -- have been identified, along with early indications of their motives. Police sources have told multiple outlets that 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Velasquez -- driven by hate -- scrawled racist themes on their weapons and carried a gas can emblazoned with a Nazi SS sticker.
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[2026-05-19 22:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: At least one Syrian soldier was killed when a car bomb exploded outside a Defence Ministry building in Damascus on Tuesday, the ministry said.
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[2026-05-19 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Romanian F-16 jet belonging to NATO air policing forces in the Baltics on Tuesday shot down what is believed to have been a Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia, authorities said.
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[2026-05-19 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Iran war and Tehran’s attacks on its neighbours have pushed most parts of the Gulf towards a more assertive defence posture in dealing with the Islamic republic, after years of prioritising engagement.
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[2026-05-19 21:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The navy based its assessment partly on regional partners admiring its newer ships that were deployed in recent joint exercises
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[2026-05-19 21:58 UTC+10:00] [United States] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The navy based its assessment partly on regional partners admiring its newer ships that were deployed in recent joint exercises
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[2026-05-19 21:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Visitors are gathered next to a display of an NSM Naval Strike Missile made by Norwegian company Kongsberg, presented at the Euronaval show, in Le Bourget, North of Paris, France, Wednesday Oct. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
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[2026-05-19 21:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-05-19 21:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Live view from boats that are part of a flotilla attempting to break the Gaza blockade after the Israeli military began intercepting them.
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[2026-05-19 21:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The average price of unleaded petrol has risen to 158.52p a litre, its highest level since the start of the Iran war, according to the RAC.
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[2026-05-19 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Kurdish families who were displaced from northwest Syria in 2018 are returning to their hometowns. This has been a slow process. In 2018, Turkey launched an offensive along with Syrian rebel groups into the Kurdish areas of Afrin. At the time Ankara claimed the Kurdish region was run by “terrorists.” Ankara had pushed several Syrian rebel groups to create the Syrian National Army, essentially a proxy force of Ankara.
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[2026-05-19 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Investigators from Lahav 433 - The National Crime Unit summoned three political, diplomatic, and military reporters from three different news outlets to provide testimony in the “Qatargate” investigation on Monday, The Jerusalem Post confirmed.
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[2026-05-19 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: At least one person was wounded on Tuesday when a drone launched by Hezbollah hit a parked vehicle and exploded in northern Israel without a siren sounding beforehand.
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[2026-05-19 21:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘Relatively advanced’ chips to start entering China in second half, as US is ‘pulling back’ on tariff war and tech decoupling, analysts say
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[2026-05-19 21:30 UTC+10:00] [Joe Biden] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘Relatively advanced’ chips to start entering China in second half, as US is ‘pulling back’ on tariff war and tech decoupling, analysts say
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[2026-05-19 21:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Estonia has shot down an alleged Ukrainian drone over its territory for the first time, the NATO and EU member state’s defense minister, Hanno Pevkur, has said.
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[2026-05-19 21:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Estonia has shot down an alleged Ukrainian drone over its territory for the first time, the NATO and EU member state’s defense minister, Hanno Pevkur, has said.
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[2026-05-19 21:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced Fang’s death, confirming an SCMP report in March
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[2026-05-19 21:01 UTC+10:00] [South China Morning Post] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Chinese Academy of Sciences has announced Fang’s death, confirming an SCMP report in March
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[2026-05-19 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF's Northern Command has destroyed 60% of Hezbollah terror infrastructure in Lebanese villages, including areas where the IDF has operational control in southern Lebanon, a senior IDF Northern Command officer told Walla on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 20:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed Tuesday that the Ukrainian military plans to use Latvian territory as a launching ground for its ongoing drone attacks against Russia, an allegation that officials in the Baltic country quickly dismissed.
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[2026-05-19 20:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, is seeking to survive a primary challenge fueled by President Trump on Tuesday in what has become the most expensive congressional primary in recent history.
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[2026-05-19 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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[2026-05-19 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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