Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-18 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Pete Davidson’s pals are coming to his defense after his ex Elsie Hewitt publicly asked for help caring for their infant daughter days after news of their split surfaced.
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[2026-05-18 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two United States F-18 military aircraft collided mid-air during an airshow in Idaho on Sunday, local media reported.
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[2026-05-18 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Russian capital has just suffered possibly its single biggest and deadliest Ukrainian drone attack of the war - and certainly the largest attack wave on Moscow in the last year. It ironically comes exactly a week after President Zelensky signed on to a three day Russian 'Victory Day' ceasefire at the behest of President Trump.
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[2026-05-18 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Cuba has more than 300 military drones and has discussed using them to attack the southernmost point of the US's continental territory, the US base in Guantanamo Bay, and American ships in the Caribbean, Axios reported on Sunday, citing US intelligence.
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[2026-05-18 05:33 UTC+10:00] [Middle East and north Africa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Abu Dhabi denounces ‘dangerous escalation’ as Iran war ceasefire grows more precarious
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[2026-05-18 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Emergency crews responded Sunday to an incident involving aircraft during a weekend air show at a military base in western Idaho, officials said.
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[2026-05-18 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Turkish flotilla of 53 vessels, organized by the IHH, the same group behind the Mavi Marmara flotilla, is reportedly en route to Israel.
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[2026-05-18 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The wildly popular Brooklyn Storehouse event space announced Friday that it would put on its last show this fall amid a continuous business divorce between its longtime owners.
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[2026-05-18 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Natural Resources
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[2026-05-18 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-05-18 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: After two-and-a-half years of unceasing war, the IDF is short thousands of combat soldiers. It cannot afford to forgo the service of women, whether on the home front or the front line. It cannot afford to forgo the service of religious soldiers in any combat unit. And yet, extremist rabbis are calling for women to be removed from the IDF, or at the very least reassigned to noncombatant roles.
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[2026-05-18 04:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mon 18 May 2026 at 4:46am
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[2026-05-18 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A fragile ceasefire means the Iran conflict is largely a war of words right now — but its impact is still being felt in every corner of the globe.
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[2026-05-18 04:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ABUJA — At least 17 police officers were killed in Nigeria’s northeast Yobe state after suspected Islamist militants attacked a specialised military school that also trains police officers, the national police spokesman said late on Saturday.
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[2026-05-18 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s Health Emergency Operations Center at the Ministry of Public Health released a preliminary toll following Israeli raids on several towns in southern Lebanon, according to the National News Agency.
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[2026-05-18 04:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israeli forces had targeted and killed the head of Hamas’s “military wing” Izz al-Din al-Haddad, calling him the “chief murderer” and a key figure behind the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
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[2026-05-18 03:55 UTC+10:00] [Israel-Iran war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Na semana passada, observadores assíduos de armas na internet identificaram o que parecia ser um sistema de laser de fabricação chinesa no aeroporto de Dubai, nos Emirados Árabes Unidos. Os lasers estão montados em um veículo e supostamente são capazes de derrubar drones.
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[2026-05-18 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The concept of an energy war has long been confined to the strategic manipulation of pipelines or the imposition of economic sanctions. But today, it has mutated into something far more visceral and visible.
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[2026-05-18 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Anthropic has restricted access to Claude Mythos, a powerful AI tool that can discover vulnerabilities in major operating systems, over the cybersecurity risks it poses. (Photo by Suzu Takahashi)
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[2026-05-18 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service will grant access to the files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, after years of rejecting repeated requests by historians who sought to see if the German death camp doctor spent time in Zurich when there was an international arrest warrant against him.
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[2026-05-18 03:23 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-05-18 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has warned Iran the "clock is ticking" as talks to bring the war to an end have stalled.
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[2026-05-18 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air strikes on Khan Younis and Gaza City have killed one person and wounded several others, according to local reports.
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[2026-05-18 02:30 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Wave of almost 600 drones launched across 14 regions, after Moscow’s deadly three-day attack on Ukraine last week
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[2026-05-18 02:26 UTC+10:00] [Cuba] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Buoyed by his removal of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, the US president is intensifying an economic stranglehold and military menace
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[2026-05-18 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel’s military manpower crisis is expected to deepen unless legislation extending mandatory service advances separately from the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill, as the IDF faces a widening gap between wartime operational needs and the number of soldiers available to meet them.
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[2026-05-18 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: It’s only natural to want to applaud the extension of a ceasefire.
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[2026-05-18 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: On Feb. 3, we first asked whether a Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 was quietly taking shape on the collapsed, communist-run Caribbean island of Cuba.
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[2026-05-18 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT — Israel launched a massive series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, despite an extension of the truce between the two countries.
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[2026-05-18 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-05-18 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: OIL and water, being poles apart, may not mix, but politics, oil and migration do.
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[2026-05-18 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: On April 10, 2024, an Army soldier named Samuel J. Meeks stood beneath a gazebo in Green Cove Springs, Florida, smiling for wedding photographs with a Chinese national he had just married. Four days later, federal prosecutors suggested the ceremony was less a union than a $35,000 security breach.
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[2026-05-18 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Since October 7, 2023, Israel has absorbed wave after wave of missiles and rockets from Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and others. Yet in Washington, critics of the US-Israel relationship insist the response to attacks against an American ally is to cut military aid to the Jewish state.
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[2026-05-18 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — One of Ukraine's largest drone strikes on Russia killed at least four people, including three near Moscow, and wounded a dozen others, local authorities said Sunday. Debris fell on Russia's largest airport without causing damage.
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[2026-05-18 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: It's important for defense-related startups to have owners in countries that are "like-minded" and "trustful," says Helsinki Mayor Daniel Sazonov. (Photo by Subaru Tanaka)
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[2026-05-18 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Donald Trump is asking Congress to suspend the federal gas tax until the Iran war is over.
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[2026-05-18 00:36 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Will Australians spend over $100,000 on a Chinese car?
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[2026-05-18 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A drone appeared to cause a fire near a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates on May 17. Abu Dhabi said that a fire was caused by a drone strike on an electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the Al Dhafra region, the Abu Dhabi Media Office said on Sunday.
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[2026-05-18 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a proposal to establish a Defense Ministry complex on the site of the demolished UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) complex in Jerusalem, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Sunday in a post on X/Twitter.
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[2026-05-18 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: 1920 — Man o’ War, ridden by Clarence Kummer, wins the Preakness Stakes by 1½ lengths over Upset.
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[2026-05-18 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Sinaloa Senator Enrique Inzunza Cazárez, who is facing drug trafficking and weapon charges, was taken into custody in San Diego by the Drug Enforcement Administration, multiple Mexican news outlets reported on Saturday.
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[2026-05-17 23:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Sun 17 May 2026 at 11:53pm
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[2026-05-17 23:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The killing of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the recently appointed head of Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has dealt a symbolic blow to the Palestinian group in Gaza, but the impact on its military operations is far from certain.
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[2026-05-17 23:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military has said that four of its soldiers were wounded when an explosive device detonated in southern Lebanon overnight.
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[2026-05-17 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Israeli government has approved plans to build a Defence Ministry complex on the former site of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, near Ammunition Hill in East Jerusalem.
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[2026-05-17 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Clashes at a conference in Chinese capital reflect wider tensions that threaten to descend into an economic conflict
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[2026-05-17 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Jens Eskelund] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Clashes at a conference in Chinese capital reflect wider tensions that threaten to descend into an economic conflict
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[2026-05-17 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Studying in Israel comes with its own challenges, especially for olim and lone soldiers balancing academics, military service, and life in a new country.
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[2026-05-17 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: At least four people were killed, including three in the Moscow region, after Ukraine launched its biggest overnight drone attack on the Russian capital in more than a year, local officials said on Sunday.
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[2026-05-17 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel built two secret bases in Iraq's desert during the ongoing war with Iran, The New York Times reported on Sunday morning, citing unnamed Iraqi officials.
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