Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-17 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In Children of the American Jewish Ghetto: Stories of Struggle and Achievement from 1881 through World War I, Chaim Rosenberg has produced a fascinating social history. It is also a reference book recounting the lives and careers of a complete generation of accomplished American Jews, successful in a wide variety of careers and occupations.
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[2026-05-17 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump returned from the spectacle of a Chinese state visit to a less than welcoming U.S. economy — with the military band and garden tour in Beijing giving way to pressure over how to fix America's escalating inflation rate.
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[2026-05-17 13:12 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Right-wing civic group leaders' alleged defamation of comfort women, a euphemism for women victimized by sexual enslavement of Japan during World War II, has been transferred to the prosecution.
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[2026-05-17 13:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Israeli officials believe the military is at its highest level of readiness for a possible resumption of fighting with Iran.
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[2026-05-17 12:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran remains prepared to resume direct military confrontation with the United States if negotiations fail to produce what Tehran considers acceptable outcomes.
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[2026-05-17 11:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump is facing a difficult choice over policy toward Iran after military pressure and diplomatic efforts both failed to produce clear results, CNN reported.
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[2026-05-17 11:50 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) -- US President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing may have produced modest results by the standards of US-China summits but it highlighted a clear benefit for China: after the extremes of last year's trade war, the countries have reverted to their familiar economic and strategic standoff.
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[2026-05-17 11:50 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Israel says leader was architect of Oct.7 attacks
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[2026-05-17 11:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: More than 30 Israeli attacks were reported across southern Lebanon, including air strikes near the coastal city of Tyre and artillery shelling in several border towns.
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[2026-05-17 11:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: One of the biggest mistakes globalists made in their bid for perpetual medical authoritarianism during the Covid pandemic was reveling a bit too much. Numerous high level officials from the WEF, WHO, the Imperial College of London and an army of politicians were giddy with excitement and bragged publicly about all the power they were going to grab as the masses huddled in fear of a virus with a 99.8% average survival rate.
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[2026-05-17 11:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service announced this month that it will reveal previously sealed files on the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, without specifying when, the BBC reported on Saturday.
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[2026-05-17 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-05-17 10:57 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: No renewal notice posted on US Treasury website so far for waiver that had allowed countries such as India to buy Russian seaborne oil. What we know on day 1,544
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[2026-05-17 10:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT, Lebanon — 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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[2026-05-17 10:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah said it launched a “swarm of attack drones” targeting an Israeli military site in northern Israel and carried out more than a dozen additional attacks against Israeli forces.
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[2026-05-17 08:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut – Since U.S. President Donald Trump’s barrage of threats to seize Greenland, authorities on the frozen island have been seeking help from a northern ally: Canada.
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[2026-05-17 08:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cristopher Sanchez delivers during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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[2026-05-17 08:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: It’s been a roller-coaster journey for the Knicks point-of-attack and perimeter defense this season.
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[2026-05-17 07:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Accused terror commander Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi worked through a new Iranian-backed terrorist group that emerged “essentially overnight” after the outset US-Israel war and urged followers to kill President Trump.
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[2026-05-17 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: On the last day of February, when the war with Iran started, my family and I were “stranded” in the French Alps. Our scheduled flight home the next morning was canceled, and within hours we were forced to pivot. I reworked our plans and found an Airbnb that was in close vicinity to a synagogue in Geneva so we could attend a megillah reading for Purim and celebrate, somehow.
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[2026-05-17 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the Eurovision Song Contest took to the stage for the Saturday night final in Vienna, thousands protested outside against Israel’s inclusion, and five countries boycotted the event over the genocidal war on Gaza.
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[2026-05-17 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air strikes on Gaza City and northern areas of the Gaza Strip have killed at least 11 Palestinians and injured more than 60 others over the past 24 hours.
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[2026-05-17 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel appointed Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) CEO Boaz Levy as chairman of the company’s board of directors, marking the first time a serving chief executive of an Israeli government-owned company has also been named chairman of the same company.
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[2026-05-17 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics,
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[2026-05-17 04:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s military said a soldier was killed during combat operations in southern Lebanon on Saturday, raising its total losses to 21 personnel since its war on Lebanon began in early March.
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[2026-05-17 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump gave Tehran another reason to worry Saturday, posting a video clip on his Truth Social showing him ordering a military attack on an Iranian aircraft.
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[2026-05-17 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks killed 18 people and wounded 124 others over the past 24 hours, as bombardment continues across the country.
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[2026-05-17 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned Saturday that the United States would face mounting economic fallout from its "war of choice" against Iran, as both sides appear settled into a long game of waiting to inflict the most severe economic and political damage on the other.
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[2026-05-17 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, returned home to Virginia on Saturday after an 11-month deployment, the longest since the Vietnam War, that saw it support the US war with Iran and the capture of Nicolás Maduro when he was Venezuela’s president.
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[2026-05-17 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An eerie video captures the final hours of the Maldivian Coast Guard diver who died Saturday during a dangerous mission to recover the bodies of the Italian tourists trapped in a deep underwater cave.
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[2026-05-17 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Over the weekend, the IDF struck nearly 100 Hezbollah terror targets and killed Hezbollah terrorists as Israeli troops continue to operate in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-17 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-05-17 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-05-17 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike on the al-Saha neighbourhood in the town of Haboush in southern Lebanon, destroying a home and killing a young man, Muhammad Hassan Jammoul, and his wife, Sakina Muhammad Abbas Makki, Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported.
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[2026-05-17 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-17 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Oops!.. she did it again.
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[2026-05-17 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The UAE tried but failed to persuade neighboring states, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to take part in a coordinated military attack on Iran, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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[2026-05-17 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: One of Russia’s largest explosives plants was torched in an overnight drone blitz Saturday by Ukrainian forces, as Kyiv continues its campaign to target military infrastructure deep behind enemy lines.
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[2026-05-17 02:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Sudan’s army has recaptured a town in southeastern Blue Nile state, a state that has become a focal point in the civil war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that’s been raging for more than three years.
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[2026-05-17 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Flames engulf a vehicle struck by an Israeli strike in a street of Gaza City, Friday, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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[2026-05-17 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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[2026-05-17 01:57 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Three paramedics at health centre among dead, while Israel also says it killed Hamas military chief in Gaza
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[2026-05-17 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hamas has confirmed that Israel killed Izz al-Din al-Haddad, leader of the Qassam Brigades, the group’s armed wing, in Gaza.
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[2026-05-17 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran says lack of trust is the main obstacle in US negotiations
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[2026-05-17 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Lebanon and Israel agreed late on Friday to extend their ceasefire by 45 days after talks between the two delegations at the US State Department, but Israeli strikes continued across southern Lebanon hours after the announcement.
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[2026-05-17 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in a targeted attack on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says, as the army also storms homes amid settler attacks.
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[2026-05-17 01:10 UTC+10:00] [Hawaii] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: FBI director reportedly took a snorkel excursion at site containing remains of more than 1,000 navy sailors and marines
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[2026-05-17 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel. Japan has provided similar ships to Southeast Asian countries in the past. (Japan Coast Guard)
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[2026-05-17 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: For the first time since Canadians started boycotting travel to the US to protest the trade war, trips south of the border have started to pick up — slowly.
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[2026-05-17 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF announced on Saturday that it had killed two Hamas terrorists who had infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre.
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