Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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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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[2026-05-17 00:17 UTC+10:00] [Thailand] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Thai authorities say 32 others injured near Makkasan station after freight train strikes bus and fire breaks out
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[2026-05-16 23:55 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-05-16 23:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The group of Italian divers is believed to have died while exploring a cave at a depth of about 50 metres (160 feet) in Vaavu Atoll despite the Maldives’ 30-metre diving limit
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[2026-05-16 23:31 UTC+10:00] [Vaavu Atoll] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The group of Italian divers is believed to have died while exploring a cave at a depth of about 50 metres (160 feet) in Vaavu Atoll despite the Maldives’ 30-metre diving limit
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[2026-05-16 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Global oil inventories are falling at a record pace to compensate for the big supply disruption in the Middle East and they will approach critical levels if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen.
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[2026-05-16 23:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday urged the new graduates of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) to remain loyal to the Constitution and not to remain silent in the face of wrongdoing.
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[2026-05-16 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump's earlier previewed controversial troop cuts for the European continent may already be in progress, and could happen more rapidly than previously thought.
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[2026-05-16 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A United Nations-backed global hunger monitoring agency said on Friday that amid the ongoing civil war in Sudan, millions of people face crisis levels of acute food insecurity.
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[2026-05-16 22:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Sat 16 May 2026 at 10:14pm
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[2026-05-16 22:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defense
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[2026-05-16 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Just when it seemed as if the European energy landscape couldn't get any more fractured, Ankara is stepping up with a massive, off-grid proposal. Bloomberg reports Friday that Turkey has "proposed building a $1.2 billion (€1 billion) fuel pipeline for military use to help meet the energy needs of allies on NATO's eastern European flank, according to people familiar with the matter."
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[2026-05-16 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military has attacked the town of al-Shahabiya in Tyre, a district in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-16 21:20 UTC+10:00] [Sport / NRL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-16 21:07 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Cairo: Israel’s military on Saturday said it had killed the chief of Hamas’ military wing in an air strike on Gaza the previous day, the most senior Hamas official killed by Israel since an October US-backed ceasefire agreement that was meant to halt fighting.
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[2026-05-16 20:58 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Gordon Repinski und das POLITICO-Team nehmen Euch mit durch die Hauptstadt - kurz, präzise, hintergründig. Montags bis freitags ab 5 Uhr.
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[2026-05-16 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israel says it has killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing, one of the architects of the Oct, 7, 2023, attacks that triggered the war in Gaza.
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[2026-05-16 20:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israel said it killed Izz Al Din Al Haddad, Hamas’s leader in Gaza and its military chief, in a strike on Gaza city on Friday, in the most significant Israeli assassination in the strip since the ceasefire in October.
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[2026-05-16 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel carried out strikes in Gaza targeting Hamas’ top military commander, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement. It marked the first attack on a senior official of the militant group since a US-backed deal in October intended to halt fighting in the Palestinian enclave.
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[2026-05-16 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel carried out strikes in Gaza targeting Hamas’ top military commander, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement. It marked the first attack on a senior official of the militant group since a US-backed deal in October intended to halt fighting in the Palestinian enclave.
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[2026-05-16 20:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel has launched another series of air strikes on southern Lebanon, a day after the two countries agreed to extend a ceasefire deal for a further 45 days following talks in Washington – although this ceasefire has never been observed in practice.
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[2026-05-16 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Can you identify the biblical book in which the phrase “Tower of David” appears? Do you know where Theodor Herzl’s coffin lay before it was buried on Mount Herzl? Or what happened to the animals at the Biblical Zoo during the War of Independence?
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[2026-05-16 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Friday targeted the leader of Hamas’ military wing, Israeli officials say, but it wasn’t immediately clear if Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed or injured. Hamas did not immediately acknowledge or comment on the strike.
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[2026-05-16 20:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hamas has not officially confirmed Haddad’s death.
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[2026-05-16 20:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PRESIDENTIAL Peace Adviser Mel Senen Sarmiento on Sunday has instructed the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity (Opapru) to closely coordinate with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and concerned Local Government Units (LGUs) to ensure that former New People's Army (NPA) combatants and non-combatants are provided immediate and necessary support following the recent eruption of Mayon Volcano.
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[2026-05-16 19:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Prosecutors allege that an Iraqi man charged in New York on Friday is a commander linked to an Iran-backed militia who took part in planning dozens of attacks in Europe and the US in response to the Iran war.
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[2026-05-16 19:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Mercedes-Benz is considering engaging in defense production if it would make “business sense,” its CEO Ola Kallenius has told the Wall Street Journal.
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[2026-05-16 19:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Mercedes-Benz is considering engaging in defense production if it would make “business sense,” its CEO Ola Kallenius has told the Wall Street Journal.
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[2026-05-16 18:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on economic issues at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 15, 2026. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-05-16 18:46 UTC+10:00] [Borders] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, initially set to expire Sunday, will be extended by an additional 45 days, the U.S. State Department announced on Friday after two days of talks between Israeli and Lebanese delegations concluded in Washington.
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[2026-05-16 18:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Lebanon has welcomed an agreement with Israel to extend a fragile ceasefire by 45 days beyond Sunday’s deadline following talks in the United States, even as Israeli forces continued attacks on towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-16 17:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Four migrant workers from Bangladesh, two municipal workers, two young Syrians refugees on a motorbike and one paramedic: in only a few days, their bodies have been brought to the Nabih Berri Governmental Hospital in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-16 17:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spain's boycott of the Eurovision song contest over Israel's war in Gaza puts it "on the right side of history", Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Friday, ahead of the final in Austria.
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[2026-05-16 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Opposition Leader Angus Taylor is launching his first attack in Australia’s Climate War 3.0, switching the Liberal’s focus from nuclear energy to coal power, declaring that fossil fuels are an essential element of cutting power bills.
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[2026-05-16 16:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military issued new forced displacement orders for residents of nine towns and villages in southern Lebanon, only hours after Beirut and Israel agreed to extend their ceasefire for another 45 days.
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[2026-05-16 16:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump says that American and Nigerian forces have killed the "second in command of ISIS globally" in a military operation in Africa.
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[2026-05-16 16:10 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Rugby Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-16 16:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed appreciation for what he described as the “moral and logical position” taken by the leader of the world’s Catholics regarding the recent conflict involving Iran, according to Tasnim News Agency.
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[2026-05-16 15:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday urged the new graduates of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) to remain loyal to the Constitution and not to remain silent in the face of wrongdoing.
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[2026-05-16 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Israeli officials remain uncertain whether US President Donald Trump will choose renewed confrontation or pursue further diplomatic talks.
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[2026-05-16 14:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted the northern port in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-05-16 14:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that Iran should not possess a nuclear weapon and stressed that the Strait of Hormuz would remain open.
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