Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-09 05:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Pentagon said the U.S. military launched “self-defense strikes” on Iranian targets on Thursday after “unprovoked” attacks from the Islamic republic on U.S. Navy vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-09 05:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Aung San Suu Kyi has not had access to her family or lawyer since being imprisoned by the military. (Reuters: Ann Wang)
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[2026-05-09 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump announced Friday that the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and a major prisoner swap. He hailed in a Truth Social post that this could be the "beginning of the end" of the long war between them.
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[2026-05-09 05:04 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine War] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-09 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Despite Trump's disdain for his allies, the significant damage to US bases and military assets in the Middle East that are increasingly being reported means his military's physical options now seem more constrained. (Reuters: Eduardo Munoz)
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[2026-05-09 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US attacks on Iranian oil tankers were a “violation of the ceasefire and American terrorism,” said an Iranian military source, according to a report by semi-official Tasnim News.
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[2026-05-09 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose face and anti-war messaging were plastered on Iranian regime missiles in March (according to footage distributed by Iranian state Tasnim News Agency) and who regularly receives direct thanks and praise from Hamas, is in the news again, posturing against Israel. This time, he is calling the detention of two Global Sumud Flotilla members “kidnapping” and demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu return a Spanish citizen “illegally detained.”
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[2026-05-09 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The War Department dumped 162 declassified files on Friday that show thousands of “flying saucers” reported in our skies since the 1940s.
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[2026-05-09 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-05-09 04:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump said Friday that Ukraine and Russia will embark on a three-day cease-fire that could be the “beginning of the end” of the more than four-year-old war — as both nations pause to celebrate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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[2026-05-09 04:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Friday announced a three-day ceasefire in the Ukraine war ahead of Russia’s annual Victory Day parade.
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[2026-05-09 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — Russia and Ukraine traded attacks Friday, with a two-day unilateral ceasefire that Moscow had declared around its World War II commemorations appearing to be in tatters.
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[2026-05-09 04:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-05-09 04:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A US military aircraft had a freaky chase encounter with a “super-hot” orb during a nighttime search mission just last year, the newly released UFO files show.
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[2026-05-09 04:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump walks through the Colonnade of the White House as he arrives to attend a luncheon for mothers Friday, May 8, 2026, in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-09 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump says there will be a three-day ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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[2026-05-09 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has announced a three-day ceasefire and a major prisoner swap between Moscow and Kiev, expressing hopes the truce would become the “beginning of the end of a very long, deadly, and hard fought war.”
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[2026-05-09 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 8 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday raised questions about allies' lack of support for the United States' military efforts to address Iran's nuclear ambitions and reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-09 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Secondary school students wave the Kuwaiti flag as they gather in the grounds of the Fajr al-Sabah School to attend in-person classes in Kuwait City on May 3, 2026. High school students resumed in-person classes after a suspension of more than two months following military strikes launched by the US and Israel against Iran that killed its supreme leader, triggering a war that spread across the Middle East and prompting the Kuwaiti Education Ministry to implement remote learning for students.
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[2026-05-09 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-05-09 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: I have travelled to the UAE countless times, in various capacities – privately, as Austria’s foreign minister and later as my country’s chancellor. In recent years, I have spent about one week per month here, even establishing an office in Abu Dhabi. In many ways, it has become a second home.
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[2026-05-09 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Greek military is examining a mysterious unmanned naval drone spotted in the Ionian Sea by local fishermen.
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[2026-05-09 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — America’s employers delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month despite an economic shock from the Iran war.
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[2026-05-09 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israeli air raids have killed at least 20 people in southern Lebanon, including a civil defence rescuer, according to Lebanese state-run media, despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
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[2026-05-09 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A fan sings while waiting for the start the South Korean band BTS concert, in Mexico City, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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[2026-05-09 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army's chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, has recommended Barak Hiram, a senior commander who was responsible for deadly attacks in Gaza and for Israeli forces firing tank shells at an Israeli home during the 7 October attacks, for the post of military secretary to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-05-09 03:09 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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[2026-05-09 03:09 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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[2026-05-09 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Washington joined Israel’s war against Iran despite intelligence assessments that the Islamic Republic was not developing nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump’s former counterterrorism chief, Joe Kent, has said.
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[2026-05-09 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Washington joined Israel’s war against Iran despite intelligence assessments that the Islamic Republic was not developing nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump’s former counterterrorism chief, Joe Kent, has said.
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[2026-05-09 02:55 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — MPs from Britain’s governing Labour party despair at what they brand a lack of decisiveness from their leader. Fortunately for Keir Starmer, they can’t decide what to do about it.
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[2026-05-09 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israeli strikes on Friday killed at least 18 people in Lebanon, including two paramedics, as it continued to carry out attacks across the country's south despite a ceasefire announced on April 16.
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[2026-05-09 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, has condemned recent US military action against Iranian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, warning against what he described as escalating behaviour.
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[2026-05-09 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ARMED Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. on Friday defended the firing of American and Japanese missile systems in the Philippines, saying Philippine troops need training on modern weapons “we can get our hands on.”
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[2026-05-09 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TAIPEI — Taiwan’s legislature on Friday approved a $25-billion defense spending bill that opposition lawmakers say will be used for United States weapons, following months of political wrangling.
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[2026-05-09 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An LA City Hall plot to strip cops of powers to detain drivers for traffic violations and let civilians do it is “extremely dangerous,” top officers have warned.
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[2026-05-09 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: COLOMBO — Vietnam's President To Lam called for deeper defense and trade ties with Sri Lanka on Friday, noting the South Asian island's strategic position in the Indian Ocean.
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[2026-05-09 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: JAPAN’s security courtship of the Philippines carries a deep historical irony. During World War II, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded and occupied the country, leaving behind memories of massacres, forced labor, repression, destruction, displacement, and the sexual enslavement of Filipino “comfort women.” Yet in the postwar era, Japan returned not as an occupier, but as a leading development partner.
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[2026-05-09 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Small and midsize Japanese manufacturers face a grim earnings outlook. (Photo by Kotaro Igarashi)
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[2026-05-09 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-09 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: FIRST, we got hit by a double whammy of Covid-19 and Pharmally. Second, we reel from the spillover ravages of the Iran war after waking up to find flood control grafters had robbed us of our taxes. Both pairs of calamities sank the economy to new lows that left everyone worse off, especially the poor.
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[2026-05-09 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army's chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, has recommended Barak Hiram, a senior commander who was responsible for deadly attacks in Gaza and for Israeli forces firing tank shells at an Israeli home during the 7 October attacks, for the post of military secretary to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-05-09 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: At least five people have been killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, according to the National News Agency.
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[2026-05-09 01:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iranian women walk past American artist Roy Lichtenstein’s “Brattata” as they visit an exhibition called: “Art & war” displaying some artworks of American pop artists at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-05-09 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Belying the Trump administration's claims that a US blockade on Iran's use of the Strait of Hormuz has the country on the ropes and its oil infrastructure in near-term peril, a confidential CIA analysis says Iran can persevere another three or four months, if not longer. In a second stark contradiction of White House narratives, US intelligence assesses that the bulk of Iran's pre-war missile inventory is still intact.
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[2026-05-09 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States Department of Defense has released its first tranche of previously classified files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), following an order from US President Donald Trump in February.
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[2026-05-09 01:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Virginia’s top court has thrown out a new electoral map that was crafted to flip four Republican-held US congressional seats to Democrats, handing President Donald Trump’s party a victory in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
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[2026-05-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-05-09 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Some 30 vessels from the Gaza-bound flotilla that set sail from Crete are now heading toward Turkey, according to flotilla organizers, a week after the Israeli Navy intercepted more than 20 boats and detained activists involved in the mission.
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[2026-05-09 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US forces disabled two Iranian-flagged oil tankers attempting to violate the US blockade by firing precision munitions into their smokestacks, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Friday.
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