Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-07 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Israel Defense Forces killed several Hamas terrorists who posed a threat to troops in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
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[2026-05-07 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. airlines spent 56.4% more on jet fuel in March, the month after the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran began, than they did in February, U.S. government data released Wednesday show.
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[2026-05-07 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Russia had decided to reject efforts to halt fighting and save lives by launching fresh attacks on Ukraine, which had called a unilateral ceasefire.
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[2026-05-07 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Russia had decided to reject efforts to halt fighting and save lives by launching fresh attacks on Ukraine, which had called a unilateral ceasefire.
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[2026-05-07 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman as the next Mossad director, set to replace David Barnea on June 2. Barnea’s legacy is already sealed, and his name will remain tied to one of the most consequential phases in the long war against the Islamic terrorist regime ruling Tehran.
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[2026-05-07 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: CNN’s Abby Phillip and Van Jones tangled Tuesday night over Democratic efforts to scrutinize Israel’s nuclear capabilities as the Jewish state battles Iran.
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[2026-05-07 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BANGKOK — Southeast Asia’s joint effort to tackle global issues, such as an energy crisis caused by the war in the Middle East, is complicated by internal friction over tension between Thailand and Cambodia and civil war in Myanmar, a senior Cambodian diplomat said on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-07 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: On Monday, Reuters reported that US intelligence estimates that Iran was one year away from a nuclear weapon have not changed much since after the June 2025 Iran war, despite the recent 2026 Iran war.
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[2026-05-07 01:51 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Latest proposal, derided by Tehran as a ‘wishlist’, could yet be a way out – but with 5,000 dead, it comes at an awful price
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[2026-05-07 01:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Israeli military issued forced displacement orders for a dozen Lebanese towns and villages on Wednesday, including in the Bekaa Valley.
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[2026-05-07 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli army chief of staff Eyal Zamir visited southern Lebanon and said Israeli forces were continuing operations against Hezbollah.
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[2026-05-07 01:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar has filed a legal complaint in Paris, accusing former Unifil official General Philippe Sidos of “apology for war crimes” over comments he made about the killing of one of the paper’s journalists, Amal Khalil.
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[2026-05-07 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: With the smoke and blockades disguising what’s actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz, Rick Sanchez decided to shed some light on the situation. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday paused Project Freedom – the military operation launched a day earlier to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz – citing the “tremendous military success” of the campaign.However, Rick’s assessment is that Tehran still holds the strategic edge.
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[2026-05-07 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: With the smoke and blockades disguising what’s actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz, Rick Sanchez decided to shed some light on the situation. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday paused Project Freedom – the military operation launched a day earlier to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz – citing the “tremendous military success” of the campaign.However, Rick’s assessment is that Tehran still holds the strategic edge.
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[2026-05-07 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is currently in Beijing meeting with his Chinese counterpart, FM Wang Yi, and the timing of the visit sends a resounding message to Washington and the West. The highly anticipated Trump-Xi meeting is still scheduled for next week, expected for May 14-15, though there has been ample speculation the ongoing events of the unpredictable Iran war and Hormuz Strait crisis could derail the trip at the last minute.
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[2026-05-07 01:15 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late night hosts focused on Trump’s Iran war, the latest Maga AI meme and Cinco de Mayo celebrations
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[2026-05-07 01:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: An anti-war protester who scaled a bridge in Washington and stayed there for five days came down during a heavy rainstorm on Wednesday after running out of water.
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[2026-05-07 01:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli army chief of staff Eyal Zamir visited southern Lebanon and said Israeli forces were continuing operations against Hezbollah.
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[2026-05-07 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Yisrael Beitenu leader MK Avidgor Liberman launched a new campaign on Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming elections, calling for a decisive military outcome on all fronts and vowed that he would not sit in a government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “even if the world turns upside down.”
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[2026-05-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Nithya Raman went to war Tuesday night in a blistering mayoral debate that exploded into a public brawl over crime, homelessness, police staffing and who voters should blame for Los Angeles spiraling deeper into chaos.
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[2026-05-07 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Justin Baldoni scored a “huge victory” by settling his legal war with Blake Lively, according to his lawyer, Bryan Freedman.
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[2026-05-07 00:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Pentagon has announced that they employ specialized energy weapons for defense, seemingly vindicating researchers who’d long warned about the tech.
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[2026-05-07 00:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The deranged White House Correspondents Dinner shooting suspect, Cole Allen, may have been triggered by the Iran war when he stormed the event and allegedly tried to assassinate President Trump and other top administration officials, according to a new Department of Homeland Security intelligence report.
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[2026-05-07 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 30, 2026, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced sharp partisan attacks from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and other Democrats, underscored a troubling reality: the politicization of national security.
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[2026-05-07 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Art & design] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Angry protesters have blockaded the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in a deafening riot against the war in Ukraine, bringing a political confrontation into the glamorous global art fair.
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[2026-05-07 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The highly manoeuvrable weapon is nearly invulnerable to interception and could sink an aircraft carrier with a single hit
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[2026-05-07 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Patriot PAC-3] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The highly manoeuvrable weapon is nearly invulnerable to interception and could sink an aircraft carrier with a single hit
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[2026-05-06 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: State Duma member Vitaly Milonov, notorious for his conservative and anti-Western views, as well as being among the lawmakers behind Russia’s so-called “gay propaganda law,” has come out in defense of high school students who want to play foreign music at graduation events.
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[2026-05-06 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: State Duma member Vitaly Milonov, notorious for his conservative and anti-Western views, as well as being among the lawmakers behind Russia’s so-called “gay propaganda law,” has come out in defense of high school students who want to play foreign music at graduation events.
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[2026-05-06 23:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The defense for former senator Ramon Revilla Jr. hoped for the best as it waited for the court ruling on his petition for bail.
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[2026-05-06 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two IDF soldiers were wounded on Wednesday when Hezbollah terrorists launched explosive drones and rockets towards troops operating in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-06 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Vietnam's President To Lam and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for a photo at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on May 6. © Reuters
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[2026-05-06 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday, as efforts to broker a peace deal between Tehran and Washington pick up pace amid the United States president’s announcement of a pause on attempts to forcibly open the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-06 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Although he may not be leading in the polls, it’s clear that Spencer Pratt is winning the media war in the race to become LA’s next mayor. And if the former reality star makes it into the mayoral run-off following the June 2 primary, the release of his “They Not Like Us” campaign ad will be remembered as the fulcrum moment.
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[2026-05-06 23:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum Wednesday for Iran to accept a deal to end the war or face renewed, more intense US bombing, in the latest of a series of abrupt policy shifts.
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[2026-05-06 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: WTI futures plunged more than 11% to the $90-a-barrel level after Axios reported earlier this morning that the U.S. is nearing a preliminary agreement with Iran to end the war. The sharp decline suggests traders are beginning to price in a potential geopolitical de-escalation and the potential reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint.
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[2026-05-06 23:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said the military operation to guide stranded merchant ships through the Strait of Hormuz will be paused just two days after he announced it.
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[2026-05-06 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Burkina Faso's military rulers ordered on Tuesday the dissolution of around 200 associations, the latest clampdown on civic groups in the west African country.
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[2026-05-06 23:28 UTC+10:00] [Airlines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Lufthansa is preparing to introduce refueling stopovers if destination airports run short of jet fuel due to the war in the Middle East, the airline group's CEO said on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-06 23:15 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Islamabad/Washington/Tel Aviv: The United States and Iran are closing in on an agreement on a one-page memorandum to end the war in the Gulf, a source from mediator Pakistan and another source briefed on the mediation said.
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[2026-05-06 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Zuhur Tarwa stood in shock as Israeli army markers appeared across her vineyard, declaring it confiscated.
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[2026-05-06 22:58 UTC+10:00] [Pope Leo XIV] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Pontiff responds after US president accuses him of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with stance on Iran war
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[2026-05-06 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Beginning on Thursday, the time required to reach a shelter from the onset of a siren will be extended for several communities in northern Israel, the IDF announced.
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[2026-05-06 22:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Activists from FEMEN and Pussy Riot staged a protest in Venice ahead of the Venice Biennale, using smoke flares and slogans to denounce Russia’s return. The demonstration took place as journalists gathered before the event, which runs from 9 May to 22 November, and reflects wider tensions between artistic openness and political responsibility.
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[2026-05-06 22:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz will be ensured as the United States threats end and with new procedures in place, the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said, after the US said it was pausing operations to help stranded ships pass through the waterway.
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[2026-05-06 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Last week, the White House’s official rapid response account on X posted a graphic from a pro-Israel think tank, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), alongside text falsely claiming that Tehran’s uranium enrichment accelerated due to the loosening of sanctions under former United States President Joe Biden.
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[2026-05-06 22:37 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — After Russia broke the ceasefire Ukraine had declared for Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv considers itself freed from the unilateral truce declared by the Kremlin ahead of Saturday's Victory Day parade in Moscow.
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[2026-05-06 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Japan's defense minister pledges to deepen military cooperation with the Philippines during a visit to Manila, aiming for the 'early transfer' of Abukuma-class destroyers to the archipelago. Shinjiro Koizumi's visit comes as a contingent of 1,400 Japanese personnel participated for the first time in the annual US-Philippine military exercises, and just weeks after Tokyo eased decades-old arms export rules in a major policy shift.
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[2026-05-06 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Oil prices slumped more than 10 per cent on Wednesday after reports that the US and Iran are nearing a deal to end the war that has strangled a fifth of global oil and gas supplies.
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[2026-05-06 22:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US equity futures are up big this morning and making fresh all time highs, led by tech companies, while oil prices and bond yields fell sharply on optimism that the US and Iran are nearing a peace deal. As of 8:00am Nasdaq 100 futures jumped 1.7% while those for the S&P 500 gained 1%, with both gauges set to build on record highs.
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