Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-25 23:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The landlocked West African nation has been ruled by the military since a coup in 2020
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[2026-04-25 23:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On 26 March, Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR) activated a new international freight corridor linking its eastern province ports to the Haditha border crossing with Jordan.
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[2026-04-25 22:54 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi touched down in Islamabad Friday night to negotiate a more lasting truce between Iran and the U.S. following a ceasefire agreement between the two countries.
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[2026-04-25 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Chinese exporters are finally passing on the pain - right as they're experiencing a major shortage of a key industrial material. After years of cutting prices amid overcapacity and cutthroat competition, manufacturers are now raising prices on everything from swimsuits and ski suits to medical syringes and air conditioners. The culprit: the Iran war’s energy shock, which has sent oil-linked input costs skyrocketing and is now rippling straight through to global store shelves.
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[2026-04-25 22:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Software giants are seeing their worst stock performance in years on fears of AI disruption. Now they have a new problem.
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[2026-04-25 22:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon killed four people on Saturday, Lebanon's state news agency reported.
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[2026-04-25 22:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Seven people were killed in two strikes on an apartment building. (AP: Mykola Synelnykov)
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[2026-04-25 22:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The sun rises behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Asghar Besharati)
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[2026-04-25 22:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The U.S. is racing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as Iran threatens one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes, testing a Navy that has recently retired most of its dedicated minesweepers and is now relying on a smaller fleet of unmanned systems to do the job.
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[2026-04-25 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Palestinians mourn over an Al-Tanani family member, killed in an Israeli strike, during their funeral at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Yousef Alzanoun)
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[2026-04-25 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Christianity] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Anti-war, anti-ICE, anti-authoritarian Christians and Catholics are organizing around their faith in opposition to the version claimed by Trump and Hegseth
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[2026-04-25 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A video released to mark the PLA Navy’s anniversary uses wordplay to suggest that a new warship is under construction
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[2026-04-25 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Gerald R. Ford] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A video released to mark the PLA Navy’s anniversary uses wordplay to suggest that a new warship is under construction
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[2026-04-25 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The war of words between Turkey and Israel has intensified in recent weeks, exposing a deepening rift between the two regional powers.
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[2026-04-25 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The next type of aerial system likely to be stockpiled at scale by militaries worldwide is the interceptor drone. We've already seen early evidence of this across Eurasia, with Ukraine selling its interceptor drones to the highest bidder.
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[2026-04-25 21:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Palestinians of the central Gaza Strip area of Deir el-Balah vote in the first municipal elections since the Gaza war, and since the 2006 legislative elections won by the Islamist movement Hamas.
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[2026-04-25 21:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Two British fighter jets that scrambled from a Romanian air base received a green light to shoot down Russian drones flying not far from the border with the NATO country, Romania’s Defense Ministry has said. Romanian and UK officials have stressed that the warplanes never entered Ukraine’s airspace, or opened fire on Russian UAVs.
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[2026-04-25 20:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army attacked the town of Yohmor al-Shafiq in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon with “heavy artillery shelling”, the Lebanese state-run National News Agency reported.
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[2026-04-25 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Some 20 Palestinians successfully breached military checkpoints to enter the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, the IDF said on Saturday afternoon.
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[2026-04-25 20:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: At least seven people were killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight, including five in the central city of Dnipro, where officials said an apartment building was hit.
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[2026-04-25 20:00 UTC+10:00] [NBA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US sanctions tied to Rwanda’s military have prompted a BAL team withdrawal, renewing scrutiny of the NBA’s long-standing partnership
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[2026-04-25 19:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Armed groups have launched coordinated attacks across Mali, including in the capital Bamako, the country's army says.
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[2026-04-25 19:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Militants staged attacks in Mali’s capital Bamako and in several locations in the interior of the country on Saturday morning, the Mali army said, in an apparently coordinated assault involving multiple groups.
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[2026-04-25 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Militants staged attacks in Mali's capital Bamako and in several locations in the interior of the country on Saturday morning, the Mali army said, in an apparently coordinated assault involving multiple groups.
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[2026-04-25 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: This mauled, war-torn, bedraggled, beat-up, battered, and bruised country of ours is now marking 78 years of independence. That doesn’t sound like a long time in the normal run of the global timeline. But, as we all know, life here is so intense. Even without rockets heading this way from a couple of thousand kilometers away, the ambiance across the national social and political scene generally tends to the charged side.
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[2026-04-25 19:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. across the occupied West Bank, including in Al‑Bireh near Ramallah, as Palestinians voted in municipal elections widely seen as one of the few remaining forms of civic participation. Nearly 1.5 million people were eligible, according to the Central Elections Commission. The ballot will determine local councils responsible for services such as water, sanitation and infrastructure, but is taking place under Israeli occupation and pervasive movement restrictions.
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[2026-04-25 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Mali’s army says unidentified armed “terrorist” groups have attacked several military positions in the capital and in the country’s interior.
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[2026-04-25 19:20 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: If you asked Stanley Walsh where he got his Distinguished Conduct Medal – our nation’s second-highest military honour behind the Victoria Cross – he would have told you he found it in a cornflakes box.
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[2026-04-25 19:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An award-winning Jewish filmmaker has urged Arsenal Football Club to reverse its decision to dismiss a long-serving kitman over comments he posted on social media criticising Israel's conduct of its war on Gaza.
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[2026-04-25 19:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Suspected Somali pirates hijacked a fuel tanker off the northeastern coast of Somalia, according to a local official and the British military.
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[2026-04-25 19:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran on Saturday resumed commercial flights from Tehran’s international airport for the first time since the war with the US and Israel began two months ago.
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[2026-04-25 19:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Explosions and sustained gunfire rocked several districts of Mali on Saturday morning, including near the main military base in Kati outside the capital Bamako.
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[2026-04-25 18:47 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: After the solemnity of football’s pre-game Anzac Day service, Essendon fans waved their scarves with the vigour of an army more than just hopeful of causing an upset on the game’s biggest home-and-away stage. Just over two hours later, they were the ones leaving the MCG upset.
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[2026-04-25 18:44 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-04-25 18:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's defence ministry said the United States was seeking a "face-saving" way to exit the war.
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[2026-04-25 18:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this Aug. 22, 2021 file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, service members stand at a doorway as Afghan evacuees prepare to board an aircraft, Aug. 22, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. (Airman 1st Class Kylie Barrow/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)
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[2026-04-25 18:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Palestinians in central Gaza and the occupied West Bank have begun voting in municipal elections, the first local vote held since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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[2026-04-25 18:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army has once again threatened Lebanese residents against returning to their homes in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-04-25 18:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: With large-scale US military action against Iran apparently winding down, it is time for stage two of the campaign against the radical Islamic Republic: knocking the Ayatollahs and the Revolutionary Guards out of power.
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[2026-04-25 18:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A rescue worker clears the rubble after a Russian strike on residential neighbourhood of Dnipro, Ukraine, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Synelnykov)
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[2026-04-25 18:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, visited North Korea to attend the opening ceremony of a memorial museum honoring soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, a Russian report said Saturday.
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[2026-04-25 18:20 UTC+10:00] [Anzac Day] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Uncle Jack Pearson, an army captain, says heckling ‘not in the Anzac spirit’ after welcome to country booed in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth
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[2026-04-25 18:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Dozens of people demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Tunisian journalists union in the capital, Tunis, on Friday demanding press freedom.
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[2026-04-25 18:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with the head of Pakistan's military, Asim Munir, the Iranian embassy in Pakistan said in a post on X on Saturday, as prospects for a second round of direct talks over the weekend between Iran and the U.S. seemed uncertain.
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[2026-04-25 18:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A man on his scooter passes next to an Iranian flag placed in front of a destroyed building, following a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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[2026-04-25 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Books] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar explains why she’ll never stop speaking truth to power
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[2026-04-25 17:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Major US networks have turned a blind eye to an explosive undercover video in which a senior Pentagon official spoke about Ukraine’s rampant corruption and civilian casualties resulting from the war on Iran, O’Keefe Media Group journalist Michael Casey has told RT.
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[2026-04-25 17:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: North Korea on Saturday criticized Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for making a ritual offering to a controversial war shrine in Tokyo, calling it a "challenge to international justice."
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[2026-04-25 17:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF destroyed Hezbollah rocket launchers loaded and aimed towards Israel in three separate locations in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Saturday.
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[2026-04-25 17:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The shipments to Subic Bay and Yokose add to a growing trend of US military fuel heading to regions that typically rely on Mideast supplies
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