Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-25 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A round detonating inside a tank turret is virtually unheard of. The last time it happened in Japan was in 1979
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[2026-04-25 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Washington is eyeing how to pressure Spain out of the NATO alliance, after the Spanish government has taken firm anti-Israel positions, as well as come out strongly against Trump's Iran war, even disallowing some base and logistics access to the US armed forces.
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[2026-04-25 11:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart in the dead of night. The first, at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, spread a cloud of deadly radiation that raised fears across Europe and shook the very foundations of the Soviet Union. Some say it led to its eventual collapse.
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[2026-04-25 11:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Georgia linebacker CJ Allen (01) speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Feb. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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[2026-04-25 11:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A lack of offense was at the root of the Rangers’ issues this season, but defensively, first-year head coach Mike Sullivan implemented a puck pursuit-heavy system designed to support one another as a five-man unit.
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[2026-04-25 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: After Lee Jae Myung’s recent visit to New Delhi touting expanded bilateral cooperation, Beijing is likely to be uneasy, analysts say
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[2026-04-25 11:00 UTC+10:00] [K9 Thunder] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: After Lee Jae Myung’s recent visit to New Delhi touting expanded bilateral cooperation, Beijing is likely to be uneasy, analysts say
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[2026-04-25 10:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 25 (Yonhap) -- 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 10:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: More than 11 Palestinians, including a woman and a child, were killed in separate Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to health officials.
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[2026-04-25 10:25 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-04-25 10:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: And on the second day, the Jets went with defense.
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[2026-04-25 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Soaring packaging costs amid the Iran war hint at a deeper malaise as the middle class contracts and growth hits a plateau
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[2026-04-25 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Indonesia] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Soaring packaging costs amid the Iran war hint at a deeper malaise as the middle class contracts and growth hits a plateau
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[2026-04-25 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Chai bar owner and army veteran Ambi says he is proud to support those serving in the armed forces. Source: SBS / Spencer Austad
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[2026-04-25 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Uncle Ray Minniecon (L) — himself an ADF veteran — delivered the Acknowledgement of Country in Sydney's Martin Place, where a small but vocal group booed. RSL NSW acting president, retired brigadier Vince Williams (R), apologised directly to Uncle Minniecon. Source: Supplied / RSL NSW
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[2026-04-25 09:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah said its fighters carried out several attacks on Israeli forces inside southern Lebanon. In a statement, the group said it targeted troops and military vehicles in the town of al-Qantara with drones.
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[2026-04-25 09:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Brian Scott Lorenz, right, sits with his defense attorney Ilann Maazel, left, in court in Buffalo, N.Y., April 22, 2026, before closing arguments in his second retrial for the 1993 killing of Deborah Meindl. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, File)
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[2026-04-25 09:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Can we afford to let talks to end the war with Iran go on for a while?
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[2026-04-25 09:00 UTC+10:00] [Business] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-04-25 09:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Iran partially reopened its eastern airspace this month, offering a positive sign for a region roiled by war.
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[2026-04-25 08:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Federal authorities are trying to seize a palatial $30 million Beverly Hills mansion after filing a civil complaint alleging its Kurdish general owner defrauded the government to buy it.
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[2026-04-25 08:06 UTC+10:00] [Anzac Day] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Roberts-Smith, who has denied five charges of war crime murder, says he was always going to attend: ‘I never thought about not coming’
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[2026-04-25 08:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Syrian authorities have accused Hezbollah-linked cells of plotting attacks inside Syria and across its borders, marking a striking turn in the relationship between Damascus and a group that helped prop up Bashar Assad during the Syrian civil war.
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[2026-04-25 07:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Gen. Romeo S. Brawner Jr. on Friday said University of the Philippines (UP) student leader Alyssa Alano was “armed and fighting” during the Toboso, Negros Occidental clash supporting the military’s claim that all 19 casualties were identified members of the New People’s Army (NPA).
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[2026-04-25 07:40 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-04-25 07:29 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Valentine Hare was an Aboriginal veteran who served in World War One. His niece, Nana Iris Glenbar, spent 40 years searching for him after displacement and government policy erased him. Source: Supplied / Nana Iris' family has granted SBS permission to use her image. Image of Valentine Hare courtesy of the State Library of Queensland.
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[2026-04-25 07:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s health ministry says Israeli air strikes have killed six people in the south, confirming earlier Israeli claims of fatalities.
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[2026-04-25 07:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The recent surge in fuel prices due to the war in Iran has spurred demand for electric vehicles around the world, and Chinese car makers are making the most of the opportunity.
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[2026-04-25 06:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Kuwait’s military says two drones launched from Iraq struck northern border positions on Friday, causing damage but no casualties.
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[2026-04-25 06:52 UTC+10:00] [Finance] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Oil prices surged this week as the war in the Middle East once again rattled global markets. Source: AAP / Jay Kogler
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[2026-04-25 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The facade of the Australian War Memorial was lit up before dawn on Anzac Day 2026. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
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[2026-04-25 06:42 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Can Australia honour service while confronting wrongdoing this Anzac Day? Source: Getty, SBS / Michael Willson/AFL Photos
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[2026-04-25 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps says it has seized a vessel it suspects of collaborating with the US military.
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[2026-04-25 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: In the first season of the Brazilian thriller New Bandits, a banker and former army officer embeds himself in his birth family, who are a group of bank robbers. Over the course of that first season, he realized it would be better to be a part of that family’s legacy than to try to keep playing things straight.
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[2026-04-25 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Penny the donkey will take centre stage at Mount Gambier's Anzac Day march. (Supplied: Sarah Treloars)
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[2026-04-25 06:22 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
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[2026-04-25 06:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A surge for Intel following a blowout profit report helped lead technology stocks higher, while oil prices keep swinging in the wait for what’s next with the Iran war.
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[2026-04-25 05:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Trump administration has told several Gulf states that they should use American companies to rebuild their infrastructure damaged by Iran's retaliatory strikes amid the US-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic, US and Arab officials familiar with the discussions told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-04-25 05:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A general view of Bamenda, Cameroon, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Welba Yamo Pascal)
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[2026-04-25 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The supply shock from the U.S.-Iran war impacted the oil and gas units of India's largest company Reliance Industries. © Reuters
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[2026-04-25 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The remarks come ahead of a month-long conference to revise the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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[2026-04-25 05:48 UTC+10:00] [Italy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The remarks come ahead of a month-long conference to revise the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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[2026-04-25 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: This article is the first in a series titled “HER,” an ongoing project by photojournalist Chen G. Schimmel, exploring the lives and inner worlds of the wives of Israeli soldiers.
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[2026-04-25 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A New York City teen girl had her head bashed on the sidewalk for the crime of refusing to give her number to a fellow teen who asked for it — a sickening symptom of the perceived gender war being waged on social media between young men and women.
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[2026-04-25 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Defence Secretary Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Sampath Thuyacontha met Assistant Secretary-General responsible for the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific at the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO) Khaled Khiari on Wednesday (22), continuing his official visit to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
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[2026-04-25 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: In another strike against smuggling, the Sri Lanka Navy seized a significant haul of over 550 kg of Kendu leaves during a search operation in the Negombo lagoon.
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[2026-04-25 05:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s foreign minister has arrived in Pakistan ahead of expected talks with the United States, as diplomatic efforts to end the war gather pace.
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[2026-04-25 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: At a moment when institutions across the country are asking how to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is putting Jews at the center of the origin story.
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[2026-04-25 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Nesiah Karadi, 11, was declared dead on Friday following more than three weeks of fighting in the intensive care unit after she was struck by an Iranian missile in Bnei Brak on Passover eve.
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[2026-04-25 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US State Department's top lawyer has argued that US President Donald Trump's war with Iran was launched in self-defense and to defend US ally Israel, arguing the bombing campaign was not the start of a new war but the continuation of an ongoing conflict.
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