Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-12 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As others exert geopolitical influence based on economic or military might, North Korea’s leader has turned a weaker hand to his advantage
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[2026-06-12 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As others exert geopolitical influence based on economic or military might, North Korea’s leader has turned a weaker hand to his advantage
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[2026-06-12 22:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US stock futures and global markets are higher, extending their rally while oil hit the lowest level in months following fresh reports that the US and Iran are nearing a provisional agreement to end their war, even if top leadership has yet to sign off. Meanwhile, all eyes are on SpaceX - the world's biggest IPO- where shadow markets are pricing a spike of at least 35% for SpaceX on its debut, while online market see odds of a 30%
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[2026-06-12 22:10 UTC+10:00] [UK news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenJakarta, IndonesiaStudents clash with police during a protest against a fuel price risePhotograph: Mast Irham/EPAShareView image in fullscreenLondon, UKPeople protest outside Woolwich crown court before a hearing where Palestine Action activists are due to be sentenced over a break-in at the UK base of an Israeli-based defence firm, Elbit SystemsPhotograph: Yui Mok/PAShareView image in fullscreenGaza StripChildren play in the wreckage of a car in the Bureij refugee campPhotograph: AFP/GettyShareView image in fullscreenNakuru, KenyaRed Cross officials help a
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[2026-06-12 22:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The most fundamental rift in Israeli politics is arguably not the wars it is fighting on multiple fronts, nor the international isolation stemming from its genocidal war in Gaza. Instead, the conscription of young ultra-Orthodox men into the military continues to divide the country’s major political parties and bring demonstrators to the streets.
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[2026-06-12 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: It was a short news headline, but it said a lot. The 9 a.m. radio news on Israel’s public broadcaster on Monday, June 8, announced: “No rockets have been launched on Israel in the last hour.”
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[2026-06-12 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An American businessman who wrote a book about living through a military coup in Myanmar was detained on his return to the Southeast Asian nation on Thursday, according to two people briefed on the matter.
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[2026-06-12 21:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Lab director says fundamental scientific challenges need to be overcome to achieve theoretical performance
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[2026-06-12 21:30 UTC+10:00] [photonic-electronic hybrid AI accelerator chips] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Lab director says fundamental scientific challenges need to be overcome to achieve theoretical performance
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[2026-06-12 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Trader sentiment has sharply reversed after President Trump canceled the planned strikes and negotiators signaled progress toward a potential U.S.-Iran peace deal.
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[2026-06-12 21:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Nigeria’s military has “neutralised” more than 13,000 “terrorists” in the past year, the president says, as armed groups and criminal gangs continue to carry out mass attacks and kidnappings in the country.
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[2026-06-12 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A lawmaker from Russia’s systemic opposition has broken ranks and issued a scathing criticism of the Kremlin’s mismanagement of its war in Ukraine, saying the war risks plunging the country into social upheaval.
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[2026-06-12 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A lawmaker from Russia’s systemic opposition has broken ranks and issued a scathing criticism of the Kremlin’s mismanagement of its war in Ukraine, saying the war risks plunging the country into social upheaval.
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[2026-06-12 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A student protester holds up a mask of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto during a rally against a fuel price hike, government inefficient spendings, and military involvement in civilian affairs in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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[2026-06-12 20:44 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Al Carns also indicated that he has leadership ambitions in the resignation letter than he released last night.
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[2026-06-12 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A woman stands at an entrance of the office of Mytel telecom in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo)
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[2026-06-12 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: More than 100 days since the US and Israel launched co-ordinated strikes on Iran on February 28, the war that was supposed to eliminate its threat and reshape the region is at a crossroads.
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[2026-06-12 20:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mohammed Rahal spent a year and a half displaced after the Israeli army forced him from his home in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-06-12 20:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups will meet in France on Friday to urge the international community not to abandon a two-state solution, as Paris seeks to keep the issue alive amid the Middle East war.
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[2026-06-12 20:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel waged the Six Day War in June 1967. The 12-Day War with Iran in June 2025. And now, in 2026, the 12-hour war. Again with Iran. Again in June.
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[2026-06-12 20:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: In Al-Zawayda, about three kilometres northeast of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, dozens of people followed the opening match between Mexico and South Africa from a makeshift coffee tent despite frequent power cuts. In Khan Younis, displaced families watched the tournament on television screens set up in temporary shelters, remaining gathered long into the evening.
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[2026-06-12 20:08 UTC+10:00] [Defense budgets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — The U.K. defense plans were supposed to lay the groundwork for a rearmament drive to deter Russia and reinforce Britain's role in NATO. Instead, it's turned into a political and defense-policy crisis.
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[2026-06-12 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On 1 September 2025, a little-noticed administrative decision by the financial regulator of one of Europe's smallest countries set off a legal storm that is still building.
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[2026-06-12 20:01 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-06-12 19:29 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: June 12, 2026 19:29 | News
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[2026-06-12 19:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Three large beachfront plots on an exclusive Dubai island have been sold for a collective Dh1 billion ($272 million) in the past two months, in a sign that ultra-wealthy investor interest remains resilient despite the Iran war.
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[2026-06-12 19:06 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-06-12 19:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Egypt urged the United States and Iran to seize what it called an "available opportunity" for a deal to end the war, after President Donald Trump withdrew his threat to carry out further strikes on Tehran.
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[2026-06-12 19:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Overnight Ukrainian drone strikes targeted major energy and petrochemical facilities in central Russia’s Samara region and the republic of Tatarstan, monitoring groups reported Friday.
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[2026-06-12 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Collectors and Collections] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: On the walls of the International Museum of Children’s Art in Oslo are drawings made by Afghan girls at a clandestine school, by Ukrainian children at an art center that was destroyed by war, and by kids around the world during the Covid pandemic.
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[2026-06-12 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: SpaceX didn't just rewrite the playbook for aerospace and defense, it helped birth a new space economy.
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[2026-06-12 18:55 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed Washington had “ended the war in Iran” and said a formal peace treaty would be signed in the coming days.
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[2026-06-12 18:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Luxury stocks saw a sharp uptick after a proposed Iran-U.S. deal outlined a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and lifting of U.S. oil sanctions, according to Iran state media.
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[2026-06-12 18:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Over the past week, the IDF has conducted operations on three separate fronts, aiming to handle terrorism threats from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, from the Gaza Strip, and from the West Bank, the military announced on Friday.
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[2026-06-12 18:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For more than a decade, political leaders, military strategists, and sections of the media across the Muslim world have periodically revived the idea of an “Islamic NATO,” a unified military bloc of Muslim-majority nations capable of defending collective interests and confronting perceived adversaries.
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[2026-06-12 18:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Despite Iran’s announcement of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the United States says the strategic waterway remains open to shipping. As military tensions persist, Washington and Tehran appear to be moving closer to a potential agreement that could ease a growing regional crisis.
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[2026-06-12 18:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Ecuador held high-level policy consultations Friday, and discussed ways to expand cooperation in energy and defense amid the U.S.-Iran war, the foreign ministry said.
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[2026-06-12 17:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Tartan Army is feeling the heat in Boston as plane-loads of fans continue to arrive in the city as the World Cup gets under way.
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[2026-06-12 17:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Three Indian sailors have been killed in strikes on at least three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz this week, as the United States doubles down on its naval blockade of Iranian ports.
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[2026-06-12 17:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Oil prices fell on Friday and were on track to post a weekly loss after US President Donald Trump called off strikes on Iran and raised the prospect of the countries reaching a settlement to end the war.
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[2026-06-12 17:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Leaders from Gulf and South Asian countries called US President Donald Trump to ask him to call off strikes against Iran after Trump posted about his planned attack on Truth Social, Politico reported on Friday morning.
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[2026-06-12 17:17 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul stocks rose by more than 4 percent Friday, as investors snapped up tech heavyweights amid hopes the war between the United States and Iran could end soon.
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[2026-06-12 17:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: After their war last May, India and Pakistan reached a truce. But deaths continued on the world's highest battlefield.
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[2026-06-12 17:06 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces
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[2026-06-12 17:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Global stock markets rallied after US President Donald Trump said he had cancelled a third day of planned strikes against Iran and indicated that an agreement with Tehran was close.
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[2026-06-12 17:02 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US president says ‘great settlement’ reached but Iranian spokesman says there has been no final conclusion
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[2026-06-12 16:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has sent its military planes to South Korea to expedite the transport of a Korean-made interceptor missile system amid the Middle East conflict, sources said Friday.
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[2026-06-12 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Several months ago, close in time to when the US-Iran war started, a separate conflict had erupted further east, along the Af-Pak border and even reaching as deep into Afghanistan as far as Kabul (where Pakistani airstrikes rained down).
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[2026-06-12 16:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- Seoul stocks rose by more than 4 percent Friday, as investors snapped up tech heavyweights amid hopes the war between the United States and Iran could end soon.
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[2026-06-12 16:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
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