Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-15 17:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Jeepney drivers stage a protest in Quezon City in Metro Manila demanding government support as fuel prices continue to rise. (Photo by Ramon Royandoyan)
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[2026-04-15 17:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has attacked Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of his main European allies, over her unwillingness to join the war on Iran.
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[2026-04-15 17:04 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-04-15 17:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-04-15 17:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Kering reported sales below expectations late Tuesday, as the luxury conglomerate's biggest brand, Gucci, remained a drag despite efforts by new CEO Luca de Meo to turn the company's fortunes around.
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[2026-04-15 16:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-15 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Italy has suspended the automatic renewal of its defense agreement with Israel amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, now 'paused' as a two-week ceasefire holds in order to give a chance for talks.
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[2026-04-15 16:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Journalists across the Arab world reacted Tuesday evening to the talks held in Washington between Israel and Lebanon, openly criticizing the Hezbollah terrorist organization and questioning its role in dragging the country into conflict. “It’s worth remembering who entered the war on October 8,” one commentator wrote.
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[2026-04-15 16:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Kim Hong-Ji/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-04-15 16:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Iran has demanded that it receive compensation for the destruction caused by the United States and Israel’s attacks, as the country remains defiant and regional powers continue their attempts to mediate an end to the conflict.
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[2026-04-15 16:25 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-15 16:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: BEIJING — At least three Chinese robotaxi companies are pressing ahead with expansion plans in the Middle East despite the ongoing Iran war.
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[2026-04-15 16:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted the northern port in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-04-15 16:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Signatories criticize US' military threats, territorial ambitions while calling for UN-led mediation
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[2026-04-15 16:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran secretly acquired a Chinese spy satellite, giving the Islamic Republic a new capability to target US military bases across the Middle East during the recent war, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-15 16:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has shown a "full" and "unambiguous" commitment to nonproliferation, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Wednesday, underscoring the importance of "ironclad" assurances that efforts such as its nuclear-powered submarine initiative are unrelated to nuclear weapons.
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[2026-04-15 16:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Students prepare to enter Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)
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[2026-04-15 16:10 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-04-15 16:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The UK is providing 120,000 drones to Ukraine in what the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said is the largest delivery of its kind.
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[2026-04-15 16:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army thwarted an attempt by Hezbollah to storm a military position in southern Lebanon, according to Yedioth Ahronoth.
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[2026-04-15 16:00 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: The United States is pursuing a “Trumpian grand bargain” with Iran that would begin to normalise relations and see the rogue state reintegrate with the global economy, US Vice President JD Vance says, as he struck a highly optimistic tone about the possibility of a deal to end the war.
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[2026-04-15 15:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Nearly 700 civilians have been killed in drone strikes in Sudan since January, the United Nations said, underscoring the escalating toll of a civil war now entering its fourth year.
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[2026-04-15 15:52 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Racing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Trainer Will Hulbert spent three months and thousands of dollars carefully devising a plan to send his exciting filly from Brisbane to Melbourne to race for $250,000.
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[2026-04-15 15:49 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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[2026-04-15 15:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran secretly acquired a Chinese spy satellite, giving the Islamic Republic a new capability to target US military bases across the Middle East during the recent war, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-15 15:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Pope Leo XIV again, suggesting that he was unaware of Iran's repressive actions against its own people and building on his criticism of the Catholic pontiff.
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[2026-04-15 15:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Prince Harry is at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra alongside AWM Director Matt Anderson. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
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[2026-04-15 15:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The government is simultaneously confronting the economic consequences of the war in Iran, as spelt out starkly by the International Monetary Fund and the sharpening of arguments from some, including former Nato secretary general Lord Robertson, that the war is evidence defence spending needs to go up more and more quickly.
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[2026-04-15 15:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The standoff between the United States and Iran deepened Tuesday as the U.S. declared it had blockaded Iran’s ports. Tehran threatened to strike targets across the region, and Pakistan said it was racing to bring the sides together for more talks. (Produced by Elaine Carroll)
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[2026-04-15 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: LONDON — European stocks are expected to open in mixed territory on Wednesday as traders assess the trajectory of the U.S.-Iran war and the prospect of renewed peace talks.
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[2026-04-15 15:16 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hopes rose for renewed talks between the United States and Iran on Wednesday, as the US military said its blockade of Iranian ports was in full effect and Tehran threatened to retaliate by strike targets across the war-weary region.
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[2026-04-15 15:16 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Australian Defence Force will be dangerously unprepared for the growing security threats the nation faces unless the Albanese government announces a major increase in defence spending this week, some of the nation’s top military experts have warned.
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[2026-04-15 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Of more than 2,000 people killed in Lebanon since Israel’s current war with Iran-backed Hezbollah began, 168 are children. Israel has often struck alleged Hezbollah militants or officials in their homes without warning. It’s frequently in areas far from the front line when they are with their families, in apartment buildings surrounded by uninvolved neighbors.
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[2026-04-15 15:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Hengyi's plant in Brunei. (Screenshot from Hengyi Industries' website)
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[2026-04-15 14:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Dean Cayley grows sugarcane in Bundaberg in Queensland. (ABC News: Tayla Larsen)
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[2026-04-15 14:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon located an anti-tank missile launcher aimed at northern Israel and carried out a series of strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure, the military said Tuesday.
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[2026-04-15 14:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said Tuesday the first negotiation talks between Israel and Lebanon were “positive”, saying about the two countries “we are on the same side of the equation.”
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[2026-04-15 14:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A man stands near the waterfront as a vessel sits at anchor in Muscat, Oman, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran on March 16. © Reuters
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[2026-04-15 14:35 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-15 14:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-04-15 14:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: American livestreamer Johnny Somali, who caused outrage in South Korea by kissing a statue representing World War Two sex slaves, has been sentenced to six months in jail.
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[2026-04-15 14:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday China had been an unreliable global partner during the Middle East war by hoarding oil supplies and limiting exports of some goods, mirroring its actions with medical goods during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[2026-04-15 14:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports is now fully into effect, "completely" cutting off Tehran's international sea trade that powers about 90% of its economy, the U.S. Central Command said late Tuesday stateside.
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[2026-04-15 14:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said Iran must not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, addressing Pope Leo in a social media post as their public dispute intensified.
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[2026-04-15 14:05 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-15 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Feng advocated for self-reliance, once saying ‘core technologies cannot be bought and relying on imports will not get us far’
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[2026-04-15 14:00 UTC+10:00] [China Daily] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Feng advocated for self-reliance, once saying ‘core technologies cannot be bought and relying on imports will not get us far’
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[2026-04-15 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Today marks a terrible anniversary of the war in Sudan, the world’s most catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
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[2026-04-15 13:54 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: WASHINGTON (AP) — Lebanon and Israel held their first direct diplomatic talks in decades on Tuesday in Washington following more than a month of war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling it a “historic opportunity” but making clear that no breakthrough agreement would happen right away.
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[2026-04-15 13:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Islanders fans rallied behind jailed ex-NYPD Sgt. Erick Duran at Tuesday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Long Island – giving cash to help boost a newly launched legal fund aimed at overturning his controversial conviction.
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