Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-09 01:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius says men of military age in Germany do not need to report lengthy stays abroad.
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[2026-04-09 01:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on the Iran war
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[2026-04-09 01:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Two men accused of trying to bomb a protest outside the New York City mayor's home wanted to kill up to 60 people in the name of the Islamic State group (IS), federal prosecutors allege.
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[2026-04-09 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US-Israel war on Iran achieved ‘every single objective’: Hegseth
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[2026-04-09 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq has been one of the main targets of Iran and its proxies in the month and a half of war since February 28.
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[2026-04-09 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Many Israelis woke up this morning with a sense of frustration. In the hours leading up to the expiration of the American ultimatum to Iran, expectations were high that the night might bring another decisive phase of the campaign, possibly including strikes against Iran’s critical energy infrastructure. Such a move was widely perceived as the type of pressure that could force Tehran into a strategic retreat.
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[2026-04-09 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Sirens sounded in northern Israel on Wednesday afternoon after Hezbollah fired rockets from Lebanon, with additional sirens sounding later on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Ben Roberts-Smith] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Media outlets defended their reporting as true on the balance of probabilities, but prosecutors in criminal cases need to meet a higher burden of proof
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[2026-04-09 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds injured in Lebanon in Israel's largest spree of attacks during the current war.
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[2026-04-09 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Written off as defeated after the 2024 war with Israel, Hezbollah has surprised observers by deploying significant firepower, introducing previously unseen weapons, and confronting Israeli troops along the border, where it was assumed to have no remaining presence.
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[2026-04-09 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran has once again closed the Strait of Hormuz, blocking oil tankers from transiting the waterway, in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Hezbollah, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-tied outlet Fars News reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-09 00:48 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As Iran and US agree fragile ceasefire, Israel’s conflict has turned out to be a bust and, say opponents, ‘a political disaster’
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[2026-04-09 00:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israeli strikes have hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut without warning, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the United States-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-09 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: After 40 days of fighting, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Wednesday morning, with negotiations expected to begin on Friday in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.
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[2026-04-09 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed in a video statement that the latest wave of attacks on Lebanon killed "hundreds" of Hezbollah fighters.
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[2026-04-09 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT — Israeli strikes hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut without warning Wednesday afternoon, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the US-Israeli war with Iran. Lebanon’s health ministry said dozens were killed and hundreds wounded in an early estimate.
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[2026-04-09 00:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, April 8 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed Wednesday the United States has achieved a "decisive" and "overwhelming" victory in the war with Iran, adding that the Islamic Republic will hand over its enriched uranium, or the U.S. will "take it out."
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[2026-04-09 00:21 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Defense secretary spoke to reporters in first press briefing since Trump announced ceasefire deal after 40 days of war
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[2026-04-09 00:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel has stepped up air strikes across Lebanon, pounding central Beirut, just hours after the US and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire, according to RT correspondent Steve Sweeney, who was caught up in the attack with his cameraman Ali Rida Sbeity.
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[2026-04-09 00:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israel has stepped up air strikes across Lebanon, pounding central Beirut, just hours after the US and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire, according to RT correspondent Steve Sweeney, who was caught up in the attack with his cameraman Ali Rida Sbeity.
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[2026-04-09 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Heart disease] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Oxford team’s technology picked up danger signs with 86% accuracy in study of 72,000 patients in England
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[2026-04-08 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A new Pew Research Center survey, conducted weeks into the US-Israeli war on Iran, found that six in 10 Americans now hold an unfavourable view of Israel, up from 53 percent last year and by nearly 20 points since 2022.
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[2026-04-08 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-08 23:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: In the final hours before a United States-Iran ceasefire was reached early on Wednesday in the Middle East, the war that had shaken the world for nearly six weeks had threatened to explode to even more prolonged and devastating levels.
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[2026-04-08 23:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine told Al Jazeera that "hundreds" of people have been killed and wounded in the last wave of Israeli strikes on Beirut.
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[2026-04-08 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: On April 8, a fragile ceasefire took shape in the Middle East. The fragility of the ceasefire is clear from reports of continued Iranian attacks on the Gulf, as well as news that Israel will continue its strikes in Lebanon.
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[2026-04-08 23:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spanish trade unions on Wednesday announced that the next two stoppage days by ground handling staff at 12 airports will not go ahead as negotiations over work conditions have begun, following a week of walkouts which caused delays and baggage issues.
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[2026-04-08 23:36 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Don’t be popping those champagne corks yet: Europe’s economy will still be hurting from the war in the Middle East for months — and maybe longer.
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[2026-04-08 23:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As Israel contemplates a two-week ceasefire announced by United States President Donald Trump in the war on Iran on Tuesday night, it appears weakened in the eyes of its opponents and critics. Its arch-nemesis, Iran, is still standing; Israel’s defensive stock of missiles is depleted and its prime minister is facing a political backlash.
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[2026-04-08 23:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on the Iran war
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[2026-04-08 23:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iran, the United States and Israel reached a tentative, two-week ceasefire Wednesday in the war that tore across the Middle East and disrupted the global energy market, with U.S. President Donald Trump pulling back from his threats to destroy Iranian “civilization.” But questions immediately emerged over what appeared to be dueling proposals to halt the fighting, with Iran insisting it would continue to control and charge ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz as well as enrich uranium.
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[2026-04-08 23:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Israeli strikes hit several dense commercial and residential areas in central Beirut Wednesday afternoon without warning, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the U.S.-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-04-08 23:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Sixteen Cameroonians have been killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the BBC has confirmed after a foreign ministry source verified that a recently leaked diplomatic note circulating on social media about the deaths was authentic.
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[2026-04-08 23:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A judge in St. Petersburg on Wednesday sentenced six former members of the democratic youth organization Vesna to prison sentences of varying lengths after they were found guilty of charges including extremism and spreading “war fakes.”
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[2026-04-08 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: War delivers a bigger hit to the economy than natural disasters or governments defaulting on debt, new research has revealed, alongside warnings that any substantial increase in defence spending will require cuts to health and education services.
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[2026-04-08 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The World Bank expects economic growth in the Middle East to slow to 1.8 per cent this year as a result of the Iran war, warning the fallout can result in long-term “scarring”.
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[2026-04-08 22:49 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Whatever happens next as US and Iran agree to a temporary ceasefire, some important lessons have been learned
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[2026-04-08 22:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday that the ceasefire with the United States and Israel was done with "the acceptance of the general principles desired by Iran," in the first official comment from the Iranian regime since the announcement of the agreement.
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[2026-04-08 22:37 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Iran and Gulf Arab countries have reported new attacks hours after Iran, the US and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire.The eleventh-hour deal headed off US President Donald Trump's threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilisation.It was not clear if the strikes would scuttle the deal, which US Vice President JD Vance called "fragile".AS IT HAPPENED: Trump promised to help ease the 'traffic buildup', but there's no trafficFirst responders work at the site of an Israeli
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[2026-04-08 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Bicol Saro Partylist Rep. Terry Ridon calls the move of the camp of Vice President Sara Duterte to file a petition at the Supreme Court as a 'deception,' stressing that it is the plenary at the House of Representatives that moved the complaints to the justice committee for investigation. Duterte filed a petition for certiorari and prohibition at the Supreme Court, which according to her defense team, is not about avoiding the process being conducted at the committee, but about
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[2026-04-08 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took a victory lap Wednesday, claiming that Iran “begged” for a cease-fire and touting an “overwhelming victory” on the battlefield.
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[2026-04-08 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Democratic congressman John Larson has filed articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump over his actions connected with the Iran war.
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[2026-04-08 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Democratic congressman John Larson has filed articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump over his actions connected with the Iran war.
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[2026-04-08 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Less than 24 hours after threatening the end of Iranian civilisation, US President Donald Trump has accepted a two-week ceasefire with the country on the basis of a plan issued by the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-04-08 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that America had a "decisive military victory against Iran" in comments to the press on Wednesday. He added that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded and disfigured.
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[2026-04-08 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: While governments must avoid swapping one dependency for another, Beijing’s inroads could help enhance food security efforts
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[2026-04-08 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Global South] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: While governments must avoid swapping one dependency for another, Beijing’s inroads could help enhance food security efforts
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[2026-04-08 22:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on a building in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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[2026-04-08 22:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed a "decisive military victory" over Iran in a speech on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-08 22:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Ten hours: this is the time it took between US President Donald Trump’s threat to wipe out Iran and his announcement of a ceasefire. Between the two, the world held its breath.
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