Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-11 22:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Three Indian sailors have been killed after the US military struck a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, a federal minister said on Thursday.
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[2026-06-11 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The ambassadors of Britain, France and Germany met with senior officials at Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday, several days after the three countries held a summit in London to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
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[2026-06-11 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Overnight, there did not appear to be any new major exchanges of fire after Iran launched retaliatory strikes on US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan - following the US bombing of some dozens of targets in Iran earlier, in the wake of the downing of a US Apache attack helicopter in the Hormuz area earlier this week.
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[2026-06-11 21:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United States and Iran exchanged strikes on Wednesday and Thursday, placing a fragile April ceasefire under its most serious strain yet and drawing several Gulf states directly into the latest round of escalation.
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[2026-06-11 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Healey accused the prime minister of failing to commit the resources needed to protect the country from rising threats
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[2026-06-11 21:34 UTC+10:00] [Keir Starmer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Healey accused the prime minister of failing to commit the resources needed to protect the country from rising threats
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[2026-06-11 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Shaun Edwards has spent nearly seven years with France
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[2026-06-11 21:32 UTC+10:00] [Sport / NRL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-06-11 21:27 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — British Defense Secretary John Healey resigned from Keir Starmer's beleaguered government Thursday's amid a long-running row over funding for the country's armed forces.
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[2026-06-11 21:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: John Healey, Britain’s Minister of Defense arrives for a cabinet meeting inside 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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[2026-06-11 21:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Britain’s defence minister says he has resigned over a disagreement with the prime minister about defence spending.
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[2026-06-11 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A sea drone was used to save two crew members of a downed US army helicopter off the coast of Oman earlier this week, according to the US military - making it the first publicly known instance of an unmanned vessel being used to conduct a rescue mission.
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[2026-06-11 21:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Nearly 1.3 million Syrians returned home in 2025 following the end of the civil war in their homeland, the UN's refugee agency revealed on Thursday.
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[2026-06-11 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Fresh Ukrainian attacks have damaged several bridges connecting the occupied Kherson region with Crimea, Kremlin-installed officials said Thursday morning, coming days after they ordered restrictions on commercial and passenger traffic along major roadways leading to the annexed peninsula.
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[2026-06-11 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: US military’s Central Command says it launched more strikes on Iran on second day of renewed fire
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[2026-06-11 20:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Three Indian sailors have died in a US military operation to halt a tanker off Oman as part of Washington’s efforts to blockade Iran-linked shipping, Indian authorities said on Thursday.
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[2026-06-11 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Trump administration has launched an investigation into prominent Iran war critic Trita Parsi, according to a report in the Free Press.
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[2026-06-11 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Abu Dhabi defence company Edge Group has opened a new subsidiary in France to serve as its base for aggressively expanding investments and co-operation in Europe.
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[2026-06-11 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has "certainly gotten some things wrong", US Vice-President JD Vance has said, as ties between the two partners in the war against Iran appear to have become strained in recent weeks.
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[2026-06-11 20:26 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-06-11 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Gulf leaders have strongly condemned Iranian attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, warning that the assaults threaten regional stability, global trade and energy supplies. The criticism came as tensions intensified following fresh military exchanges involving Iran and the United States.
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[2026-06-11 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BARCELONA — Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday said Christians could not consider themselves such if they "promote war" — a thinly veiled reference to US President Donald Trump's administration.
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[2026-06-11 20:19 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BERLIN — Germany must prepare for a Russian attack by 2029 or even earlier, the head of the German army told POLITICO.
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[2026-06-11 20:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China is downplaying the issue for now, as it is unlikely that pressuring North Korea would do anything other than sour ties
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[2026-06-11 20:10 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China is downplaying the issue for now, as it is unlikely that pressuring North Korea would do anything other than sour ties
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[2026-06-11 19:54 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-06-11 19:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A ceasefire in the region is once again on the brink of collapse after the US and Iran exchanged fire in the early hours of Thursday, raising fears of a return to full-scale war.
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[2026-06-11 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S. has emerged as the top supplier of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas to India in May, as shipments from the Gulf countries fell due to traffic disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-06-11 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) -- Hanwha Ocean Co. is widely expected to be named for the country's next-generation Navy destroyer project, worth 7.8 trillion won (US$5.1 billion), beating its rival HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., industry sources said Thursday.
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[2026-06-11 19:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Army soldiers carry a flag-wrapped casket of military personnel, killed in the Wednesday’s helicopter crashed, during a funeral prayer, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Thursday, June 11, 2026. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)
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[2026-06-11 19:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatari negotiators have departed Tehran following discussions on the current Middle East war, AFP reported, citing a diplomatic source.
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[2026-06-11 19:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: At least 22 personnel were killed in a military helicopter crash in Pakistani Kashmir, security sources said on Thursday.
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[2026-06-11 19:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Perhaps it took the shooting of a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the West Bank last Friday to rouse the anger once again. Little Sam Fahd Abu Haikal was in a car near Hebron with his parents, brother and grandmother when Israeli troops ordered them to stop. Despite complying, one soldier fired shots at the vehicle.
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[2026-06-11 19:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Efforts to reach a preliminary deal between Iran and the US have intensified despite strikes exchanged by both sides, as they discuss a mechanism for releasing frozen Iranian funds, three Iranian sources and a European official told Reuters.
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[2026-06-11 18:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Officials summoned Alibaba, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Douyin and RedNote over marketing practices, underscoring official concern about subsidy wars
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[2026-06-11 18:35 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Officials summoned Alibaba, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Douyin and RedNote over marketing practices, underscoring official concern about subsidy wars
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[2026-06-11 18:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Despite an overhanging shadow of war with Iran, over a dozen Israeli defense companies are taking part in ILA Berlin, one of Europe’s major aviation and defense exhibitions that opened on Wednesday.
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[2026-06-11 18:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: IDF soldiers destroyed an anti-tank missile launcher belonging to Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, the IDF confirmed.
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[2026-06-11 18:31 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-06-11 18:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The European Union, which has been starved for cheap energy since the start of the Ukraine war, is betting that the future of its energy system lies under the North African sun. On Tuesday, the European Commission pledged €5 billion of EU money to renewables projects in North Africa and the Middle East, which could feed electricity back into Europe’s grid, Politico reported.
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[2026-06-11 18:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The air strike puts an end to a month of relative calm between the two sides.
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[2026-06-11 17:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: ROME, June 11 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung said South Korea's traditional reliance on the United States for defense is no longer valid and that the country will seek to become a partner capable of self-reliant defense.
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[2026-06-11 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Iran's State TV reported Thursday that the country's joint military command has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed "to the passage of all vessels, including oil tankers and commercial ships."
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[2026-06-11 17:31 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean stocks ended higher Thursday, rebounding after a sharp fall earlier in the day, as major semiconductor shares gained ground after export data proved the sector's robust performance, while uncertainties over the US-Iran war remained in place.
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[2026-06-11 17:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Thu 11 Jun 2026 at 5:27pm
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[2026-06-11 17:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Three Indian sailors who were reported missing have been killed after the US military struck a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, a federal minister has said.
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[2026-06-11 17:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Emirates has scrapped its previous earnings targets and would be happy to break even this financial year if the conflict with Iran continues, its president Tim Clark has said.
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[2026-06-11 17:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Dubai/Washington: The United States and Iran traded air attacks on Thursday for a second straight day, and US President Donald Trump vowed further strikes if Tehran does not immediately agree to a peace deal.
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[2026-06-11 16:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Kim Min-seok offered his condolences Thursday over the recent death of veteran Japanese politician Yohei Kono, who was best known for his apology to Korean and other Asian women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II.
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[2026-06-11 16:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks ended higher Thursday, rebounding after a sharp fall earlier in the day, as major semiconductor shares gained ground after export data proved the sector's robust performance, while uncertainties over the U.S.-Iran war remained in place.
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