Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-28 13:59 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Iran has kept firing missiles at Israel and Gulf nations, including a strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia that wounded at least 10 US service members
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[2026-03-28 13:55 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Israel’s military chiefs have warned that settler expansion and violence in the West Bank are stretching the army to breaking point.
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[2026-03-28 13:54 UTC+10:00] [Property / Living] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A spacious, two-bedroom apartment in Melbourne’s inner south-east sold for $130,000 above reserve following a bidding war between seven first home buyers at Saturday’s auction.
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[2026-03-28 13:45 UTC+10:00] [Business / The economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-28 13:26 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Steve Witkoff says he is ‘hopeful’ that there will be meetings ‘this week’, even as the conflict shows no sign of ending
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[2026-03-28 13:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: President Donald Trump urged Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, saying the Middle East is being “transformed” by the war involving Iran and that the region’s future is bright.
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[2026-03-28 13:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency reported that a US-Israeli attack targeted a university in the capital, Tehran, amid ongoing strikes across the country.
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[2026-03-28 12:54 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The foreign ministers of South Korea and Ukraine have agreed to make efforts to resolve the issue of two North Korean soldiers captured during the Russia-Ukraine war in accordance with international law and humanitarian principles, Seoul's foreign ministry said Saturday.
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[2026-03-28 12:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The U.S. expects its military operations against Iran to conclude within weeks, not months, and Washington can meet all its objectives without using ground troops, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.
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[2026-03-28 12:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) says in a statement published by Iranian outlets that the site of the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked today for the third time during the current war.
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[2026-03-28 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned it would carry out retaliatory strikes on industrial facilities across the region following attacks on its nuclear and infrastructure sites.
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[2026-03-28 12:19 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US secretary of state says Zelenskyy’s claims ‘not true’ about Donbas; French TV criticised over Sergei Lavrov interview. What we know on day 1,494
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[2026-03-28 12:17 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said Friday that "Cuba is next," as he pointed out his administration's use of America's "great" military in Iran and Venezuela.
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[2026-03-28 12:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: St Kilda and Brisbane have made enemies of each other off the field, which means there is plenty to play for on it as they kick off Saturday's AFL action.
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[2026-03-28 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Saudi intelligence source confirms reporting that crown prince has urged Trump to ramp up ‘historic opportunity’ to remake Middle East – key US politics stories from Friday 27 March at a glance
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[2026-03-28 11:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air strikes hit multiple towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, with raids reported in the Nabatieh district and the Bekaa Valley, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-03-28 11:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — US stocks deepened their drops Friday as Wall Street finished off a fifth straight losing week, its longest such streak in nearly four years.
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[2026-03-28 11:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Stocks keep falling as investors lose patience with the Iran war. (AP Photo: Seth Wenig)
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[2026-03-28 11:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MIAMI, Florida — President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his disappointment with NATO allies over their refusal to send military to help secure the Strait of Hormuz and said Washington may not help them in future if asked to do so.
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[2026-03-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [England] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: England were disjointed against Uruguay but no wonder – the head coach’s team selection was an act of self sabotage
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[2026-03-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Oil is up, coal is back and so are fuel queues. As the Middle East burns, Southeast Asia dusts off an old plan to rewire its future
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[2026-03-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Houthi supporters shout slogans during a rally against Israel and the United States' war on Iran. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have not yet been active in the Iran war. Source: AP / Osamah Abdulrahman
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[2026-03-28 10:47 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As the Strait of Hormuz crisis deepens, lifting the Iranian blockade has become Donald Trump’s central war aim. For strategists at the Pentagon, that may come as a relief.
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[2026-03-28 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — As President Trump cranks up pressure on Iran, Pentagon brass are quietly lining up a wide menu of military options — which could put US boots on the ground in a major war for the first time in nearly half a decade.
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[2026-03-28 09:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthis say they are prepared to intervene militarily if other countries join the United States and Israel in their war against Iran, or if the Red Sea is used to launch attacks on their ally.
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[2026-03-28 09:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: As tough as the competition is, the most dishonest trope of the entire major-media drive to protect the Islamic Republic of Iran has to be the constant claims that President Donald Trump and the Pentagon “have no plan” for the war, and no clue how they’ll end it — a fecklessness that supposedly has us headed for a “quagmire” if we’re not already in it.
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[2026-03-28 09:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-03-28 09:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia said Saturday it had intercepted a missile targeting the Riyadh region.
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[2026-03-28 09:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The whirlwind of uncertainty in the oil markets has continued this week as the United States-Israel war on Iran approaches the one-month mark.
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[2026-03-28 08:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Russia is sending a shipment of drones to Iran including upgraded versions of the drone technology that Tehran originally supplied to Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, US and European officials told The Associated Press this week.
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[2026-03-28 08:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Israeli authorities have confirmed multiple casualties and at least one fatality, after Iran launched its latest wave of retaliatory strikes promising to exact a “heavy price” on the Jewish state for its attack on the “heart of Tehran.”
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[2026-03-28 08:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A group of anti-war, US military veterans have slammed what they say are Israeli interests guiding US military policy, culminating in the current US-Israeli war on Iran that is putting American lives at risk.
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[2026-03-28 08:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Here’s a number that should make every American wince: $4 million. That’s what it costs to fire a single Patriot interceptor missile.
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[2026-03-28 08:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Marines and paratroopers who could be sent to seize an Iranian island in the Gulf will be thrust into a “shooting gallery” with vulnerable supply lines and ill-defined strategic objectives, former US military officials and analysts tell Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-28 08:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: JERUSALEM — Israel's military warned late Friday that Iran had fired missiles toward it, as AFP correspondents reported air raid sirens in Jerusalem and explosions were heard from the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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[2026-03-28 08:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Heavily armed state forces continue to control Iran’s streets, despite the United States and Israel launching more strikes and preparing for a potential ground attack, as the nearly one-month war proceeds with no clear end point on the horizon
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[2026-03-28 08:14 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-28 07:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Mexico’s Navy and the United States Coast Guard have signalled that the search is ongoing for two missing sailboats that were part of a humanitarian convoy to Cuba this week.
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[2026-03-28 07:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel has struck a uranium processing facility in the central Iranian city of Yazd, the Israeli military confirmed, in an escalatory move that comes as regional diplomats have been attempting to broker an agreement to halt the joint US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-28 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The American Revolution is far from done with the Fraser family in the final season of Outlander. While Jamie (Sam Heughan) is preparing for war on the Ridge, Roger (Richard Rankin) gets sucked into another Revolutionary War battle.
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[2026-03-28 07:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. stocks closed out their worst week since the Iran war began and their fifth losing week in a row.
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[2026-03-28 07:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A bad week for stocks was particularly rough for tech investors, as the Nasdaq suffered its worst weekly drop since April 2025. Meta and Micron saw double-digit drops, but the pain was felt across the board as concerns about the U.S.-Iran war drove up energy prices.
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[2026-03-28 07:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The ex-con accused of fatally shooting NYPD cop Jonathan Diller will not take the stand in his own defense, it was revealed Friday — as Queens prosecutors showed heartbreaking footage of the slain officer’s final breaths.
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[2026-03-28 07:11 UTC+10:00] [US markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Dow fell 800 points as oil prices continue to climb, and markets are still on edge despite US pause on Iranian energy strikes
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[2026-03-28 07:09 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Israel expands war into Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah as buffer zone plans and annexation calls raise humanitarian and geopolitical stakes. Source: SBS News / Graphic art by Jacob Chantarat
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[2026-03-28 07:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Venezuelan illegal immigrant accused of murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman is missing a part of his brain and has the “development of a child,” his lawyer said in court Friday.
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[2026-03-28 06:50 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: As with the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is now experiencing travel and supply chain disruptions, panic buying, and requests to work from home. Source: SBS, Getty
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[2026-03-28 06:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Photos of soldiers who died on a military cargo plane that crashed in Puerto Leguizamo, stand on the steps of the altar before a Mass in their honor at a military base church in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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[2026-03-28 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: To explore the roots of Donald Trump’s Iran military strategy and the pugnacious rhetoric of his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, means looking back 105 years. In 1921, a year before Benito Mussolini and his blackshirts marched on Rome to launch the Fascist era, an Italian general named Giulio Douhet published The Command of the Air, proposing a revolution in warfare.
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[2026-03-28 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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