Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-27 20:42 UTC+10:00] [Booking.com] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: While the lower prices may be a boon for visitors, businesses say ‘the stillness is unsettling’ as they brace themselves for hardship
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[2026-03-27 20:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spain's annual inflation rose to 3.3 percent in March, up from 2.3 percent the previous month, driven by higher fuel costs amid the Middle East war, preliminary data showed Friday.
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[2026-03-27 20:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Six ballistic missiles were launched towards the Riyadh region, the defence ministry spokesperson said.
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[2026-03-27 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The deadly bombing of an Iranian school on the first day of the Iran war was a "calculated" assault by the United States, Iran's foreign minister said Friday.
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[2026-03-27 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘To support or not to support Ukraine can also have an impact on Taiwan and the security situation in the Indo-Pacific’: Pistorius
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[2026-03-27 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s maritime sector still relies on overseas legal and financial service providers, a potential strategic vulnerability in a turbulent world
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[2026-03-27 19:57 UTC+10:00] [Asean] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Military activities are hampering the transition towards renewable energy, with data transparency lacking among major defence spenders
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[2026-03-27 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran’s Red Crescent is searching for survivors “trapped under the rubble” after US-Israeli strikes on the capital, Tehran, and a deadly assault on the city of Qom.
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[2026-03-27 19:45 UTC+10:00] [Lebanon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Israeli jets hit Tehran’s missile hubs while more US troops head to the Middle East
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[2026-03-27 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Five years after the Myanmar military coup, the country is still in a brutal civil war. So, what’s happening in Myanmar now, and why has the conflict received so little global attention? Reporting by Nicholas Maher for ABC News Loop.
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[2026-03-27 19:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Indian government's tax revenues have taken a "huge hit" after New Delhi slashed central excise duties on fuel for domestic consumption, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said Friday.The Indian government late Thursday cut central excise duties on petrol and diesel for domestic consumption by 10 rupees ($0.11) per liter each, to keep pump prices from rising as the Iran war disrupts global energy supplies.
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[2026-03-27 19:44 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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[2026-03-27 19:16 UTC+10:00] [Saudi Arabia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said to view US-Israeli war as ‘historic opportunity’ to remake Middle East
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[2026-03-27 19:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The legal team for former president Rodrigo Duterte has dismissed a prosecution request as 'unnecessary,' pushing back against what it described as implied insinuations of professional misconduct.
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[2026-03-27 19:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: “A bit” is what United States President Donald Trump thinks about the scale of Russia’s military aid to Iran.
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[2026-03-27 19:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Economy Minister appointed deputy Spanish PM, Nato says Spain is meeting defence targets, Spanish motorways face busiest Easter in two decades and more news on Friday March 27th.
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[2026-03-27 18:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel’s opposition says military forces are ‘in collapse’
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[2026-03-27 18:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry says its forces have intercepted 12 drones in the eastern region of the country since the early hours of Friday.
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[2026-03-27 18:28 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-27 18:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump, left, listens as Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, on Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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[2026-03-27 18:25 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean stocks closed a tad lower Friday after paring most of their earlier losses amid the United States' mixed signals on its war against Iran and eased concerns over the chipmaking industry. The local currency lost ground against the greenback.
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[2026-03-27 18:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: European stocks are expected to open higher on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump extended the ongoing hiatus of attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure.
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[2026-03-27 18:11 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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[2026-03-27 17:51 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The quota cut for subsidised petrol reflects how the distant war is affecting Malaysia, with the food industry also sounding the alarm
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[2026-03-27 17:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army said in a statement that it targeted Iranian military infrastructure overnight, including missile launchers and storage sites.
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[2026-03-27 17:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The ongoing conflict in the Middle East threatens to cripple Kenya’s floriculture sector as growers now report up to $1.4million in weekly losses.
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[2026-03-27 17:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the war enters day 28, United States President Donald Trump has delayed planned attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure by 10 days until April 6, saying peace talks are going “very well” – even as Iranian officials describe a US proposal as “one-sided and unfair”.
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[2026-03-27 17:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mothers in a displacement camp in southern Somalia struggle to keep their children alive as drought and aid disruptions deepen hunger, a crisis that now also has a link to the far-away Iran war. (AP Video: Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
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[2026-03-27 17:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday kicked off a surprise visit to Saudi Arabia, seeking support for Kyiv as the U.S. reportedly weighs shifting military resources to the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran.
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[2026-03-27 17:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Relatives grieve an Iraqi soldier killed in a strike Wednesday on a military clinic in western Iraq’s Anbar province, during a mass procession inside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
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[2026-03-27 17:12 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: No, it’s not US President Trump’s countdown to power plant strikes in Iran and no, it’s unfortunately not the countdown to blastoff of SpaceX’s reported $100 billion IPO – a valuation likely to be in the trillions with a ‘T’.
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[2026-03-27 17:07 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A man in his 30s who is serving prison time for making false terrorism warnings against five major South Korean airports has been ordered to pay 29.3 million won ($20,000) to the state to compensate for related losses, court officials said Friday.
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[2026-03-27 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Foreign investors are on track to pull a record $12 billion from Indian equities this March as the Iran war disrupts oil and gas supplies, squeezing the economy and stoking fears of a growth slowdown.
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[2026-03-27 17:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Since the pandemic, private equity funds focused on Asia have struggled to raise money, as the industry sat on massive unsold assets and idle dry powder.
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[2026-03-27 16:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military ordered the forced evacuation of residents of the village of Sajd in southern Lebanon, saying Israeli forces will “act against it forcefully”.
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[2026-03-27 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iran has allowed Malaysian ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Malaysia’s leader said, amid the global energy crunch driven by the United States and Israel’s war with Tehran.
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[2026-03-27 16:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Stocks fell sharply Thursday, and oil prices rose as doubt took over again from hope on Wall Street about a possible end to the war with Iran.
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[2026-03-27 16:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Lebanese National News Agency said that Israeli war planes attacked a house nearby Qlaileh, located in the southern city of Tyre.
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[2026-03-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Paris] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Drop into any of the French capital’s ‘third places’ and you’ll find food, culture, community – and an antidote to the disaffection extremists feed on
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[2026-03-27 15:57 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A powerful cyclone has forced production cuts across key Australian gas export plants, adding pressure to global energy markets already in short supply due to the war in the Middle East choking oil and gas flows.
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[2026-03-27 15:57 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A powerful cyclone has forced production cuts across key Australian gas export plants, adding pressure to global energy markets already in short supply due to the war in the Middle East choking oil and gas flows.
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[2026-03-27 15:52 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Two ice cream shop firebombings are at the centre of the latest wave of violence tied to the so-called “tobacco war”, with barbers and cafes along busy shopping strips also targeted.
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[2026-03-27 15:48 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong authorities crack down on yet another local case of contraband fuel amid oil price surge caused by US-Israel war against Iran
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[2026-03-27 15:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Wall Street banks may finally be getting a long-awaited opening to claw back market share from private credit lenders.
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[2026-03-27 15:35 UTC+10:00] [Xinjiang] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From a fuel crisis gripping Southeast Asia to an elderly Chinese man’s undying love, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting
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[2026-03-27 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Bruce Springsteen performs at a campaign rally supporting Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Oct. 28, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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[2026-03-27 15:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Attendees cheer as White House Border Czar Tom Homan exits the stage during Conservative Political Action Committee at Gaylord Texan Resort and Conference Center, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Grapevine, Texas. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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[2026-03-27 15:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, in Le Bourget, France, early Friday, March 27, 2026, to take part in the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-27 15:04 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong property] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Price gains accelerated in February, according to official government index, but interest-rate risk looms, analysts say
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[2026-03-27 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Soldiers stand in formation during a vigil in memory of the victims of a military cargo plane crash in Puerto Leguizamo, at the Monument to the Fallen Heroes in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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