Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-27 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A rich body of journalism, creative writing and scholarship lays bare the violence of Indian military occupation and human rights abuses in Kashmir. It is quite a feat that Kashmiris themselves, facing state surveillance and the threat of detention and violence, are producing much of this work.
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[2026-07-27 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A suspected US-made LUCAS one-way attack drone was reportedly recovered by fishermen after it was found drifting in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days. The discovery comes as US forces have expanded their use of the Iranian-style drone during the multi-month conflict, even publicizing a recent swarm attack involving explosive-laden unmanned boats against Iranian targets.
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[2026-07-27 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: local governance, justice, defense, infrastructure and agriculture generally received the strongest public assessments.
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[2026-07-27 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Live Blog Update| War on Iran This is an entry from: Live: Tehran vows to halt attacks if US maintains pauseIn photos: Aftermath of Israeli settler attacks on West Bank mosques26 July 2026 17:05 BST Ahmed Abu Mahmoud, 64, sits at a mosque burned by Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 26 July 2026 (AFP) A young Palestinian boy walks past walls daubed with Hebrew graffiti reading "revenge for Benayahu"
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[2026-07-27 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DEFENDING champion Team North heads into the 2026 ICTSI Elite Junior Philippine Golf Tour Finals determined to seize the early momentum but expects a far tougher challenge from a South squad eager to capitalize on home-course advantage when the Ryder Cup-style championship unfolds Aug. 17-20 at Pueblo Golf and Country Club in Cagayan de Oro.
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spent the week before his fifth State of the Nation Address visiting government projects and launching programs covering housing, agriculture, energy, health care, digital infrastructure, defense and public services.
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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Why the prosecution is failing in VP Sara’s impeachment trialTHE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
So far, the three prosecution witnesses, presented to prove Article IV of the impeachment complaint charging VP Sara for the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust — Senior Agent Mark Calilung, Regional Director Jeremy Lotoc and Director Melvin Matibag, all from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) — have not proved the case of the prosecution.
Calilung was presented to prove the authenticity of the video containing the online conference of VP Sara, where she uttered the remarks the prosecution regarded as grave threats and inciting to sedition, which formed the basis of the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust.
In the first place, the said conference is not in dispute nor were the utterances made there; hence, Calilung’s testimony on this matter is unnecessary and useless. His other testimony touched on the investigation he conducted at that conference. Instead of favoring the prosecution, he highlighted the fact the inquiry he made was superficial and merely for show. He limited his investigation to four participants, i.e. news reporters and a blogger. He disregarded getting information from the other reporters present to determine the environment under which VP Sara’s remarks were made.
Calilung did not coordinate with the Presidential Security Group as to whether the vice president’s statements constituted a threat to the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., nor did it coordinate with the Armed Forces of the Philippines to evaluate whether her remarks constituted a threat to national security.
Additionally, Calilung was called to the witness stand as an expert witness on cyber libel. It turned out he only trained for two weeks — hardly a training experience required of a witness before qualifying as an expert witness in a particular field. This witness could not also answer directly the questions of the defense counsel on cross-examination, dodging these — a trait that understandably and unsurprisingly characterized the manner of responses by the other two NBI witnesses.
One of them, Lotoc, was nowhere an improvement on Calilung as a witness. He effectively sunk further the prosecution’s case as he validated Calilung’s testimony that the NBI’s first and second investigations were not thorough and merely pro porma. Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that they did not investigate the threat against VP Sara’s life, apart from sending her an invitation to provide their agency information on the threat — which she declined — despite the continuing visible threat, in addition to the oppressive acts committed against her, her family, her staff and her allies, especially the withdrawal of her trusted security personnel, whose circumstances triggered her outburst, calling out the people for help on the imminence of her physical obliteration and seeking justice for her planned assassination, as well as unmasking her would-be perpetrators.
Lotoc, using his being a lawyer to full extent, hewed and dodged as he avoided answering directly the questions from the cross-examiner. He came out as an unreliable witness when he admitted that he was facing serious criminal charges of arbitrary detention and unlawful arrest at the Office of the Ombudsman, including crimes involving moral turpitude, such as theft, robbery and perjury.
Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that there were no reported seditious acts committed by various groups as a consequence of VP Sara’s allegedly seditious remarks and grave threats against President Marcos, nor was she present at anti-government rallies advocating to overthrow the government.
The third prosecution witness, Matibag, whose political somersaulting qualifies him as a political operator, thereby exposing his dubious political loyalty to a cause, is a patently biased witness. He admitted to writing three vicious, disparaging articles in the Daily Tribune against VP Sara. His wife is a member of the House of Representatives who voted to impeach the vice president. He cannot, therefore, say anything good against the respondent and would certainly testify against her, and in fact he did, with gusto.
Despite the relentless propagandizing of the prosecution team inside the impeachment court, inadvertently aided by the erroneous rulings of the presiding officer, as well as the constant black propaganda dished out in public by its allies in Congress, its case against VP Sara and obsession to remove her from office and disqualify her from running in the 2028 presidential elections has not gained a foothold, simply because there is no constitutional basis for the articles of impeachment.
Not even a foolish rant from a member of the impeachment court notorious for advocating the necessity of bending or breaking a law could help the prosecution’s losing cause. This law bender railed against his colleagues for standing up and defending themselves from malicious innuendo and evident intimidation coming from a prosecution witness and a government official who foisted the filing of cases against two senator-judges, necessarily impugning their integrity. He doesn’t even know the function of the impeachment court, which is to hear a case filed against an impeachable officer and to decide it in accordance with the law and evidence presented before it.
One begins to wonder what sins have the people committed to deserve a harebrained politician, and what graver sins they have committed, to deserve failed governance from those they have placed in power.Snippet: THE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
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[2026-07-27 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States maintains its latest pause on air strikes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday, after President Donald Trump abruptly called off his two-week-old bombing campaign.
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[2026-07-27 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Sudan's army said on Sunday that it has seized back control of a vital town and four nearby villages in the Kordofan region, alleviating some of the pressure placed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary on the city of Al Obeid.
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[2026-07-27 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian immigration and asylum] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: Tribunal accepts three siblings could face ‘persecution’ for refusing military conscription due to their political opinion on war
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[2026-07-27 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia considers it premature to comment on reports that the United States and Ukraine are discussing a possible halt to aerial attacks as part of efforts to end the war, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
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[2026-07-27 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Unreleased documentary footage shows that the late US senator Lindsey Graham spent years privately pressing US President Donald Trump and foreign leaders to overthrow Iran’s regime, at times advocating military action that went beyond what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was prepared to support, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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[2026-07-27 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Iran war will end "when the Iranian regime falls, or weakens to such an extent that it understands that it must end its nuclear program," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a Sunday interview with Fox News.
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[2026-07-27 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Even as Turkey and Egypt are having a renaissance in certain areas militarily, senior Israeli defense sources sense opportunities for Israel and Cairo to work together to counterbalance Ankara's naval interests, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
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[2026-07-27 00:44 UTC+10:00] [Romania] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: F-16 fighter jet intercepted drone in Romanian airspace over Black Sea, defence minister says
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[2026-07-27 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the country's armed forces struck a Russian warship and vessels used for transporting Iran-linked military cargo in the Caspian Sea.
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[2026-07-27 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The U.S. military says it has fired on a merchant vessel attempting to breach its blockade of Iranian ports. It’s the second commercial ship to be disabled since the military reimposed its blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-07-27 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States maintains its pause on strikes, but Tehran remains skeptical of US intentions, a senior Iranian source told Reuters on Sunday.
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[2026-07-26 23:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Laura Loomer speaks during her interview with The Associated Press, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)
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[2026-07-26 23:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israeli settlers, backed by the military, have been on a rampage in the occupied West Bank, torching at least two mosques and detaining dozens of Palestinians days after killing four of them.
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[2026-07-26 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This photo provided by Ukraine’s 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service and taken Saturday, July 25, 2026, shows the damaged center of the frontline town of Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP)
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[2026-07-26 23:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL, South Korea — World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations.
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[2026-07-26 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukraine recently carried out a strike on ships in the Caspian Sea, claiming vessels were “used in military cargo shipments involving Iran.” In addition, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Russia was provided “new assistance to the Iranian regime.”
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[2026-07-26 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A combined Iranian and Hezbollah attack on Haifa Bay, including strikes against civilian shipping near the natural harbor or gas rigs in the Mediterranean, is among several key threats Israel must now prepare for, according to a new assessment published by the Alma Research and Education Center last week.
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[2026-07-26 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: This week has witnessed more dangerous Ukraine war spillover aerial activity in Eastern Europe. In a fresh instance, Romania's defense ministry is reporting that two drones entered the country's airspace in less than 24 hours.
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[2026-07-26 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The Israeli military has launched an aggressive crackdown in the occupied West Bank, storming several towns and villages and detaining hundreds of Palestinians, amid escalating attacks by Jewish settlers, in a furious reaction to a shootout in a village near Nablus in which four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed.
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[2026-07-26 22:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Iranian military warned on Sunday that conflict could spread further across the Middle East if the US continues attacking Iran.
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[2026-07-26 22:13 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Moscow wants to bring in 30,000 additional troops from North Korea to fight alongside Russian forces in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.
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[2026-07-26 22:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The International Criminal Court (ICC) had former president Rodrigo Duterte arrested and detained at The Hague, Netherlands for crimes against humanity because of complaints filed against him by the victims of his bloody war on drugs, Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro said on Sunday.
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[2026-07-26 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The US military paused its air campaign against Iran for a second consecutive night after nearly two weeks of tit-for-tat strikes. US strikes were aimed at degrading Tehran's one-way attack drone and missile capabilities around the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran hit US bases in the region.
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[2026-07-26 21:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under ballistic missile attack from Russian forces early on Sunday, while other regions suffered bombardments later during the day that killed two people.
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[2026-07-26 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said Iran sold $11.5 billion worth of oil during the war and a further $6.5 billion during a ceasefire, when lower risks to tanker traffic helped increase exports and enabled the sale of part of around 100 million barrels of stored crude oil and gas condensate.
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[2026-07-26 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The ship Ukraine struck in the Caspian Sea on Saturday contained components for drones and missiles on their way to Iran, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said in an interview with N12 on Sunday.
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[2026-07-26 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of assisting the Iranian regime on Saturday after Iran threatened Ukraine with potential missile attacks in response to an attack on a ship in the Caspian Sea.
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[2026-07-26 21:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Iran said on Sunday it has halted retaliatory attacks against US allies in the Middle East after Washington stopped its strikes on the country for the past two nights.
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[2026-07-26 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon's army on Sunday condemned ongoing Israeli attacks in the country's south that it said were preventing its full deployment under a framework deal reached with Israel last month.
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[2026-07-26 21:32 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: A Romanian fighter jet on Sunday shot down a third drone that had entered its national air space in as many days, prompting President Nicușor Dan to blame Moscow for the "inadmissible and intolerable" incursions.
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[2026-07-26 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters on Sunday that Israel is "prepared to act more broadly" in the occupied West Bank following a surge in settler attacks and military raids against Palestinians over the weekend.
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[2026-07-26 21:16 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump weighs up his options after military chiefs warn of dwindling munitions stockpiles
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[2026-07-26 21:09 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The collapse of the rules-based order is not confined to the land: we’re imperilled as centuries of maritime cooperation sink beneath the waves
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[2026-07-26 21:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Army Radio has reported a sharp uptick in settler violence against Palestinians in the first six months of 2026.
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[2026-07-26 21:09 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: The Philippines, Japan and the U.S. completed their latest round of joint defense exercises in the South China Sea as tensions between Manila and Beijing escalate in the contested waterway.
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[2026-07-26 21:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-07-26 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran has formally accused the US of deliberately striking two of its search-and-rescue vessels in the Persian Gulf, calling the attack a war crime. The accusation comes as the US maintains a blockade of Iranian ports and continues to attack the Iranian Navy.
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[2026-07-26 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran has formally accused the US of deliberately striking two of its search-and-rescue vessels in the Persian Gulf, calling the attack a war crime. The accusation comes as the US maintains a blockade of Iranian ports and continues to attack the Iranian Navy.
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[2026-07-26 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israeli settlers and military forces carried out a wave of attacks, mass arrests and land seizures across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, in a single-day escalation that included settler arson against mosques, dozens of detentions in the northern governorates, and fresh military orders to appropriate farmland.
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[2026-07-26 20:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Philippines, Japan and the US completed their latest round of joint defense exercises in the South China Sea as tensions between Manila and Beijing escalate in the contested waterway.
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[2026-07-26 20:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel's Security Cabinet is expected to discuss on Sunday a new Gaza proposal drafted by the Board of Peace (BoP), two Israeli sources told The Jerusalem Post.
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[2026-07-26 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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