Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-26 14:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has implemented austerity measures in connnection with the President's declaration of a state of national energy emergency to ease the impact of the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-26 14:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Australia has temporarily banned visitors from Iran, claiming that the United States-Israeli war on the country has increased the risk that Iranian passport holders could refuse or be unable to fly home once their short-term visitor visas expire.
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[2026-03-26 14:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Humanitarian organizations under intense strain because of the US' steep cuts to foreign aid say they are scrambling to find the funds needed to respond to the war in the Middle East, where millions of people have already been displaced by the widening conflict.
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[2026-03-26 14:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BEIRUT (AFP) -- Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said Wednesday that negotiating with Israel under fire would amount to "surrender" for Lebanon, as Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces were "expanding" a "buffer zone" in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-26 14:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has told associates in recent days that he wants to avoid a prolonged war in Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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[2026-03-26 14:02 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BAGHDAD (AFP) -- Iraq has long walked a tightrope between the competing interests of the US and its neighbor Iran, but the Middle East war is testing this delicate balancing act.
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[2026-03-26 13:54 UTC+10:00] [Australian economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Comments come as the Albanese government said it would back an ‘economically sustainable’ above-inflation minimum wage rise
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[2026-03-26 13:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military announced on Thursday that it "completed a wide-scale wave of strikes" across Iran.
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[2026-03-26 13:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — José Caballero, de los Yankees de Nueva York, perdió el primer desafío presentado ante el llamado umpire robot de las Grandes Ligas de Béisbol, al apelar sin éxito un strike lanzado por el abridor derecho de los Gigantes de San Francisco, Logan Webb, en el juego inaugural de la temporada la noche del miércoles.
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[2026-03-26 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political advisor has questioned Iran's willingness to negotiate an end to the war in an interview with CNN.
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[2026-03-26 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BUDAPEST, Hungary (Reuters) -- Hungary will gradually stop sending natural gas to Ukraine until crude oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline resume, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Wednesday, escalating a standoff with Kyiv over energy supplies disrupted by the Ukraine war.
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[2026-03-26 12:54 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday portrayed a nuclear-armed Iran as a "cancer," saying the United States has "cut it out" through its ongoing military operation against the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-03-26 12:52 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The ruling Democratic Party and the government agreed to submit an extra budget bill to the National Assembly next week, the budget minister said Thursday, in an effort to cushion vulnerable sectors from the economic impacts of a prolonged war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-26 12:48 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-03-26 12:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Remember the $640 toilet seat covers, $435 hammers, and $7,600 coffee makers — all billed to federal taxpayers in a 1980s defense-procurement scandal for the ages?
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[2026-03-26 12:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia's defence ministry said it intercepted and destroyed 8 drones in the Kingdom's eastern region.
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[2026-03-26 12:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Oil prices rose Thursday after Iran signaled it had no intention of holding direct talks with the United States, even as a U.S. proposal to end the war is under review by senior officials in Tehran, according to remarks from the Islamic Republic's foreign minister.
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[2026-03-26 12:11 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukrainian president says peace deal proposed by US included ceding land to Russia. What we know on day 1,492
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[2026-03-26 12:05 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Navy launched maneuvering drills this week to honor service members killed during naval clashes with North Korea in the Yellow Sea and sharpen its combat readiness posture, the armed service said Thursday.
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[2026-03-26 12:04 UTC+10:00] [Singapore] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The tax, which depends on the class of travel or length of flight, will now be rolled out on October 1
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[2026-03-26 12:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: Speaking with the Australian Politics podcast, the Liberal frontbencher says a sovereign wealth fund would set Australians up for generations to come
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[2026-03-26 11:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The U.S. military said it carried out a strike Wednesday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people, as the Trump administration pushes forward with a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America while waging a war against Iran.
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[2026-03-26 11:50 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: March 26, 2026 — 11:50am
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[2026-03-26 11:45 UTC+10:00] [CLP Power] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong’s largest electricity supplier attributes rise to changes in actual fuel prices following start of US-Israel war against Iran
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[2026-03-26 11:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The tenacious families of social media victims celebrated the landmark verdict Wednesday that determined Meta and Google design their platforms to be addictive — but insisted that the “war is not over yet.”
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[2026-03-26 11:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SYDNEY — Australia banned visitors from Iran on Thursday, saying war in the Middle East increased the risk they would refuse to fly home once their short-term visas expired.
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[2026-03-26 11:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon's Hezbollah has announced the targeting of the Israeli Ministry of Defense headquarters in central Tel Aviv with advanced missiles.
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[2026-03-26 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Al-Nassr] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Jeddah will host western zone play-offs rescheduled because of the Middle Eastern war on April 13-14, as well as the tournament’s final stages
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[2026-03-26 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Gulf] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Disruptions from the war could accelerate a shift in the oil trade, threatening the US dollar’s long-held dominance, analysts say
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[2026-03-26 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Tokyo] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The deployment is a response to China’s military activity near Minamitorishima, a defence ministry researcher says
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[2026-03-26 11:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: The growing presence of AI fakes on social media is fuelling misleading narratives about the war in the Middle East. Source: SBS News
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[2026-03-26 10:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s health ministry said 5,165 people have been taken to hospitals since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, with 106 still receiving treatment.
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[2026-03-26 10:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Asia-Pacific markets were set to mostly fall Thursday after Iran signaled it had no intention of holding direct talks with the United States, even as Tehran reviews an American proposal to end the war, according to the Islamic Republic's foreign minister.
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[2026-03-26 10:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Sydney Sweeney shared a supportive message for military members overseas, as she revealed her own brother has been deployed.
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[2026-03-26 10:33 UTC+10:00] [Minsk] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Both nations have helped Russia in the Ukraine war, with Pyongyang providing troops and Minsk serving as a launchpad for the 2022 invasion
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[2026-03-26 10:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The White House said Wednesday that a much anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will take place in Beijing on May 14-15, after it was postponed because of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
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[2026-03-26 10:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: This war “is more necessary than doves thought and harder to wage than hawks supposed,” notes The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russell Mead.
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[2026-03-26 09:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces killed three people and wounded four in a strike on Qounine in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, the health ministry’s emergency operations centre said, according to NNA.
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[2026-03-26 09:59 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Latest strike brings number of deaths to at least 163 since attacks on alleged ‘narco-terrorists’ began in September
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[2026-03-26 09:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Four weeks after the United States and Israel launched their combined assault on Iran’s clerical regime, the war has reached a tipping point.
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[2026-03-26 09:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and research director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
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[2026-03-26 09:30 UTC+10:00] [Royal Navy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prime minister approves tougher action against shadow fleet of oil vessels attempting to evade sanctions
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[2026-03-26 09:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran has threatened to open a new front in the war and disrupt the all-important Bab al-Mandeb Strait trade route if the US invades Kharg Island.
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[2026-03-26 09:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The US Army has increased the maximum enlistment age to 42 years old and alleviated restrictions on recruiting people with prior marijuana convictions.
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[2026-03-26 09:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Yemen’s Houthi military group has reiterated its support for Tehran, while saying it is not currently taking part in the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-26 09:00 UTC+10:00] [Nicolas Maduro] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing happy to watch, wait and safeguard core interests – oil flows, Taiwan and trade – as its geopolitical rival spends resources on war
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[2026-03-26 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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[2026-03-26 08:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US Central Command released its fifth update on Operation Epic Fury claiming the campaign remains “on plan or ahead of plan” in achieving what it described as “very clear military objectives” – even as the scope and ultimate goals of the operation remain subject to interpretation.
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[2026-03-26 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Superstar Sydney Sweeney wished her Air Force brother well in a heartfelt social media post after he was deployed abroad — as tens of thousands of US troops are serving in harm’s way during the war with Iran.
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[2026-03-26 08:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Republican lawmakers emerging from a closed-door briefing on the Trump administration's war on Iran warned on Wednesday that they are not being given enough information to make informed decisions about the potential deployment of soldiers for ground combat.
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