Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-23 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Oil prices seesawed in volatile trading Monday as investors weighed the prospect of further escalation after President Donald Trump's ultimatum demanding Tehran reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its energy infrastructure.
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[2026-03-23 17:05 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: For over a decade, I’ve navigated the complexities of North Korean affairs, security, and foreign policy from both Seoul and Washington, D.C. As the National Desk Political Team Lead, I track the pulse of geopolitics, closely following developments from the Unification Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. My mornings start with Rodong Sinmun—North Korea’s state mouthpiece—before diving into the day’s headlines from Seoul and Washington.
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[2026-03-23 17:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hit
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[2026-03-23 16:59 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-03-23 16:52 UTC+10:00] [Japan] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she has explained to Trump that there are limits to what Japan can do due to legal constraints
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[2026-03-23 16:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Nearly 50 years after the Argentina’s 1976 coup that led to a repressive dictatorship, families are still searching for and burying the disappeared. Recently, relatives in northern Argentina laid to rest a young couple identified from a clandestine mass grave, showing both progress and limits in the search. (AP video shot by: Victor R.
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[2026-03-23 16:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has shared a comedy skit portraying UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as terrified of speaking to him on the phone. The move came after Trump labeled European NATO members “cowards” and described Starmer as “no Winston Churchill” for not joining his war with Iran.
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[2026-03-23 16:04 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fatih Birol says effect on energy markets of Iran bombings and closure of Hormuz strait not initially understood by world leaders
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[2026-03-23 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Housing] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan plans to simplify the housebuilding process to tackle shortage of 400,000 homes
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[2026-03-23 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Art and design] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The great sculptor worked as a war artist in the 1940s, sketching people sheltering from bombings. Now his powerful underground drawings are opening the vast, renovated sheep barn gallery at his Arcadian home
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[2026-03-23 15:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: As the war in the Middle East entered its fourth week, Iran has widened its warnings to target buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, the latest salvo in an intensifying exchange of threats, as the Trump administration's 48-hour ultimatum neared expiry.
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[2026-03-23 15:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Holy sites across Jerusalem’s Old City, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Western Wall, remained closed on Sunday under Israeli security restrictions as the war on Iran, launched by the United States and Israel, enters its fourth week. (AP video by Shlomo Mor)
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[2026-03-23 15:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Saint Joseph’s at Navy — ESPN Select, ESPN Unlimited
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[2026-03-23 15:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — A prolonged war in the Middle East would jack up the cost of holding the parliamentary elections in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) by as much as 25%, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday.
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[2026-03-23 14:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Diplomats and experts in Seoul warned that war in Ukraine is reshaping the global security landscape and raising new risks for the Korean Peninsula, as military ties deepen between Russia and North Korea, at a panel discussion Friday.
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[2026-03-23 14:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: International Energy Agency (IEA) director, Fatih Birol, speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra, said the global economy is facing a “major, major threat” as the energy crisis deepens amid the Middle East conflict.
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[2026-03-23 14:26 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fatih Birol says world is losing 11m barrels of oil per day, more than the 1973 and 1979 energy shocks combined; IRGC threatens to completely close strait of Hormuz if Trump acts on infrastructure threats
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[2026-03-23 14:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a ballistic missile launched toward the Riyadh region, while another missile fell in an uninhabited area, according to the defence ministry.
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[2026-03-23 14:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Powerful explosions described as “unprecedented” were reported across eastern Tehran, with Iranian air defence systems activated, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
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[2026-03-23 14:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Asian markets fell sharply on Monday as fears over the economic impact of the Middle East war rattled investors and pushed oil prices above $110 a barrel.
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[2026-03-23 13:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: As we enter the fourth week of the Iran war (or “excursion”), here are two great ideas about how to deal with some of the consequences — both from outside the Beltway.
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[2026-03-23 13:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Powerful explosions were reported across central, southern and eastern Tehran, with Iranian air defence systems activated throughout the capital, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
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[2026-03-23 13:17 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Ukrainian and US delegations concluded a second day of talks in Florida on finding ways to end the four-year war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday.
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[2026-03-23 13:09 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but Iran has threatened to target desalination plants after it said its own water and energy infrastructure had sustained damage in the ongoing war with Israel and the US.
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[2026-03-23 13:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Libya’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadiq al-Ghariani called on Muslims to support Iran amid the ongoing war with the United States and Israel, warning that foreign military presence in Arab countries brings instability.
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[2026-03-23 13:04 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The US may need to "escalate" its attacks against Iran to be able to wind down the war, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump gave seemingly contradictory trajectories for the US military campaign.
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[2026-03-23 12:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Gulf states activated air defences as missile and drone threats were reported across the region, with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait all responding to incoming attacks.
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[2026-03-23 12:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday welcomed back the fourth batch of Filipinos repatriated from the Middle East.
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[2026-03-23 12:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US state department issued an advisory for Americans abroad, especially in the Middle East, “to exercise increased caution” amid rising tensions linked to the war with Iran.
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[2026-03-23 12:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called an emergency meeting to address the economic fallout from the ongoing war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-23 12:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it launched its 75th wave of missile attacks targeting Israeli and US positions, as Israeli media reported strikes in central and southern areas, including attempts to intercept missiles over Negev.
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[2026-03-23 11:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that strikes around nuclear sites in Iran and Israel have pushed the war to a “perilous stage.”
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[2026-03-23 11:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s military said it is investigating whether its own fire may have killed an Israeli civilian near the Lebanese border, in an area where Hezbollah had claimed an attack.
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[2026-03-23 11:48 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As the war in Iran enters its fourth week and US operations increasingly focus on global energy flows, Tehran is rebuffing efforts to identify a diplomatic off-ramp from the war launched by the United States and Israel, according to officials in the region.
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[2026-03-23 11:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — At war with Iran, President Donald Trump is cycling through an increasingly desperate list of options as he searches for a solution to the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. He has jumped from calls to secure the waterway through diplomatic means to lifting sanctions and now escalating to a direct threat against civilian infrastructure in the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-03-23 11:30 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Russia ‘taking advantage of more favourable weather conditions’ Zelenskyy says; Witkoff says progress made during discussions in Florida. What we know on day 1,489
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[2026-03-23 11:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Monday faces a deadline by President Donald Trump to open up the crucial Strait of Hormuz or face a major US assault on power plants, as Israel warned of weeks more of war.
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[2026-03-23 11:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz has refused to rule out potential strikes on an Iranian nuclear power plant when asked by CBS about the extent of President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-03-23 11:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Asia-Pacific markets were set to fall on Monday as investors weighed escalating tensions in the Middle East after the U.S. and Iran threatened to intensify military hostilities as the war entered its fourth week.
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[2026-03-23 11:00 UTC+10:00] [FOIP] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Defence and minerals to dominate the agenda as Tokyo offers hi-tech warships and energy pacts to secure Indonesia as a ‘trusted partner’
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[2026-03-23 10:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Tearful farewells played out across Southern California last week as thousands of Marines shipped out to the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran.
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[2026-03-23 10:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Industrial Action
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[2026-03-23 10:43 UTC+10:00] [British] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Britain’s high inflation, stretched public finances and dependence on imported natural gas have pushed its government bonds into a decline
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[2026-03-23 10:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said interceptors were launched in both cases of Iranian missile fire on Saturday but failed to stop the incoming attack.
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[2026-03-23 10:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran warned it would target energy and water infrastructure across the Middle East following US President Donald Trump’s Saturday threat to strike Iran’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz is fully reopened within 48 hours.
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[2026-03-23 09:35 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Several Asian countries are urging office workers to work from home amid fuel supply issues caused by the war in the Middle East. Source: Getty
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[2026-03-23 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The screenlife subgenre is officially enshittified thanks to Mercy (now on Amazon Prime Video), an empty-skulled thriller that gives us the deeply unstimulating pleasure of watching Chris Pratt sit in a chair for 90 minutes, talking to an AI bot played by Rebecca Ferguson. Furthering the headscratching nature of this project, it’s the new directorial effort by Timur Bekmambetov, whose career has curiously shifted from admirably OTT stylized action films (Night Watch, Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) to producing and/or
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[2026-03-23 08:13 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-23 07:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame’s Ahmed Hesham won the men’s saber on Sunday, and the Fighting Irish men joined the women in winning the inaugural three-weapon national championship at the Joyce Center.
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[2026-03-23 07:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: For those old enough to remember the first Gulf War (1990-91), the scenes feel painfully familiar: Smoke rising over Tehran. Babies carried out of a bombed-out hospital in incubators. Missiles striking cities across the Middle East. Oil markets in turmoil as Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz. The war of choice that began with Israeli and American strikes on Iran is widening by the hour, pulling in multiple countries, including NATO allies, and producing casualties that mount by
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