Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-21 09:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Joe Kent, Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, speaks during a congressional debate at KATU studios Oct. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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[2026-03-21 09:14 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
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[2026-03-21 08:59 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: One person survived and two were killed, the military said, who were turned over to Costa Rican coast guard
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[2026-03-21 08:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Adam Schein may have dropped his first Adam Bomb.
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[2026-03-21 08:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: President Donald Trump said on Friday the US was getting very close to meeting its objectives and called on countries that use the Strait of Hormuz to guard and police it "as necessary."
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[2026-03-21 08:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales
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[2026-03-21 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A person holds a sign opposing the new U.S. House districts passed by the Missouri General Assembly during a protest outside the state Capitol, in Jefferson City, Mo., Tuesday, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
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[2026-03-21 08:18 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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[2026-03-21 08:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The closure of Christianity’s holiest shrine in Jerusalem to pilgrims amid the escalating Middle East war is not expected to halt the traditional Holy Fire ceremony that marks the start of Orthodox Easter, a senior Russian cleric has said.
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[2026-03-21 08:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US Department of War has produced detailed plans involving the use of ground troops in the war on Iran, CBS News reported on Friday, citing unnamed officials.
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[2026-03-21 08:15 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-03-21 07:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the country will “exercise our legitimate right to self-defence” in response to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to allow the US to use UK bases to carry out strikes on Iranian missile sites targeting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-03-21 07:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US Department of War has produced detailed plans involving the use of ground troops in the war on Iran, CBS News reported on Friday, citing unnamed officials.
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[2026-03-21 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States military has announced that it attacked another alleged drug trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific.
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[2026-03-21 07:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Kayvon Pourmirzaie and his wife, Behnaz Almazi, eat a tahdig-like pasta dish, based on a classic Iranian crispy rice dish, during a Persian pop-up dinner to celebrate Nowruz in New York on Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/J.M. Hirsch)
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[2026-03-21 07:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Damage to a critical Qatari facility is threatening to keep energy prices high around the world even if the war in Iran ends soon in what some analysts are calling an “Armageddon” situation.
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[2026-03-21 07:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and outgoing Finance Minister Fernando Haddad shake hands during a ceremony announcing Haddad’s candidacy for governor of Sao Paulo state in the October elections, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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[2026-03-21 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Earlier this month, Elbridge Colby, a senior official in the US Department of War, held a call with Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman, who is also the brother and top adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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[2026-03-21 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv — who worked for decades to establish an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church that was free from Moscow’s religious authority, a schism that foreshadowed the Russia-Ukraine war — died Friday. He was 97.
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[2026-03-21 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday he is not interested in a ceasefire with Iran.
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[2026-03-21 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s national legislature voluntarily delayed its sittings to give leadership to the national initiative for a weekly sacrificed working day on Wednesdays, begun this week as a fuel-saving measure. The nation’s schoolchildren have, en masse, to forego all their educational tours for the indeterminate future for the same reason.
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[2026-03-21 06:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Planes are parked at Dubai International Airport as smoke rises in the background after a drone struck a fuel tank early morning, forcing the temporary suspension of flights, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo)
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[2026-03-21 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Defence Deputy Minister Major General (Retd) Aruna Jayasekara visited Japan recently accompanied by a delegation consisting of the Navy Commander and officers representing the Sri Lanka Army, Navy and Air Force.
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[2026-03-21 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Consumers have been warned not to expect petrol prices to drop quickly when the Iran war ends. (ABC News: Chris Taylor)
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[2026-03-21 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Consumers have been warned not to expect petrol prices to drop quickly when the Iran war ends. (ABC News: Chris Taylor)
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[2026-03-21 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: As the Iran War intensifies, oil, or rather the lack of it, has become a key talking point. The de-facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has blocked 20 percent of the world’s oil supply (almost 20 million barrels per day), which has mainly affected countries such as Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Australia.
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[2026-03-21 06:28 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Intensified Israeli strikes and sweeping evacuation orders across Lebanon have left more than one million people displaced. Some are unsure when they will return home — or whether anything remains. Source: SBS News
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[2026-03-21 06:23 UTC+10:00] [Mediterranean] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Christians, in particular, were angered by the Israeli PM’s remarks, which some say suggest a ‘might is right’ approach
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[2026-03-21 06:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Iranian authorities have sharply restricted access to the internet.
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[2026-03-21 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As the war in the Middle East continues, intelligence gathered by the Pentagon is being analysed by technology from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, on a system run by the data analytics firm Palantir.
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[2026-03-21 05:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-03-21 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: When Donald Trump bombed Iran's nuclear facilities last year, he set in motion a plan the "thinkers" inside the Iranian regime had long been devising. It's now in play and it all comes down to a stretch of water that, at its narrowest point, is little more than 30 kilometres wide.
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[2026-03-21 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iraq has declared force majeure on all oil fields developed by foreign oil companies, as military operations in the region have disrupted navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, preventing most of the country's crude exports from moving, oil ministry sources said.
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[2026-03-21 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The battlefield determines who prevails. Yet long before that verdict is rendered, another contest unfolds: over how the war itself is to be understood. From a plurality of competing explanations, a single narrative, or at least a dominant theme, gradually crystallizes and comes to define the conflict.
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[2026-03-21 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The battlefield determines who prevails. Yet long before that verdict is rendered, another contest unfolds: over how the war itself is to be understood. From a plurality of competing explanations, a single narrative, or at least a dominant theme, gradually crystallizes and comes to define the conflict.
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[2026-03-21 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Iran is celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, during wartime for the first time since the 1980s, when neighbouring Iraq launched a full-scale invasion, leading to eight years of war.
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[2026-03-21 05:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The British government has partially reversed course and allowed the US to use its bases to carry out airstrikes aimed at clearing the Strait of Hormuz of Iranian obstacles.
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[2026-03-21 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Navy, left, and Army line up for the snap at the line of scrimmage during the first quarter of an NCAA football game at Gillette Stadium Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)
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[2026-03-21 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An anti-Zionist group has claimed responsibility for a fire at a warehouse belonging to a defense firm linked to Israel’s Elbit Systems in the Czech Republic.
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[2026-03-21 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An anti-Zionist group has claimed responsibility for a fire at a warehouse belonging to a defense firm allegedly linked to Israel’s Elbit Systems in the Czech Republic. The company, however, has denied any ties to Israel, insisting its production primarily flows to Ukraine.
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[2026-03-21 04:57 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-21 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Hawaii doctor accused of trying to kill his wife on a hiking trail by bashing her head in with a rock claims he was acting in self-defense after they got into a fight over her cheating with a co-worker.
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[2026-03-21 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry says it intercepted and destroyed three drones in the Eastern Province.
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[2026-03-21 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: It’s officially the first day of spring, and with it comes anticipation of the spring selling season.
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[2026-03-21 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Iranian authorities have sharply restricted access to the internet.
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[2026-03-21 04:29 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-21 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The annual Army-Navy football game is going exclusive.
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[2026-03-21 04:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli warplanes have carried out air strikes targeting multiple locations in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing the Lebanese National News Agency.
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[2026-03-21 04:19 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Lawsuit alleges university violated civil rights of Jewish and Israeli people in aftermath of war in Gaza
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[2026-03-21 04:19 UTC+10:00] [IRA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The case was discontinued on the last day of a two-week trial, after what the claimants’ lawyers called an ‘extraordinary series of events’
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