Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-20 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran intensified its attacks on oil and natural gas facilities around the Gulf on Thursday, raising the stakes in a war that is sending shock waves through the global economy.
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[2026-03-20 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The war in the Middle East could pose a threat to the semiconductor industry and other sectors dependent on a resource produced in the Gulf — helium.
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[2026-03-20 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Major international airlines are continuing to suspend flights to Israel amid the country’s ongoing war with Iran.
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[2026-03-20 02:02 UTC+10:00] [Pete Hegseth] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US defense secretary suggests Thursday will be ‘largest strike package yet … death and destruction from above’
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[2026-03-20 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: N'DJAMENA, Chad — A drone from war-torn Sudan killed 17 people when it bombed the border town of Tine in eastern Chad, the Chadian government said Thursday.
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[2026-03-20 01:46 UTC+10:00] [R.Politik] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ilya Remeslo made a career calling out Putin’s critics until an abrupt about-turn saw him denouncing the Russian leader as a ‘war criminal’
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[2026-03-20 01:38 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts discussed the confirmation hearing for Trump’s new homeland security pick, the about-face by Republicans on Iran and the war’s sticker-shock for ordinary Americans
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[2026-03-20 01:33 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-20 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Thousands of high-end cars being shipped from Japan and destined for Dubai have been dropped off on the Kenyan island of Lamu, port authorities said, as the Mideast war provides a boost to African shipping hubs.
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[2026-03-20 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British MPs have raised concerns over Israel's new ambassador to the UK after he was accused of obstructing an investigation into leaks of classified information during the war on Gaza.
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[2026-03-20 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A correspondent and cameraman of the Kremlin-funded news network RT were injured in a missile strike while reporting in southern Lebanon on Thursday.
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[2026-03-20 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told the intelligence committee during a hearing on Thursday that America and Israel do not share the same war aims in Iran.
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[2026-03-20 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent, who resigned this week in protest over the US-Israeli war on Iran, is under FBI investigation, according to Semafor.
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[2026-03-20 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent, who resigned this week in protest over the US-Israeli war on Iran, is under FBI investigation, according to Semafor.
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[2026-03-20 01:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Starmer is in zugzwang. Mandelson arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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[2026-03-20 01:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US leaders anticipated a walkover. Now they’re embroiled in a conflict that could hasten the end of US economic dominance
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[2026-03-20 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Petrol prices] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fuel retailers put on notice as watchdog promises to come down hard on those doing the wrong thing
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[2026-03-20 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Global economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Iran war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy, report says
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[2026-03-20 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As confidence in America’s defence guarantee erodes, Gulf states are now weighing a more multifaceted strategy, analysts say
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[2026-03-20 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Outlander‘s final season finds Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) facing the reality that at some point, one of them will die. Jamie has discovered — by reading Frank Randall’s (Tobias Menzies) history book from the future — that he is supposed to die in a year’s time at a Revolutionary War battle at King’s Mountain.
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[2026-03-20 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The European Central Bank is pictured in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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[2026-03-20 00:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The price of gas has increased significantly since Iran’s attack on Qatar’s Ras Laffan complex, which disrupted around 20 percent of global natural gas flows.
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[2026-03-20 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A drone attack launched from Sudan has killed 17 people in Chad, according to the Chadian government, which has pledged to retaliate against any further strikes as the civil war in the neighbouring nation rages on.
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[2026-03-20 00:30 UTC+10:00] [Capital Economics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With worries over the Iran war driving down stock prices, the People’s Bank of China has named market stability as a ‘major task’ in 2026
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[2026-03-20 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The FBI has opened an investigation into a senior US counterterrorism official who recently quit in protest at the war on Iran, for allegedly leaking classified information.
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[2026-03-20 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An elderly man ties a gas cylinder to his scooter after collecting it from a depot in New Delhi, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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[2026-03-20 00:12 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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[2026-03-19 23:58 UTC+10:00] [Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A major Chinese military scientist has been wiped from the official site of the nation’s top scientific body
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[2026-03-19 23:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US and Israeli strikes have killed several people, including four taekwondo athletes, this morning in the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported.
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[2026-03-19 23:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Unidentified drones have been spotted above a US military base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth live, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing sources. The report comes as Tehran has vowed retaliation to continued US-Israel strikes on Iran, many of which have targeted senior officials.
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[2026-03-19 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that the Pentagon's reported $200 billion budget request for Iran war funding "could move."
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[2026-03-19 23:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned "in the strongest terms" Iranian strikes on Qatar's main gas hub, the world's largest liquefied natural gas facility.
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[2026-03-19 23:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth chided that Iranian leadership positions in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij paramilitary are “temp jobs” now.
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[2026-03-19 23:30 UTC+10:00] [Marco Rubio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US actions threaten China’s energy security, expose supply chokepoints and raise nuclear proliferation risks in its neighbourhood
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[2026-03-19 23:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that the United States' objectives in the war against Iran have not changed since strikes started on 28 February.
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[2026-03-19 23:25 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Conflict has also hit global fertiliser supplies, prompting Manila to seek assurances that Beijing would continue exports
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[2026-03-19 23:19 UTC+10:00] [Namita Joshi] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Generic slimming drugs are expected to flood a market where one in four adults are currently either overweight or obese
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[2026-03-19 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: China said on Thursday that peaceful reunification with Taiwan would help ease the island’s energy supply risks stemming from the Israeli-US war on Iran, according to Al Jazeera.
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[2026-03-19 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tehran has effectively acknowledged Ukraine as a legitimate military target. Ibrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission, made this statement in a post on X. The next day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of involvement in the conflict. In diplomatic terms, this indicates that Tehran aligns Kiev’s actions with those of the aggressors: the US and Israel.
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[2026-03-19 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tehran has effectively acknowledged Ukraine as a legitimate military target. Ibrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission, made this statement in a post on X. The next day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of involvement in the conflict. In diplomatic terms, this indicates that Tehran aligns Kiev’s actions with those of the aggressors: the US and Israel.
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[2026-03-19 23:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: From Venezuela to the Middle East, this is gangsterism fused with colonialism. It repudiates the moral language through which US power once justified itself
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[2026-03-19 22:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A pregnant Palestinian woman died on Thursday in the occupied West Bank from shrapnel wounds sustained after an Iranian missile attack, bringing the death toll from the incident to four, the Ramallah-based health ministry said.
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[2026-03-19 22:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the United States-Israeli war on Iran approaches its fourth week after unleashing chaos across the Middle East, foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries have convened for urgent discussions in Saudi Arabia.
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[2026-03-19 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump greets Col. Matha “Jeannie” Sasnett, commander of Air Force Mortuary Affairs, as he arrives on Air Force One, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., to attend the casualty return for the six crew members of an Air Force refueling aircraft who died when their plane crashed in western Iraq while supporting operations against Iran.
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[2026-03-19 22:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's intelligence ministry has arrested 97 people for being "soldiers of Israel", state media reported on Thursday, in the latest round of a security sweep that has seen hundreds detained over alleged linked to Israel and the US since the start of the war.
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[2026-03-19 22:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: RT correspondent Steve Sweeney and his cameraman have been injured in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Sweeney said an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at their car as it crossed a bridge near a military base.
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[2026-03-19 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Pentagon is seeking more than $200 billion from Congress to fund the Iran war, the Washington Post reports, citing a senior administration official and sources familiar with the matter.
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[2026-03-19 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli air strikes killed two people and wounded eight others in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district, the National News Agency reported.
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[2026-03-19 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Benchmark Brent oil prices jumped above $119 a barrel on Thursday after Iran attacked energy facilities across the Middle East following Israel’s strike on its South Pars gas field, a major escalation in the war.
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[2026-03-19 22:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Joe Kent, the former Trump administration intelligence official who resigned this week in protest of the war in Iran, is being investigated by the FBI. The probe predates Kent’s departure as director of the National Counterterrorism Center and centers on allegations he improperly shared classified information, Semafor reported on Wednesday.
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