Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-18 16:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford will "temporarily" pull into port after a fire on board, officials said, as the war with Iran entered its third week.
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[2026-03-18 16:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran has fired missiles and drones at several Gulf Arab nations, which have sought to intercept them, in a now-daily fallout from the United States-Israel war launched on Iran nearly three weeks ago that has engulfed the Middle East with deaths, destruction, assassinations, and an energy crisis spreading far beyond the region.
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[2026-03-18 16:50 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-18 16:46 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: $32 'Army Bomb' reportedly being traded at 500% of its retail price on second-hand markets
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[2026-03-18 16:46 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: King Frederik and Queen Mary arrive to a standing ovation at Melbourne’s Sofitel, opening a Denmark–Australia forum on green energy, trade and security cooperation. Behind the warm welcome was a harder edge, a new defence-linked deal, closer ties, and a warning of “troublesome days” ahead from the King.Credit:Justin McManus
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[2026-03-18 16:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces struck multiple locations across Lebanon, including the eastern Bekaa Valley and central Beirut, according to local media reports.
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[2026-03-18 16:36 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-03-18 16:35 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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[2026-03-18 16:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Donald Trump has been calling on US allies to help end Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. (Reuters: Kevin Lamarque)
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[2026-03-18 16:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hedge funds are getting battered by the fallout from the escalating conflict with Iran, as a sharp spike in oil prices and a broad market selloff unravel crowded trades.
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[2026-03-18 16:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An Israeli airstrike has struck an apartment building in Bachoura, central Beirut. The Israeli army had warned residents in the building to evacuate about an hour before completely flattening it as day broke. (AP video by: Fadi Tawil; Production by: Sally Abou AlJoud)
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[2026-03-18 16:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Bushehr, Iran, Dec. 7, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
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[2026-03-18 16:08 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Aircraft carrier has been participating in strikes on Iran, after previously taking part in the operation to seize Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro
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[2026-03-18 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Iran nuclear deal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Negotiators had reached agreement on key issues despite Trump team’s idiosyncratic approach. Two days later, war began
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[2026-03-18 15:59 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts said combination of Iran war and new date for Trump’s visit to Beijing could put Japan’s leader on the defensive.
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[2026-03-18 15:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Iranian missile barrage killed two people near Tel Aviv, medics said, as air raid sirens sounded across central Israel and falling munitions struck multiple locations, AFP reported.
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[2026-03-18 15:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Both security official Ali Larijani and Gen. Gholam Reza Soleimani were “eliminated last night,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement. Iranian state media did not immediately confirm either death.
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[2026-03-18 15:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who is yet to appear in public, vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths since the start of the war with the US and Israel, in a statement read out by a presenter on state TV.
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[2026-03-18 15:44 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Most Australians want the country to stay entirely out of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, with an overwhelming majority worried by the conflict’s impact on cost of living in Australia.
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[2026-03-18 15:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has confirmed he is delaying plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of the month, as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to consume most of Washington’s focus.
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[2026-03-18 15:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates said its air defences intercepted missile and drone attacks from Iran for the third time on Wednesday, as Gulf countries continue responding to repeated aerial threats.
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[2026-03-18 15:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard exits the House chamber following President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
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[2026-03-18 15:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rising fertilizer prices and potential shortages from shipping disruptions due to the Iran war have farmers bracing ahead of the spring planting season. (AP video: Nick Ingram)
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[2026-03-18 15:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, at the Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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[2026-03-18 14:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Donald Trump and billionaire Larry Ellison have been dragged into the blockbuster legal war between Hollywood fixer RJ Cipriani and Paramount president Jeff Shell in a saga straight out of a film noir.
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[2026-03-18 14:30 UTC+10:00] [Gaza] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Readers discuss Iran’s best weapon in negotiations, and how the leaders of China and the US can change the course of events in the Middle East
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[2026-03-18 14:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Donald Trump’s top counterterrorism official has resigned over the war in Iran, urging the president to “reverse course”.
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[2026-03-18 14:27 UTC+10:00] [Finance] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Think petrol prices are bad now? It's entirely possible you ain't seen nothing yet, if a worse-(but not worst)-case scenario plays out in the war in Iran.Westpac has updated its modelling on the economic impacts brought about by the conflict, particularly on energy costs.The big four bank's baseline – the scenario it thinks is most likely to play out – is the war lasts about a month, but that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz takes a further month to
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[2026-03-18 14:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. on Wednesday cautioned against profiteering and hoarding amid the ongoing war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-18 14:15 UTC+10:00] [Australian military] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prime minister says no Australian personnel were injured and maintains Australia is not at war with Iran
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[2026-03-18 14:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Buildings and cars were damaged in the central Israeli city of Holon following an Iranian missile attack, the Israeli Civil Defence said.
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[2026-03-18 14:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A man is in hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and a gunman is on the run after a brazen late-night shooting in Melbourne’s west, believed to be linked to the city’s ongoing tobacco war.
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[2026-03-18 13:58 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ali Larijhani killed in an Israeli strike; Israeli military calls for evacuations in central Beirut, warning of an imminent attack on Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah
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[2026-03-18 13:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said Israeli attacks killed six people in Beirut and another 11 in raids on southern and eastern parts of the country, with nine others wounded.
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[2026-03-18 13:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Iran intensified attacks against U.S. assets in the Middle East and Israel on Wednesday in apparent retaliation against the killing of the country's security chief Ali Larijani overnight, as the weeks-long conflict shows no signs of abating.
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[2026-03-18 13:44 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: GENEVA (AFP) -- An extra 45 million people could face acute hunger if the Middle East war rages on beyond June, swelling the number worldwide to a "terrible" high, the UN warned Tuesday.
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[2026-03-18 13:20 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed no Australian soldiers were injured after an Iranian missile struck close to an airbase they were stationed on.A road leading to the Al Minhad Air Base on the outskirts of Dubai was struck by a missile hours ago, the PM confirmed, adding that Australian personnel were stationed at the air base at the time of the attack.Speaking to media in Tasmania Albanese said all Australians on the base were accounted for.READ MORE: What are
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[2026-03-18 13:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Satellite images are beginning to be released giving a glimpse into the toll of the Iran war, with ships ablaze in an Iranian port and destroyed buildings at an American base.
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[2026-03-18 13:11 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: President Lee Jae Myung has sent letters to the leaders of Japan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia to express his gratitude for their cooperation in evacuating South Korean nationals from the Middle East, Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, with the US-Israel war with Iran destabilizing the region.
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[2026-03-18 13:08 UTC+10:00] [Anthony Albanese] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Australian prime minister says US–Israeli war on Iran has shifted the international reality, likening current economic shock to Covid pandemic and Ukraine invasion
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[2026-03-18 13:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The killing of senior Iranian officials by the US and Israel will not cripple the government, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said.
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[2026-03-18 12:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Observations for Yankees spring training on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-18 12:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: More than 200 Ukrainian military experts are in the Gulf region and wider Middle East helping governments in their defence against Iran’s drone attacks, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
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[2026-03-18 12:58 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Global airlines sounded the alarm Tuesday over soaring jet fuel prices triggered by the US-Israeli war against Iran, warning of hundreds of millions of extra costs, higher fares and cuts to some routes.
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[2026-03-18 12:56 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Zelenskyy warns British MPs of drone technology advances and future attacks; UK readies for court battle with Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. What we know on day 1,484
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[2026-03-18 12:47 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Russia and Iran “brothers in hatred” Tuesday as he sought support from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a time when the Iran war has robbed momentum from US-brokered talks to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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[2026-03-18 12:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The US military dropped 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs on underground Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, according to authorities.
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[2026-03-18 12:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said missile strikes on Tel Aviv were carried out in “revenge” for the killing of Ali Larijani and his companions.
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[2026-03-18 12:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A shooting at a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico on Tuesday has left one person dead and another wounded, according to military officials.
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[2026-03-18 12:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Taipei, Taiwan – As thousands of Chinese government officials gathered in Beijing for China’s annual legislative meetings known as the “two sessions” this month, at least a dozen active and retired military officers were absent from the proceedings.
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