Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-13 06:01 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Rockhampton’s mayor privately urged the Queensland government to repurpose the city’s Olympic Athletes’ Village into dormitory‑style accommodation for Australian and foreign military forces after the 2032 Games.
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[2026-03-13 05:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The pace of Iran’s retaliatory strikes against the US and Israel appears to be slowing 13 days into the war, with most attacks successfully intercepted by American-made air defense systems, statistics and experts say.
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[2026-03-13 05:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has already cost more than $11.3bn in its first six days, US defence officials told senators during a closed-door briefing, according to multiple reports.
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[2026-03-13 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Somalia has warned that its territory cannot be used as a launching pad for military operations, after two media reports that said Israel is planning to establish a military base in the breakaway region of Somaliland, directly across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen.
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[2026-03-13 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Foreign Affairs
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[2026-03-13 05:47 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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[2026-03-13 05:47 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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[2026-03-13 05:47 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The economic fallout of the US-Israeli assault and Tehran’s retaliation is spreading fast, and pushing the most vulnerable towards disaster
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[2026-03-13 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: JERUSALEM — Israel's military said Thursday it had struck checkpoints set up in Tehran by the Basij paramilitary force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, as part of efforts to undermine control by the authorities.
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[2026-03-13 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke rises from a building targeted by an Israeli strike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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[2026-03-13 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California residents spotted another ominous plane, the Navy’s “submarine hunter,” zooming over Fresno Tuesday night.
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[2026-03-13 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mountain ranges stand strong here, unchanged despite years of fighting.
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[2026-03-13 05:39 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our live rolling coverage of the conflict in the Middle East, this Friday March 13.
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[2026-03-13 05:20 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: With no clear end in sight, the war with Iran is sending oil prices back to $US100 per barrel, and stocks are sinking worldwide.
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[2026-03-13 05:15 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-13 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has accused EU leaders of weakness over the US-Israeli war on Iran, warning that Brussels’ “servile” attitude toward US President Donald Trump risks fueling Euroskeptic sentiment.
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[2026-03-13 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Diaz has accused EU leaders of weakness over the US-Israeli war on Iran, warning that Brussels’ “servile” attitude toward US President Donald Trump risks fueling Euroskeptic sentiment.
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[2026-03-13 05:10 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Pilots reportedly adopting Russian tactics as statement in name of new Iranian supreme leader vows continued attacks on US bases
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[2026-03-13 05:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel claims its forces have carried out strikes against checkpoints operated by Iran’s Basij force in Tehran.
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[2026-03-13 05:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Pro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war, raising the risk of American defense contractors, power stations and water plants being swept into a wave of digital chaos that could expand if Tehran's allies join the fray.
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[2026-03-13 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Thursday that US military escorts for oil tankers through the crucial Strait of Hormuz “can’t happen now” but are “quite likely” to be in place by April — as Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to keep the waterway closed as a “tool to pressure the enemy” with higher energy prices.
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[2026-03-13 04:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Kuwait says its air defence systems are responding to incoming missile and drone attacks.
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[2026-03-13 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Oil prices have soared since the US and Israel launched their war against Iran, and President Donald Trump is now turning to America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a wider agreement from many of the world’s wealthiest countries to tap into emergency stockpiles.
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[2026-03-13 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel has dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at a military detention facility, Israeli media outlets have reported, closing a case that became one of the most divisive in the country’s recent history.
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[2026-03-13 04:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Work at QatarEnergy’s huge North Field Expansion liquefied natural gas project has slowed sharply as the war on Iran enters its third week.
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[2026-03-13 04:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The CEO of FireEye Kevin Mandia gives a tour of the cybersecurity company’s unused office space in Reston, Va., March 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren, file)
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[2026-03-13 04:20 UTC+10:00] [United Arab Emirates] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: UAE cybercrime law means sharing images or footage of war can bring jail, prison time and deportation
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[2026-03-13 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Army is offering a fat reward for the capture of two thieves who stole drones from a base — amid fears of a possible Iranian drone strike on U.S. soil.
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[2026-03-13 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives her the daily, morning news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, the day after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.” (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
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[2026-03-13 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The threat to Americans from international terrorist groups is “higher now than it’s been in decades” as the war against Iran nears the end of its second week, Sen. Ted Cruz has warned.
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[2026-03-13 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran says commercial vessels can still transit the Strait of Hormuz provided they coordinate their passage with Iranian naval forces.
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[2026-03-13 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump is considering waiving the Jones Act to speed up oil shipments as his administration works to bring down gas prices.
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[2026-03-13 04:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Two weeks into Donald Trump’s campaign against Iran, the conflict is beginning to take on a shape that few strategists publicly predicted but many privately feared.
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[2026-03-13 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: TotalEnergies says it has halted around 15 percent of its global oil and gas production as the war in the Middle East disrupts energy operations across the region.
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[2026-03-13 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For the past month, US President Donald Trump and his secretaries of state and of war have emphasised a vision of the United States as a white Christian European nation at war with the non-Christian, non-white world.
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[2026-03-13 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army has said it is dropping charges against five soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian detainee.
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[2026-03-13 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel renewed its strikes on Beirut on Thursday, as it threatened to expand operations and seize territory in Lebanon if Hezbollah did not stop its attacks.
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[2026-03-13 03:36 UTC+10:00] [Oil] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Vast release of emergency crude reserves fails to quell mounting fears about supply crunch, rattling markets
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[2026-03-13 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Pentagon cut ties with Anthropic because use of its artificial intelligence models would “pollute” the US military’s supply chain, a top War Department official claimed Thursday.
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[2026-03-13 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Sergey Poletaev, information analyst and publicist, co-founder and editor of the Vatfor project.
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[2026-03-13 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Sergey Poletaev, information analyst and publicist, co-founder and editor of the Vatfor project.
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[2026-03-13 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Italian defense firm Leonardo said it is "positioned on a path of strong growth" on Thursday, as European defense companies stand to gain business from the war in Iran, as they have been boosted by the war in Ukraine.
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[2026-03-13 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Russian government on Thursday ordered travel companies to provide refunds to Russians whose trips to the Middle East have been canceled due to the Iran war.
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[2026-03-13 03:04 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president says higher oil prices benefit the country as Iran war pushes petrol costs above $100 per barrel
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[2026-03-13 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-13 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The View sounded off on United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the U.S. Department of Defense in the wake of a fatal missile strike at an elementary school in Iran, and also took a moment to call out the Pentagon’s reported spending.
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[2026-03-13 02:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s prison service is grappling with a deepening staffing shortage, with tens of thousands of positions unfilled last year, highlighting mounting personnel problems across the country’s law enforcement agencies as the war in Ukraine stretches into its fifth year.
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[2026-03-13 02:48 UTC+10:00] [World Cup 2026] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Participation is in question amid ongoing war
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[2026-03-13 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spain's leftist government on Thursday said it would soon present a plan to contain the Middle East war's impact on Spanish electricity and fuel prices.
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[2026-03-13 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, leads a meeting with top security and defense officials at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside of Moscow, Aug. 12, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
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