Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-07 04:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Since the launch of the US-Israeli onslaught on Iran, the country’s schools, hospitals and even playgrounds have come under attack.
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[2026-03-07 04:22 UTC+10:00] [Marco Rubio] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The president has said it is ‘just a matter of time’ before the US turns to Cuba after finishing its war in Iran
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[2026-03-07 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: KABUL, March 6 — Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border on Friday as the UN said their week-old conflict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.
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[2026-03-07 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Explosions were heard across the capital and large plumes of smoke rose over the area known as Dahiyeh, where Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. Shortly before the strikes on Thursday, the Israeli army ordered residents across the southern suburbs to evacuate immediately. The warning covered one of the most densely populated parts of the capital and triggered a rapid exodus toward central Beirut, the coast and nearby mountains.
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[2026-03-07 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: President Donald Trump has criticised UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer after he refused to let the US launch strikes on Iran from British military bases.
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[2026-03-07 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: BEIRUT/WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM — Israel pounded Beirut on Friday after ordering an unprecedented evacuation of the entire southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a major expansion of the war against Iran it began a week ago alongside the United States.
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[2026-03-07 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: In the Iranian capital, worshippers gathered near mosques before joining rallies that mixed religious observance with political messages. Some participants said they came to show support for the Islamic Republic during a week of heavy fighting. Airstrikes have repeatedly hit sites in Tehran, while Iranian officials say the country has launched ballistic missiles toward Israel in response.
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[2026-03-07 03:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A group of Russian pranksters, one dressed as Adolf Hitler, tricked Iranian monarchist leader Reza Pahlavi into believing Germany was preparing to bomb Iran.
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[2026-03-07 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The world's tallest building on fire, missiles raining down on central Tel Aviv, and an elderly slain leader being pulled from the rubble of the Iranian capital.
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[2026-03-07 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel is exporting its “Gaza playbook” to Lebanon, a nonprofit group has warned, as the Israeli military continues to attack the country after ordering the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.
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[2026-03-07 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rebaz Sherifi, military commander at the Kurdistan Freedom Party PAK, speaks during an interview in Irbil, Iraq, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Rashid Yahya)
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[2026-03-07 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The world's tallest building on fire, missiles raining down on central Tel Aviv, and an elderly slain leader being pulled from the rubble of the Iranian capital.
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[2026-03-07 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran could sustain its response to the US and Israel for weeks if it reduces the scale of its missile barrages, according to Arman Mahmoudian, a research fellow at the University of South Florida’s Global and National Security Institute.
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[2026-03-07 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The much-anticipated flag football event involving Tom Brady and other NFL legends and superstars is moving from Saudi Arabia to California after war broke out in the Middle East over the weekend.
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[2026-03-07 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia's defence ministry has said it intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile near the central Al-Kharj area.
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[2026-03-07 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE week-old United States-Israel war with Iran in the Middle East has disrupted the global supply chain of crude oil coming from that region. The Strait of Hormuz — the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean — was effectively closed to navigation due to Iran’s drone attacks.
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[2026-03-07 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE unfolding conflict in the Gulf between Iran and the United States-Israel axis has exposed a strategic reality that many governments hosting American military assets and bases have long tried to downplay: when a major power wages war, the territories from which it projects force become part of the battlefield.
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[2026-03-07 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AS Pope Leo XIV guides his flock to relive the grace-filled season of Lent, his first as the leader of the 1.3-billion-strong Catholic Church, “a world that is ablaze” that rues in his Ash Wednesday message, is increasingly ripping apart the prospects for world peace. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now in its fourth year and is hardly showing any sign of resolution.
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[2026-03-07 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BOSTON, Massachusetts — Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s former dictator, won the big prize in the country’s national lottery in 2000. And he won for a simple reason: because he could. Once you destroy institutions constraining your power, as Mugabe did during his 37-year reign, you can rule for personal enrichment, personal aggrandizement or simply personal entertainment.
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[2026-03-07 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the United States launched the 1991 Gulf War, then-president George H.W. Bush boasted of building a broad coalition unseen in decades. When his son attacked Iraq in 2003, he faced wide criticism, but secured several steadfast US allies.
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[2026-03-07 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-07 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Taba, a small resort town on Egypt’s border with Israel, has become a transit hub for Israelis and foreign nationals seeking to leave the country or return home after Israel closed its airspace amid its ongoing war on Iran.
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[2026-03-07 02:54 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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[2026-03-07 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's military said a projectile fired at its territory on Friday wounded eight soldiers near the Lebanese border.
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[2026-03-07 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has banned Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, citing the “security situation” amid the war with Iran, while Jewish Purim celebrations have been allowed to take place elsewhere in the city.
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[2026-03-07 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The first flight from Dubai to San Francisco since the outbreak of the Iran war arrived at SFO, reuniting families and bringing home travelers stranded in the UAE. At the same time, the first departing flight from San Francisco to Dubai prepared for takeoff, with most passengers confident about returning home.
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[2026-03-07 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A posse of US stealth bombers is expected to reach UK military bases soon as President Trump warned Iran that “the big one” could be imminent.
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[2026-03-07 02:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Uncertainty over US and Israeli war aims is slowing the Iranian Kurdish opposition groups urged by President Donald Trump to rise up against the Islamic Republic, Kurdish analysts have told Al Jazeera.
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[2026-03-07 02:16 UTC+10:00] [Books] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Author of more than 30 novels, including Fado Alexandrino and The Inquisitors’ Manual, was widely seen as one of the most important voices in modern Portuguese literature
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[2026-03-07 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In a survery conducted in early March, 82 percent of the Israeli public supported the war on Iran, including 93 percent Jewish respondents and a minority of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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[2026-03-07 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has banned Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, citing the “security situation” amid the war with Iran, while Jewish Purim celebrations have been allowed to take place elsewhere in the city.
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[2026-03-07 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: It appears Team Samurai’s defense of their World Baseball Classic title is off to a good start.
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[2026-03-07 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to help it strike American military forces in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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[2026-03-07 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Donald Trump has stressed that any deal with Iran must result in the country’s “unconditional surrender”, setting maximalist war objectives for the United States.
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[2026-03-07 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Canada signed a strategic agreement Friday aimed at strengthening cooperation in defense, economic and energy security as military strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel fueled concern about international oil supplies.
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[2026-03-07 01:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday confirmed the continued pre-trial detention of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, rejecting defense arguments that his health condition justified his immediate release.
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[2026-03-07 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — US President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to rule out talks with Iran absent its “unconditional surrender.” Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut and Tehran as Iran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries on the seventh day of the war.
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[2026-03-07 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Energy Secretary Chris Wright predicted Friday morning that gas prices will come down in a matter of “weeks, not months” following a surge due to the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-07 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Taba, a small resort town on Egypt’s border with Israel, has become a transit hub for Israelis and foreign nationals seeking to leave the country or return home after Israel closed its airspace amid its ongoing war on Iran.
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[2026-03-07 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: DETROIT — Toyota Motor, Hyundai Motor and Chinese automakers such as Chery face the most potential impact of non-domestic automakers from the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, according to an analysis by Bernstein.
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[2026-03-07 01:31 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US says its firepower will ‘surge dramatically’ and IDF warns of ‘surprises ahead’, as Iran launches retaliatory strikes
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[2026-03-07 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Clashes across Sudan's southern Kordofan region killed at least 51 people between Wednesday and Thursday, medical sources told AFP, as the army said it recaptured the city of Bara, on the road to Khartoum.
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[2026-03-07 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Qatar’s Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi has said exports from the Gulf region could come to a halt “within weeks” if the war on Iran continues to escalate, throwing global energy markets into turmoil.
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[2026-03-07 01:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday reiterated criticism of US-Israeli attacks on Iran, saying that they are an "extraordinary mistake" and "not in accordance with international law".
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[2026-03-07 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army said it attacked a senior Iranian commander in Tehran.
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[2026-03-07 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Getting a bombshell makeover in the Middle East left this siren shellshocked.
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[2026-03-07 01:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said only Iran's "unconditional surrender" would stop his assault on the country.
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[2026-03-07 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army has targeted the al-Janah area, south of Beirut, nearby the Iranian embassy, state-owned National News Agency (NNA) reported.
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[2026-03-07 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In a battered house, patched together after being damaged by Israeli bombing during the last war on Gaza, Tasneem stood by candlelight, cooking beans for her children's Ramadan dinner.
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[2026-03-07 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD — Pakistani and Afghan forces launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes Friday, and each side claimed to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors — a conflict that Islamabad has declared to be an “open war.”
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