Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-06 19:26 UTC+10:00] [Philippines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: South-east Asian country limits air conditioning and travel for public officials amid soaring fuel prices
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[2026-03-06 19:03 UTC+10:00] [Bahlil Lahadalia] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Higher oil prices would mean bigger fuel subsidies, piling on the pressure on a budget that is already under investor scrutiny
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[2026-03-06 19:01 UTC+10:00] [Action and adventure films] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Reacher’s Alan Ritchson takes on alien robots in an action thriller that benefits from some better-than-usual streaming special effects
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[2026-03-06 19:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The city was portrayed as an aspirational place to live, but now those who moved there are realising the precarity that comes with being an economic migrant
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[2026-03-06 18:59 UTC+10:00] [Media] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The ‘Red Alert’ series warned in 2023 that Australia needed to be ‘ready to fight in just three years’ – and Keating has again taken his fight to the newspaper group
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[2026-03-06 18:49 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: An Australian naval helicopter was forced to take evasive action after a close encounter with a Chinese military aircraft over the Yellow Sea, prompting the federal government to raise concerns with Beijing over what it described as a dangerous midair manoeuvre.
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[2026-03-06 18:38 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-06 18:24 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: They woke to their phones screaming. In the dead of night in a Dubai hotel, 14 Barker College students, en route to an international robotics competition in Turkey, found themselves in the crossfire of a rapidly escalating war.
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[2026-03-06 18:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon this week has risen to at least 123 people, the Lebanese Ministry of Health says, as a new wave of strikes pounded the country and Hezbollah warned Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5km (3.11 miles) of their northern border, in one of the fiercest fronts in the wider United States-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-03-06 18:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Lebanon saw heavy Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs late Thursday into Friday after an unprecedented evacuation order covering the whole Dahiyeh district. The Israeli army told residents to leave immediately and follow specific routes towards central Beirut or further north, warning them to save their lives. Within hours, traffic in the capital ground to a halt as thousands tried to leave the area.
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[2026-03-06 18:06 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean stocks pared earlier losses to close nearly unchanged Friday on a growing appetite for autos and defense firms amid the ongoing Middle East crisis. The local currency fell against the US dollar.
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[2026-03-06 17:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The first 100 hours of the US war on Iran are estimated to have cost about $3.7 billion, or roughly $891.4 million a day, according to the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
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[2026-03-06 17:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The Australian Defence Force says a Seahawk helicopter was forced to take evasive action after a Chinese aircraft "rolled towards" it. (Department of Defence)
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[2026-03-06 17:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The Australian Defence Force says a Seahawk helicopter was forced to take evasive action after a Chinese helicopter "rolled towards" it. (Supplied: Department of Defence)
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[2026-03-06 17:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has long been considered a contender to the post of the country’s next paramount ruler — even before an Israeli strike killed his father at the start of the war last week and despite the fact he’s has never been elected or appointed to a government position.
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[2026-03-06 17:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have announced they have retaken the city of Bara, the second-largest city in North Kordofan state in the west of the war-torn country, following a military operation they said resulted in expelling the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from the city and inflicting losses in lives and military equipment.
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[2026-03-06 17:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Two Iranian sailors, carrying green bags, who were rescued from IRIS Dena warship by Sri Lanka’s navy are escorted to a Judicial Medical Officer from the National Hospital, in Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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[2026-03-06 17:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A military academy belonging to Iran’s army was reportedly among the sites hit in strikes in central Tehran on Friday.
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[2026-03-06 17:35 UTC+10:00] [Business / The economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-06 17:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Intense air strikes have pounded Tehran and other Iranian cities on the seventh day of the US-Israeli war on the country, amid warnings from the United States Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth that the bombardment was “about to surge dramatically.”
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[2026-03-06 17:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The war between the United States, Israel and Iran has entered its seventh day, with attacks continuing across Iran and other countries in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-06 17:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California’s war on carbon could blow back at the pump — and wipe out the state’s oil business entirely, a top Chevron executive is warning.Andy Walz, who heads the company’s downstream, midstream and chemicals division, says a looming vote by the California Air Resources Board could pile billions in new costs onto in-state fuel producers — potentially driving refineries out of California for good.“If they add this burden … it’s not whether refineries will close, it’s when,” Walz told KCRA
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[2026-03-06 17:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: San Francisco International Airport welcomed its first non-stop Emirates flight from the Middle East since the start of the Iran war.
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[2026-03-06 17:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Families of young men duped into fighting for Russia on the frontline of its war in Ukraine took to the streets of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Thursday.
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[2026-03-06 17:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Seoul’s security agreement with Ottawa is also a ‘hedge’ against a transactional Washington, an analyst said
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[2026-03-06 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Shipping industry] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Seafarer tells of explosions in sky as thousands stuck on vessels after strait of Hormuz is effectively closed to shipping
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[2026-03-06 16:55 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-06 16:53 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
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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[2026-03-06 16:47 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: It’s probably not a great thing that, despite war breaking out between the United States and Iran, it almost feels familiar at this stage.
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[2026-03-06 16:46 UTC+10:00] [United States] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-06 16:44 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US claims temporary waiver won’t provide ‘significant financial benefit’ to Moscow; IDF strikes Lebanon after mass evacuation; Trump wants say in choosing Iran’s next leader. What we know on day seven
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[2026-03-06 16:43 UTC+10:00] [Philippines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Citizens and the government adopt energy-saving hacks to cut fuel consumption amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East
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[2026-03-06 16:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Intense Israeli airstrikes pounded the capital of Iran early Friday as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic’s fleet of warships. In eastern Tehran, witnesses described the Israeli airstrikes as particularly intense, shaking homes in the area. (AP video by Mohsen Ganji)
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[2026-03-06 16:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A relative shows photos of three siblings, Yaakov Biton and his two sisters, Avigail and Sarah, who were killed earlier this week when an Iranian missile struck their home in the city of Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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[2026-03-06 16:23 UTC+10:00] [Gaza] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: By barring US access to military bases, Spain’s prime minister has triggered threats of trade reprisals from Trump
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[2026-03-06 16:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency has reported that overnight attacks on Bahrain’s capital, Manama, targeted the Financial Harbour Towers commercial complex, the location of the Israeli embassy in the city.
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[2026-03-06 16:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference at U.S. Southern Command in Doral, Fla., Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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[2026-03-06 16:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A sign marks the entrance to a series of hardened tents at the Camp East Montana immigrant detention center in the desert at a U.S. Army base on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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[2026-03-06 16:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has said that Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, “will look like Khan Younis,” after the military instructed tens of thousands of residents to leave immediately or risk being attacked.
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[2026-03-06 16:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A series of hardened tents at the Camp East Montana immigrant detention center loom large in the desert at a U.S. Army base on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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[2026-03-06 16:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Residential areas in Tehran were struck in the latest wave of US and Israeli attacks early Friday, according to Iranian media reports.
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[2026-03-06 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As the Spanish PM decries the war in Iran, other politicians are unable – or unwilling – to speak against the US president
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[2026-03-06 15:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Satellite images released by Vantor and Planet Labs show extensive damage at several Iranian military and strategic sites following recent strikes the US and Israel.
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[2026-03-06 15:50 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-06 15:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: U.S. forces aren't holding back on the mission to sink the entire Iranian Navy. Today, an Iranian drone carrier, roughly the size of a WWII aircraft carrier, was struck and is now on fire. pic.twitter.com/WyA4fniZck
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[2026-03-06 15:44 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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[2026-03-06 15:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Intense Israeli airstrikes pounded the capitals of Iran and Lebanon early Friday as the US apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic’s fleet of warships.
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[2026-03-06 15:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: After slapping 25% “penalty” tariffs on India for buying Russian crude — revoked last month — the U.S. on Thursday issued a 30-day waiver to New Delhi for purchasing crude from Moscow as the Iran war risks energy supply shocks globally.
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[2026-03-06 15:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran is prepared to fight a prolonged war and plans to introduce advanced weapons not yet used in the conflict, a spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Friday.
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[2026-03-06 15:30 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As missiles streaked across the sky above the United Arab Emirates last weekend, the first images seen by the outside world largely came from hotel balconies and luxury apartments.
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