Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-05 09:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Senate Republicans voted to block a Democrat-led resolution on Wednesday that would rein in President Trump’s military authority against Iran — just days after the US and Israel struck Tehran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other high-ranking officials.
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[2026-03-05 09:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Washington, DC – The United States Senate has failed to pass a resolution seeking to rein in US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran.
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[2026-03-05 09:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A pair of students at the University of South Florida refused to condemn the Iranian regime during a bizarre streetside debate — and eagerly accepted a one-way ticket to the war-torn country for a “little trip around the Middle East.”
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[2026-03-05 09:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States government has announced it is collaborating with Ecuador to combat “terrorists” in the South American country.
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[2026-03-05 09:22 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Experts say backing Iran’s ethnic communities could ‘open up a hornet’s nest’ and increase risk of chaotic civil war
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[2026-03-05 09:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Tensions are rising between US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the US’s approach to the war on Iran, three former US officials and a senior regional official familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-05 09:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The US has sunk an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, and NATO air defences have shot down a missile fired towards Türkiye, as more countries are dragged into the international crisis fuelled by a widening war.
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[2026-03-05 08:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The market gyrations over the Iran conflict are starting to feel a bit like “Liberation Day” – and that could be a good thing.
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[2026-03-05 08:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The city of Tehran has been subjected to heavy aerial bombardment by US and Israeli forces, with the strikes targeting multiple government and public sites across the Iranian capital, according to RT’s Tehran bureau chief, Hami Hamedi.
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[2026-03-05 08:13 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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[2026-03-05 08:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spain on Wednesday doubled down on its opposition to Washington's use of its bases against Iran, after the White House Press Secretary said Madrid had "agreed to cooperate with the US military".
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[2026-03-05 08:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Some Anthropic investors are growing frustrated with CEO Dario Amodei’s combative stance toward the Trump administration — even as as defense contractor Lockheed Martin said it will comply with the government’s ban on the AI startup, according to reports.
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[2026-03-05 07:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday. In addition to striking Tehran, Israel hit the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, while Iran struck American and Israeli targets in Bahrain and Kuwait.
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[2026-03-05 07:55 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-05 07:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-05 07:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Graham Arnold has been unable to leave the United Arab Emirates. (Getty Images/FIDA: Mohamed Farag, File photo)
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[2026-03-05 07:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The United States has gone to war with Iran. We haven’t declared war, mind you. In the words of Conrad Brean: “We’re not declaring war, we’re going to war. We haven’t declared war since the Second World War. We’re going to war.”
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[2026-03-05 07:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: For more than two decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been circling a single horizon.
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[2026-03-05 07:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Last week, the world was reminded that history often moves in two directions at once. The US and Israel carried out military strikes against Iran, followed by Iranian retaliation. At nearly the same time, President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea met President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil to deepen bilateral cooperation.
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[2026-03-05 07:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel has issued a forced evacuation order to all residents of southern Lebanon, worsening a wave of mass displacement as the Israeli military continues to launch deadly attacks across the country.
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[2026-03-05 07:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan PDKI stands at a checkpoint leading to their base in Koya district of Irbil, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Rashid Yahya)
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[2026-03-05 07:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The editor-in-chief of Independent Arabia suggested in a television interview on Tuesday that not all attacks on the Gulf states may be coming from Iran, and that the US and Israel could lure them into the war, only to later abandon them.
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[2026-03-05 07:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Pedro Sanchez has doubled down on his criticism of the US and Israel's military action against Iran despite pressure from Donald Trump. (AP: Michael Probst)
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[2026-03-05 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian officials have accused Israel of carrying out some of the drone strikes on energy and civilian sites in the Arabian Gulf, calling the attacks a calculated bid to spark regional fury and pull Arab states into the war on Tehran.
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[2026-03-05 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: With Iran’s supreme leader killed and retaliation unfolding, the US and Israel appear to be testing the durability of Iran. But Iran’s political system was designed to survive leadership loss and military pressure. What does Washington misunderstand about Tehran’s structure, and how far is Iran prepared to go? American President Trump framed the offensive as necessary to eliminate imminent threats from Iran and urged Iranians to rise up against their government.
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[2026-03-05 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Admitted to Karapitiya Hospital Ship sunk outside SL maritime area Navy rescue after distress call off Galle
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[2026-03-05 06:55 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Hospital authorities in the Sri Lankan port city of Galle said 87 bodies were brought in by military rescuers. Source: AAP / Antonio Lacerda/EPA
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[2026-03-05 06:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Spain has denied the White House’s claim that Madrid is now cooperating militarily with Washington amid the war with Iran, despite President Donald Trump’s threat to use trade to punish the Spanish authorities for their stance.
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[2026-03-05 06:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Washington, DC – The United States Senate is expected to hold an initial vote on a resolution to rein in US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, with top Democrat Chuck Schumer saying he fears “now more than ever” that the administration is planning to deploy boots on the ground.
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[2026-03-05 06:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A discussion was held yesterday (04) at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to examine the potential impact of the current war situation in the Middle East on Sri Lanka’s economy and to identify the urgent measures required to manage it effectively.
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[2026-03-05 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: PHOENIX (AP) — A small plane carrying a student pilot and flight instructor struck two homes in north Phoenix on Wednesday before landing nose-down in a backyard, injuring them and a man who was in one of the homes, authorities said.
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A ceremony commemorating Iran’s late leader Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran has been postponed, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, days after he was assassinated along with family members in joint air strikes by Israel and the United States.
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[2026-03-05 06:29 UTC+10:00] [Gavin Newsom] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: California governor, promoting his memoir in LA, was asked if US should rethink military partnership with Israel
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[2026-03-05 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Despite reports of an erosion of trust between Washington and its Gulf partners as they come under a barrage of Iranian rockets, the White House said on Wednesday that those countries have praised the US president for starting the war and targeting "the rogue Iranian terrorist regime".
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[2026-03-05 06:20 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-05 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US and Israeli forces took out the Iranian official behind a plot to assassinate President Trump in the final days of the 2024 election campaign, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-03-05 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The footage is spectacular.
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[2026-03-05 06:00 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump
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[2026-03-05 05:56 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Here’s what we know about the four US service members who have been identified
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[2026-03-05 05:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Children hold a sign protesting war against Iran during an antiwar demonstration at Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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[2026-03-05 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US will begin using larger reserves of less-sophisticated weapons after assessing that Iranian air defences are degraded, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 05:38 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-05 05:27 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: The United States Navy has torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean – the first time an enemy vessel has been sunk by an American torpedo since World War II – as Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted that the US was “just getting started” in its military campaign.
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[2026-03-05 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto shake hands during their meeting at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-05 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The day after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, and the subsequent Iranian counterattack against US bases in the Gulf, Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that the UK government would intervene in the conflict in two ways.
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[2026-03-05 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-05 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the US Senate were set to begin voting Wednesday on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorized by Congress.
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[2026-03-05 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: News Corp. has struck a multiyear AI content licensing deal with Meta that will pay The Post’s parent company up to $50 million a year.
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[2026-03-05 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said he was surprised at markets’ response to the escalating Iran war, calling the dip in stocks “more benign” than he expected as the conflict entered its fifth day.
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