Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-04 09:29 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-04 09:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Trump administration's rationale for the US-Israeli war on Iran has been inconsistent at best, and incoherent at worst.
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[2026-03-04 09:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters as he arrives for an intelligence briefing with top lawmakers on Iran, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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[2026-03-04 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Spain has said the US should be mindful of international law and bilateral trade agreements with the European Union, after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut off all trade with the country for refusing to let the US military use its bases for missions linked to strikes on Iran.
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[2026-03-04 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: More ‘tigers’ are being culled than ever before in a campaign that could be becoming the new normal
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[2026-03-04 09:00 UTC+10:00] [ASIA PACIFIC] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Weaving Taiwan into existing frameworks to create a stronger U.S.-led regional defense architecture is crucial to deterring Chinese aggression, the democratic island’s top diplomat told The Japan Times, as Taipei looks to deepen security ties with Tokyo and neighboring countries.
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[2026-03-04 08:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A former “South Park” scribe has launched a sophomoric website calling for President Trump’s youngest son, Barron, to be conscripted into the US military and serve overseas.
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[2026-03-04 08:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Players and officials ran from the court due to the security alert. (X: ATP)
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[2026-03-04 08:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump said the “worst case” scenario in Iran would be if the nation’s next leader is “as bad” as the late Ayatollah Khamenei. He said it might be best if “someone from within” the Iranian regime took power, but most of those he had in mind” are dead.”
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[2026-03-04 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: We officially live in the age of missile defense.
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[2026-03-04 08:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Omani Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr al-Busaidi, who mediated the US-Iran talks before the war, has said that diplomatic options are still “available” to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-04 08:21 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war
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[2026-03-04 08:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A sell-off for stocks wrapped around the world and hit Wall Street, while oil prices climbed even higher on worries about the widening war with Iran.
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[2026-03-04 08:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said France was sending its aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, to the Mediterranean and working to build a coalition that would help secure maritime traffic imperilled by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-04 08:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An Iranian flag is placed among the ruins of a police station struck Monday during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-03-04 08:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted Tuesday that he was misunderstood one day prior when he said the US attacked Iran on Saturday because “we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action” that would “precipitate an attack against American forces.”
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[2026-03-04 08:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Issue: Mayor Mamdani, AOC and other Democrats’ criticism of the US-Israel strikes on Iran.
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[2026-03-04 08:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Frustrated and anxious travelers clamored Tuesday for ways out of the Middle East and beyond as the widening Iran war constrained commercial flights through the region for a fourth day, stranding tens of thousands of people.
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[2026-03-04 08:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Donald Trump says Iran's navy, air force and air detection systems have been "knocked out", as Israeli and US forces keep pounding targets across the country.
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[2026-03-04 08:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Military veterans and families of service members reacted to the news that the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran and what that means for American troops. (AP video/Kristin M. Hall and Allen G. Breed)
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[2026-03-04 07:58 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Mourners gathered for a funeral ceremony for children who lost their lives after a primary school in Iran was struck on Saturday. Source: Getty / Stringer
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[2026-03-04 07:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Thousands of mourners have filled the streets of the southern Iranian city of Minab for the funeral of 168 schoolgirls and staff killed in an attack on an elementary school on the opening day of the US-Israeli strikes.
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[2026-03-04 07:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ANKARA, March 3 (Reuters) – Turkey is engaging with all parties to find a way to end the war in Iran and return to negotiations, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, adding that Ankara was also in talks with Oman on the matter as the Gulf nation works for the same goal.
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[2026-03-04 07:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Financial Markets
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[2026-03-04 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — The prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines said Tuesday that his government did not give the U.S. authorization for a recent strike on an alleged drug boat in local waters that killed three people.
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[2026-03-04 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The 2026 primary season, in which voters in the United States determine which candidates will represent the major Republican and Democratic political parties in the November midterm elections, has begun in earnest with votes in Texas, North Carolina and Arkansas.
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[2026-03-04 07:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The United States said Tuesday that it had arranged charter flights to help Americans leave the Middle East after Washington joined Israel in attacking Iran.
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[2026-03-04 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United Kingdom is deploying a warship and helicopters to Cyprus, the British government has said, as global concern continues to mount over the fallout from deadly US-Israel attacks on Iran and retaliatory Iranian strikes across the region.
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[2026-03-04 07:13 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Will Australians spend over $100,000 on a Chinese car?
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[2026-03-04 07:09 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Lebanon is being pulled deeper into the war in Iran as Hezbollah trades blows with Israel. Source: Getty / Marwan Naamani
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[2026-03-04 07:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)
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[2026-03-04 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-03-04 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The US and Israel’s war on Iran has raged into a fourth day, with hundreds killed and thousands forced to flee as the conflict continues to spread across the Middle East.
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[2026-03-04 06:54 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The rationale keeps changing – from Iran planning a preemptive strike to lobbying by Israel
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[2026-03-04 06:51 UTC+10:00] [Dubai] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Contradicting images of parties and war flooded feeds after Iran targeted Gulf states in retaliation for US-Israeli attacks
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[2026-03-04 06:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Authoritarian politics and military aggression are a dangerous mix. As President Trump announced his war on Iran wearing a baseball cap in a video released in the early hours Saturday morning while he was at Mar-a-Lago, that lesson hung heavily over the proceedings. This was a decision made by one man with no legal basis, little public support and no coherent explanation of an endgame.
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[2026-03-04 06:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Restoring civilian life after nearly three decades of separatist conflict is neither immediate nor linear. In the Jaffna Peninsula, the return to normalcy hinges not only on physical reconstruction but on the restitution of land — the most tangible measure of post-war recovery.
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[2026-03-04 06:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: UCLA center Lauren Betts (51) gestures with her teammates as they walk off the court after an NCAA college basketball game against Southern California, Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/William Liang)
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[2026-03-04 06:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BAGHDAD, Iraq — An air strike hit a military base in southern Iraq housing the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah group on Tuesday, a source from the armed faction said.
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[2026-03-04 06:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said his administration’s war against Iran “successfully knocked out” the country’s air force and navy.
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[2026-03-04 06:38 UTC+10:00] [Foreign policy] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Despite rebukes from Donald Trump, many MPs back Keir Starmer’s stance so far, and say lessons from conflict in Iraq must not be forgotten
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[2026-03-04 06:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Iran players line up for the national anthem but don't sing it, ahead of their opening Women's Asian Cup group game. (Getty Images: Albert Perez)
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[2026-03-04 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lanka Navy seized 360kgs of smuggled Kendu leaves, during a search operation carried out in the sea area of Pitipana, Negombo on February 26.
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[2026-03-04 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-04 06:32 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Strikes on Iranian leadership are putting Tehran under unprecedented military and diplomatic pressure
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[2026-03-04 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-03-04 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka Navy Ships (SLNS) Sagara and Nandimithra sailed back into the Port of Colombo on February 27, having proudly flown the Sri Lankan flag at the International Fleet Review (IFR) and MILAN-26 multilateral naval exercise held in India. The vessels were welcomed with traditional naval honours upon their return.
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[2026-03-04 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Problems have arisen due to the war in the Middle East for the T20 and ODI series between the Sri Lanka and Afghanistan teams to be started on the March 13.
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[2026-03-04 06:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron with members of the army at the end of his speech at the Nuclear submarines Navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, Monday March 2, 2026. (Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-04 06:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke rises up behind Azadi, or freedom tower, following a U.S.-Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. ((Davoud Ghahrdar/ISNA via AP)
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