Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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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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[2026-03-04 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump enjoys being seen as unpredictable. But when it comes to the military campaign against Iran, his shifting messaging on the length and aims of the conflict obscures the failure to achieve his apparent goal: a quick conclusion that he can declare a victory.
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[2026-03-04 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A banner depicting Donald Trump hangs outside a government building in Washington DC on the day the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. (Reuters: Kylie Cooper)
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[2026-03-04 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A group of men inspects the ruins of a police station struck Monday amid the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-03-04 05:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Social media platform X announced Tuesday it would suspend creators from its revenue sharing program for 90 days if they post AI-generated videos of armed conflicts without disclosing they were artificially made, the company said.
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[2026-03-04 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Israel Defense Forces has “severed the head of the Iranian octopus” and is now working to “crush and cut off its tentacles,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-04 05:50 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-04 05:48 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Numerous US polls in the past few months point to voters seeking Donald Trump to focus on issues like the economy and the cost of living. Credit: Leon Wang/AAP
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[2026-03-04 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US commanders from every arm of the military have told their units that the war on Iran is “anointed by Jesus” and would bring about his return to Earth as part of the Armageddon, resulting in scores of complaints from serving members of the military.
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[2026-03-04 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US and Israeli strikes against Iran, which have sparked a regional war, likely violate the UN Charter’s prohibition on aggression and lack any valid legal justification, experts say.
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[2026-03-04 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un caza se prepara para aterrizar en la base aérea RAF Akrotiri, Reino Unido, tras ser alcanzado por un ataque con dron cerca de Limassol, Chipre, lunes 2 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Petros Karadjias)
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[2026-03-04 05:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israelis and some in the Iranian diaspora celebrated when the first blow in the third Gulf war was struck early on Saturday morning, as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other military and political leaders were wiped out.
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[2026-03-04 05:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Blakeman called Gov. Kathy Hochul “un-American” Tuesday for making contradictory statements about the US strikes against Iran.
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[2026-03-04 05:19 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A selloff for stocks is slamming into Wall Street after wrapping around the world, as oil prices leap even higher with worries that the widening war with Iran may do more sustained damage to the economy than feared.
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[2026-03-04 05:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Multiple commanders across all branches of the US military have offered a fundamentalist Christian explanation for the attack on Iran, describing President Donald Trump as the harbinger of the Second Coming and the conflict itself as a “signal fire” for Armageddon, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has reported.
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[2026-03-04 05:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US stock market plunged, bonds sold off, and energy prices continued to soar on Tuesday, in a sign that markets are increasingly alarmed by the escalating war on Iran after an earlier muted reaction.
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[2026-03-04 05:10 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: March 4, 2026 — 5:10am
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[2026-03-04 05:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US will suspend all trade with Spain over Madrid’s decision to deny the US permission to use its joint military bases to attack Iran, President Donald Trump has announced. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has condemned Trump’s “unjustified and dangerous” intervention against Iran. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said that “we’re going to cut off all trade with Spain,” and that he doesn’t “want to have anything to do with” the Mediterranean nation.
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[2026-03-04 05:08 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing says US-Israeli strikes were in bad faith and calls for an immediate halt, a return to talks and opposition to unilateral action
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[2026-03-04 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
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[2026-03-04 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday praised the joint U.S.-Israeli war effort against the Islamic Republic, but added that NATO itself will not get involved.
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[2026-03-04 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Workers stand around the ARA San Juan submarine during a ceremony celebrating the first stage of major repairs at the Argentine Industrial Naval Complex (CINAR) in Buenos Aires, Sept. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Mario de Fina, File)
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[2026-03-04 04:44 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ben Jennings on Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and the war in Iran – cartoon
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[2026-03-04 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: As gas prices in the U.S. are expected to rise, California Governor Gavin Newsom came under fire Monday from the U.S. Oil and Gas Association for his comments blaming President Donald Trump and the war in Iran as triggers for the increase.
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[2026-03-04 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The sun sets behind a plume of smoke rising after a U.S.–Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-03-04 04:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Amazon said drone strikes significantly damaged two of its data centers and a facility in the Middle East amid the conflict in Iran, taking some of the tech giant’s services in the region offline.
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[2026-03-04 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iraqi Shiites hold pictures of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Tehran, during a symbolic funeral, in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
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[2026-03-04 04:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The way Brics responds to the US and Israel's war on Iran, a permanent member, will have repercussions for how the group is perceived and understood - not only by its own members, but the whole world going forward, analysts have told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-04 04:07 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Bombarded by the US and Israel, Iranians worry about how to survive, and what comes next
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[2026-03-04 04:05 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: With the US and Israel apparently without a postwar plan for the country, we explore four possible scenarios
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[2026-03-04 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech next to the submarine ‘Le Temeraire’ (The Temerarious) 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 03:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The FBI has joined the search for a retired US Air Force general — who once led a site long rumored to be tied to UFO research — after he was reported missing in New Mexico.
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[2026-03-04 03:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: When Benjamin Netanyahu launched his genocidal assault on Gaza in autumn 2023, Britain’s two main political parties formed a cross-party cartel in support of the bloodstained Israeli prime minister.
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[2026-03-04 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Filipina caregiver Charlot David made the run back and forth to the bomb shelter several times before deciding it was better to simply stay there. The 44-year-old mother of four, who has lived through "several wars" since moving to Israel in 2008, knew exactly what to do when the ear-splitting alert on her mobile phone first woke her on Saturday.
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[2026-03-04 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ADDS CAUSE OF BLACK SMOKE IN THE BACKGROUND.- A plume of smoke caused by an Iranian strike is seen in the background an an Emirates plane is parked at the Dubai International Airport after its closure in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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[2026-03-04 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: An ATP Challenger tennis tournament in the United Arab Emirates was interrupted after a “security alert” linked to Iranian strikes on targets in the Gulf region, launched in response to attacks by the United States and Israel.
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[2026-03-04 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AN escalation of the conflict in the Middle East could push Philippine inflation toward 4 percent in the coming months, an analyst said.
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[2026-03-04 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: March 4, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-03-04 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Widespread abuse and hazing among soldiers are undermining Germany’s armed forces as the Bundeswehr struggles to meet personnel targets and attract recruits, a new report has suggested.
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[2026-03-04 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Widespread abuse and hazing among soldiers are undermining Germany’s armed forces as the Bundeswehr struggles to meet personnel targets and attract recruits, a new report has suggested.
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[2026-03-04 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Foreign Minister Penny Wong says six Australian crisis consular teams are being deployed to the Middle East to help stranded travellers.
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[2026-03-04 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A wildly popular fitness influencer has been forced to admit lying about surviving a bomb blast to the face while serving in the military.
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[2026-03-04 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ON Monday, Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno issued an executive order directing the city government to immediately reduce its fuel use by 50 percent, in anticipation of higher fuel prices and constricted supplies due to the ongoing war by the United States and Israel against Iran. It was an eminently sensible decision on the part of Mayor Moreno, and one that should immediately be duplicated at every level of government across the Philippines.
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[2026-03-04 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIJING — China’s top political advisory body voted to remove three generals, state media said, a week after nine military officials were ousted from its legislature.
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[2026-03-04 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PURE legalese would place America as acting in an unabashed, unimpeded impunity. In the space of just a month, it has caused the downfall of two heads of state. One, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, whom it kidnapped together with wife Cilia in early January; and two, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, whom it killed in missile attacks at the end of February.
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[2026-03-04 03:00 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-04 02:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Global energy markets have come under pressure as the Middle East conflict escalates, with fears mounting over potential disruptions to oil and gas supplies. US and Israeli strikes on Iran have prompted Tehran to retaliate with missile and drone attacks on Israel and US bases across the region. Iran has also targeted oil facilities in neighboring countries, while shipping through the Strait of Hormuz – the narrow gateway at the mouth of the Gulf — has largely ground to a
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