Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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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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[2026-03-04 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Sudan’s army-aligned government has accused Ethiopia of involvement in recent drone strikes, saying attacks launched “from inside Ethiopian territory” targeted sites in Sudan in February and March.
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[2026-03-04 02:49 UTC+10:00] [South Sudan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At least 169 killed in raid near Sudan border as clashes between government and opposition forces intensify
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[2026-03-04 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli and US strikes hit the building of a body tasked with electing Iran's new supreme leader in the city of Qom, local media reported on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-04 02:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah’s surprise strike on Israel on Monday did more than reignite a front that had largely lain dormant since the 2024 war. It has set off a sweeping Israeli retaliation, shaken Lebanese public opinion, and thrust the Lebanese state into one of its most consequential confrontations with the group in years.
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[2026-03-04 02:44 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Stockpiles of the most advanced US-made weapons are limited – while few know how large Iran’s arsenal is
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[2026-03-04 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Keir Starmer has never had a bad word to say in public about Donald Trump.
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[2026-03-04 02:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the South Korea–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-03-04 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: US and Israeli strikes on Iran could encourage the Islamic Republic and its Arab neighbours to acquire nuclear weapons, Russia’s Foreign Minister warned on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-04 02:14 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fear and grief mix in the small town of Beit Shemesh, where missile struck ageing bomb shelter
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[2026-03-04 02:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the South Korea–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-03-04 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Palestine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing is unlikely to abandon ‘balanced diplomacy’ in the region despite killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, analysts say
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[2026-03-04 01:57 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-03-04 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Quezon City 4th District Rep. Bong Suntay drew the ire of the House of Representatives after his inappropriate remarks on actress Anne Curtis during the proceedings on the pending impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte on March 3, 2026.
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[2026-03-04 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Head of the Federal Treasury Roman Artyukhin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-04 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: After more than three decades as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was assassinated in US and Israeli air strikes on Saturday morning.
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[2026-03-04 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli and US strikes on Tuesday struck the building of the assembly tasked with electing Iran's new supreme leader, according to Iranian media.
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[2026-03-04 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Soldiers stand watch against the national flag on Tiananmen Square during a press conference ahead of the opening of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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[2026-03-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is choking off China’s imports of methanol – a vital input for the country’s industrial sector
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[2026-03-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: When the United States and Israel began bombing Iran over the weekend they set in motion a war that has engulfed the region.
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[2026-03-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Energy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Experts warn of similarities with 2022, when electricity prices went up by more than 40% due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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[2026-03-04 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Television] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: With a world-class cast that will have you constantly saying ‘hey, it’s that guy!’, this horror drama about a doomed Royal Navy expedition is a grand treatise on colonial folly
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[2026-03-04 00:57 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Twenty-three South Koreans have been evacuated from Iran by land amid the escalating conflict following U.S. and Israeli military strikes, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
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[2026-03-04 00:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Signs are growing that the outbreak of military hostilities in the Middle East could put a pause on U.S.-brokered talks to end the war in Ukraine, as the Kremlin said Tuesday it lacks “clarity” on when and where the next round of trilateral negotiations will take place.
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[2026-03-04 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer look at each other as they shake hands during a press conference at Chequers near Aylesbury, England, Thursday Sept. 18, 2025. Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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[2026-03-04 00:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Moscow for decades has been Iran’s main international backer, shielding it from United Nations resolutions while trying to soften Western sanctions and selling weaponry worth billions of dollars to Tehran.
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[2026-03-04 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Good day. Here are the stories of The Manila Times for Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
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[2026-03-04 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that the war with Iran could last longer than initially projected, saying Washington has the capability to continue military operations well beyond the four-to-five-week timeframe first outlined.
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[2026-03-04 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A day before Texas voters choose their nominees in a key U.S. Senate race, they’re reacting to the U.S. military attacks on Iran (AP Video: Kendria LaFleur and Juan Lozano)
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[2026-03-04 00:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkey's pro-Kurdish party on Sunday criticised the US-Israeli war on Iran, saying it opposed “external designs” on the country.
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[2026-03-04 00:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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[2026-03-04 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: On Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, dozens of girls gathered at the “Shajareh Tayyebeh” (The Good Tree) school in the city of Minab in southern Iran when Israel and the United States began initial strikes on the country.
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[2026-03-04 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD — Afghan forces attacked Pakistani military positions along the border early on Tuesday, triggering intense clashes that left 67 Afghan troops and one Pakistani soldier dead, officials in Islamabad said as cross-border fighting between the two countries entered its fifth day.
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[2026-03-04 00:11 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: China calls it unacceptable to ‘kill leader of sovereign state’, while South Africa questions ‘pre-emptive’ justification
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[2026-03-04 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump’s second term in office has been defined by the abduction of Venezuela’s left-wing President Nicolas Maduro, joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, among hundreds, and new threats against other leaders from Latin America to even Europe.
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[2026-03-04 00:05 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenKfar Tibnit, Lebanon Smoke rises from an Israeli bombardment on the southern Lebanese area of Kfar Tibnit. Israel has ordered the military to take control of more positions in Lebanon, where the army pulled back some of its forces after Hezbollah attacked Israeli bases in support of its backer, IranPhotograph: Rabih Daher/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenBeirut, Lebanon Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
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[2026-03-04 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Washington, DC – As the US and Israeli militaries expand their strikes on Iran, the administration of US President Donald Trump has alternated its justification for the war between preventing immediate attacks and countering the long-term existential threat of a nuclear Tehran.
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[2026-03-03 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The British public opposes allowing the US to use British airbases for strikes on Iranian missile sites, a new poll has revealed.
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[2026-03-03 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: On Saturday morning, the departure board at Dubai’s main airport began to stack up with delays. Over the water, pale arcs rose, flared and vanished - interceptors, officials later said - leaving chalk traces in a sky turning white.
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[2026-03-03 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Qatar says Iran did not notify it of incoming missile attacks as Tehran conducts a retaliatory campaign across the Gulf sparked by the United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran.
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[2026-03-03 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A display in the arrivals terminal of the Henri Coanda International Airport shows cancelled flights originating in Middle East countries, in Otopeni, Romania, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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[2026-03-03 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli air strike in Tehran targeted a senior commander of Iran’s Quds Force, according to Israeli Army Radio.
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[2026-03-03 23:45 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site
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[2026-03-03 23:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Iranian-Kurdish women's group have expressed concerns about a number of their members who are currently political prisoners in Iran, who have been cut off by the US-Israeli attack on the country. In response to a question from MEE about Verisheh Moradi - who was imprisoned for "armed rebellion" over her support of the Woman, Life, Freedom demonstrations that broke out in 2022 - the Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) said their contact with political prisoners had become "extremely
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[2026-03-03 23:30 UTC+10:00] [Iraq] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Unlike at least one war game simulation rehearsed by the US military, Trump’s attack won’t lead to a reset, at least not on American terms
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[2026-03-03 23:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Mohsen and Firouzeh have been trying to have a child for years and recently turned to IVF, using a clinic at Tehran’s Ghandi hospital.
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[2026-03-03 23:01 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.
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[2026-03-03 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing is still dependent on fossil fuels but Washington’s recent interventions may prompt officials to fast-track shift, analysts say
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[2026-03-03 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The president needs a quick win to avoid a quagmire – but he needs a long war to justify potential emergency powers
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