Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-01 09:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Airlines serving the Middle East cancelled and diverted flights on Saturday after the US and Israel launched deadly strikes against on Iran, including its capital Tehran.
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[2026-03-01 09:29 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.
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[2026-03-01 09:26 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-01 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump claimed late on Saturday that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli strikes, an announcement that was earlier denied by Iran's foreign minister, state media and his personal office.
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[2026-03-01 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Despite a second-term pledge to end US involvement in costly and destructive foreign wars, President Donald Trump has initiated a full-scale offensive to topple the Iranian government just more than a year after returning to office.
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[2026-03-01 09:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US president Donald Trump has announced the killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei after joint US-Israeli air strikes hit his compound on Saturday.
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[2026-03-01 09:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The US president gave mixed signals about whether the attack was coming, but his weekend Mar-a-Lago trip may have been the big giveaway
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[2026-03-01 09:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Trump said on social media that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead, saying his passing is “the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.” The death occurred after a joint US and Israeli aerial bombardment that targeted Iranian military and governmental sites.
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[2026-03-01 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: At least 85 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, the Iranian judiciary said. The attack on Saturday morning hit Shajareh Tayyebeh schoolin the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province, as the United States and Israel began launching strikes on targets across Iran.
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[2026-03-01 08:57 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Air strikes halt bitter political feuding ahead of elections as prominent Israelis call for a broad open-ended war
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[2026-03-01 08:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The first thing that strikes me is the darkness. I can't see any stars - only clouds.
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[2026-03-01 08:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran is entitled to defend itself from Israeli and US attacks, the spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stressed.
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[2026-03-01 08:47 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-01 08:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: At least 21 people were injured when an Iranian ballistic missile struck Tel Aviv, according to the Times of Israel.
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[2026-03-01 08:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Investigators examine bank notes burned by authorities to prevent people from approaching the scene of a cargo plane that crashed on a highway on Friday evening carrying money, in El Alto, Bolivia, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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[2026-03-01 08:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GENEVA, Switzerland — The United Nations' rights chief deplored Saturday's strikes in the Middle East and urged all parties to return to negotiations, saying attacks would only result in "death, destruction and human misery".
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[2026-03-01 08:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the US-Israeli air strikes on Iran and called for an immediate return to negotiations, hours before an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
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[2026-03-01 08:32 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Coordinated daylight assault on Tehran sparked Iranian retaliation and plunged the region into wider conflict
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[2026-03-01 08:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stands outside the Pentagon during a welcome ceremony for the Japanese defense minister at the Pentagon in Washington, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
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[2026-03-01 08:28 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Penny Wong due to speak from Adelaide after government declared its support for US action. Follow the latest updates live
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[2026-03-01 08:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ambassador Danny Danon told reporters ahead of an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that Iran is responsible for escalating actions by its proxies and its nuclear and missile programs, and “now Israel and the U.S. act to prevent an irreversible and immediate threat.”
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[2026-03-01 08:21 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-01 08:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said he believes reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in air strikes are accurate, though he stopped short of confirming the claim outright.
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[2026-03-01 08:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Loud explosions have been heard in central Israel following what Israeli media describe as a fresh missile barrage from Iran.
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[2026-03-01 08:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatar’s Interior Ministry says falling missile fragments injured eight people, one of them seriously following Iranian strikes on the country.
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[2026-03-01 08:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Newspapers hang on display for sale in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, a day after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.” (AP Photo/Jon Orbach)
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[2026-03-01 07:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian state-linked media have pushed back against claims that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli air strikes.
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[2026-03-01 07:33 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
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[2026-03-01 07:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Mark Butler scored 21 points as Lafayette beat Army 83-77 in a regular-season finale on Saturday.
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[2026-03-01 07:23 UTC+10:00] [Airspace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: As European leaders raced to respond to the rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East on Saturday after the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran, the crisis exposed fault lines inside Europe — and across the Atlantic.
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[2026-03-01 07:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-01 07:11 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: The Australian government has issued a slew of travel advisory updates for a number of Middle East countries overnight in the wake of the US-Israel operation in Iran and retaliatory strikes on US military bases.The ongoing risk of further reprisal attacks prompted a flood of warnings from the government's Smartraveller platform, which warned against travel to key regions in the Middle East.The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade advises Australians not to travel to: Qatar, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, the United
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[2026-03-01 07:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has defended the US strikes on Iran, saying Israel acted to neutralise what he claimed was as an existential threat.
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[2026-03-01 07:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Iran strikes are attempt to hijack the global narrative and drown out Epstein and tariffs with the thunder of cruise missiles
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[2026-03-01 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: TL;DR, while we find the actions of the Trump administration disappointing - based on their anti-interventionist campaign promises vs. the interventionist reality - there can be little doubt (given the speed and breadth of action) that kneejerk protests emerging within minutes of an event are clearly manufactured, aimed at leftist youth, and risk alienating antiwar conservatives.
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[2026-03-01 06:59 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Poland’s leadership said Saturday it had prior awareness of the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, in contrast to France, which said it was neither informed of nor involved in the operation.
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[2026-03-01 06:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ABU DHABI — Explosions rocked cities across the Gulf Saturday, killing a civilian in Abu Dhabi, while smoke and flames rose from Dubai landmark The Palm as Iran launched waves of attacks in retaliation for US and Israeli strikes.
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[2026-03-01 06:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: As the United States and Israel launch a military operation against Iran on February 28, 2026, global attention turns to the Middle East, where the stakes could not be higher. Analysts and experts from Russia are weighing in, offering a wide range of perspectives on the strategic calculations, potential consequences, and risks of escalation.
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[2026-03-01 06:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran unleashed a furious missile and drone assault across the Arabian Gulf on Saturday in response to a surprise US-Israeli attack, but one city in particular appeared to bear the brunt of it: Dubai.
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[2026-03-01 06:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has denounced the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, calling them a dangerous escalation.
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[2026-03-01 06:40 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Democrats are demanding an immediate vote in the US Congress over military action launched by Donald Trump against Iran, accusing the president of usurping the legislative branch’s power to declare war.
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[2026-03-01 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Norway has urged its citizens to avoid travel to several countries across the Middle East following the Israeli-US war on Iran. The foreign ministry advised against travelling to Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq. Authorities said the guidance reflects the deteriorating security situation and heightened risk across the region.
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[2026-03-01 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Iranians are being directly addressed by leaders inside and outside the country after the United States and Israel launched attacks across Iran, prompting Tehran to respond with a wave of ongoing missile and drone attacks across the region.
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[2026-03-01 06:29 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: March 1, 2026 06:29 | News
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[2026-03-01 06:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iranian people attend a demonstration in support of the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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[2026-03-01 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Italy’s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto was stranded in Dubai on Saturday after flight suspensions followed US and Israeli strikes on Iran, a source close to the ministry said, Reuters reported.
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[2026-03-01 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A young child holds a toy gun while the men around him wield high-powered assault rifles. (ABC News: Marian Faa)
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[2026-03-01 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump's military attack on Iran unless the administration wins their approval for what they warn is a potentially illegal campaign that risks pulling the United States into a deeper Middle East conflict.
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[2026-03-01 06:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued his first statement since launching the war on Iran. “This fateful operation will continue as long as necessary - patience is needed. This war will bring about true peace,” Netanyahu claimed on Saturday evening. He also appeared to reference reports of an attempt on the life of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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[2026-03-01 06:06 UTC+10:00] [Dubai] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: War launched by US and Israel on Iran has quickly escalated prompting anxiety and concern in whole region
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