Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-27 21:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Pakistan carried out air strikes on Afghanistan's major cities overnight, officials in Islamabad and Kabul said on Friday, escalating months of border clashes between the Islamic neighbors.
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[2026-02-27 21:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The US vice-president said Trump’s options range from military strikes ‘to ensure Iran isn’t going to get a nuclear weapon’ to dialogue
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[2026-02-27 21:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told US Embassy staff who wish to leave to "do so TODAY,” the New York Times reported on Friday.
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[2026-02-27 20:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan said on Friday that it had killed 228 Taliban fighters in a series of air strikes on Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
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[2026-02-27 20:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Colgate Raiders (17-13, 11-6 Patriot League) at Navy Midshipmen (24-6, 16-1 Patriot League)
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[2026-02-27 20:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Army Black Knights (11-19, 5-12 Patriot League) at Lafayette Leopards (10-20, 7-10 Patriot League)
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[2026-02-27 20:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Lafayette Leopards (10-17, 6-10 Patriot) at Army Black Knights (21-6, 12-4 Patriot)
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[2026-02-27 20:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Bucknell Bison (9-21, 6-11 Patriot League) at Lehigh Mountain Hawks (14-16, 10-7 Patriot League)
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[2026-02-27 20:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Navy Midshipmen (19-7, 13-2 Patriot) at Colgate Raiders (6-21, 2-14 Patriot)
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[2026-02-27 20:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square has been defaced with graffiti branding the former prime minister a "Zionist war criminal".
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[2026-02-27 20:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: As Ramadan enters its second week, many families observe the holy month displaced from their homes, while others still search for relatives believed to remain beneath the rubble. Palestinian families gathered at Al-Shifa Hospital after overnight Israeli drone strikes on February 26 killed several people, including police officers and civilians, according to local officials.
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[2026-02-27 20:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Pakistan has launched air strikes on Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and other cities, as clashes escalate along the two countries’ shared border.
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[2026-02-27 20:19 UTC+10:00] [National News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines – Rappler senior investigative reporter Lian Buan discusses what to expect during the last day of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court on Friday, February 27.
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[2026-02-27 20:15 UTC+10:00] [Afghanistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Pakistani forces launched airstrikes against military targets in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as well as other provinces close to the border
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[2026-02-27 20:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Head of US Space Force Combat Forces Command also highlights spaceplanes as area of increasing competition with China
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[2026-02-27 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Killings of civilians in Sudan's war more than doubled in 2025 compared with the previous year, the United Nations rights chief said Thursday, warning that thousands more dead are unidentified or remain missing.
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[2026-02-27 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: French aircraft carrier The Charles de Gaulle docks at Subic Bay port, a former U.S. Naval base northwest of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan, File)
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[2026-02-27 20:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, watches as members of the Central Military Commission takes their oath during a session of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on March 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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[2026-02-27 20:03 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-02-27 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Quezon City Hall of Justice received a bomb threat on Friday although explosives experts found "no hazardous materials, explosive, incendiary or similar devices" during an inspection, police said.
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[2026-02-27 19:02 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Islamabad: Pakistan carried out air strikes on Afghanistan’s major cities overnight, officials in Islamabad and Kabul said on Friday, escalating months of border clashes between the Islamic neighbours.
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[2026-02-27 19:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: UK Defence Secretary John Healey has called for an investigation into whether convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and girls into the United Kingdom on private jets that landed at Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bases.
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[2026-02-27 18:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India and Israel would deepen cooperation in defence and artificial intelligence as he concluded a two-day visit to Israel.
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[2026-02-27 18:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: China has removed nine military lawmakers from its national parliament, escalating President Xi Jinping's purge of senior defense officials, which has been a months-long trend, tracked closely by global headlines.
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[2026-02-27 18:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Weird and wonderful real-life tales of authors who have appeared at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, from Margaret Atwood to Salman Rushdie
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[2026-02-27 17:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A United Nations flight landed at Khartoum airport on Thursday, the first since Sudan's nearly three-year war began, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the country said, calling it "a big deal" for aid workers trying to reach millions of Sudanese in need.
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[2026-02-27 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- The defense ministry is set to convene a disciplinary committee against Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Kang Dong-gil on Friday over his alleged involvement in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched martial law bid in late 2024.
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[2026-02-27 17:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India and Israel will collaborate more closely on defence technology while pursuing a free trade agreement, as he wrapped up a controversial two-day visit.
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[2026-02-27 17:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Both Penang’s youngest executive councillor and his wife claimed they acted in self-defence after a squabble turned physical
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[2026-02-27 17:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [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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[2026-02-27 17:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The snow falling over Washington this week did more than slow traffic and empty sidewalks. It seemed to mirror the cautious mood inside policy circles across the capital, where discussions about Iran were measured, hesitant, and far from the sense of urgency felt back in Israel.
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[2026-02-27 17:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israeli water exports to Jordan have dropped by half after an annual deal that provided extra supplies to the kingdom expired, reflecting the tension between the countries since the start of the Gaza war and recent unilateral Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-02-27 17:15 UTC+10:00] [Business / The economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-02-27 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Pakistan has said it is now in “open war” with Afghanistan’s Taliban government as explosions were reported in Kabul and fighting continues in other locations along the border. Pakistan says it has also attacked Kandahar and Paktika inside Afghanistan.
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[2026-02-27 17:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Allies are watching as President Emmanuel Macron prepares to update the country’s nuclear doctrine and spell out how French nuclear weapons fit into Europe’s security. The move comes as European leaders question how reliable the U.S. nuclear umbrella remains after recurring tensions with President Donald Trump over Ukraine, Greenland, and NATO.
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[2026-02-27 17:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States have agreed to conduct 22 field training drills as initially planned during their annual joint springtime military exercise next month, officials said Friday, marking a sharp cutdown from the previous year.
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[2026-02-27 17:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A sizeable exhibit in the Museum of the Revolution in Havana is dedicated to conditions in Cuba before the revolution took power in 1959. Inside the ornate former presidential palace, photographs and oral testimony detail the grinding poverty and ingrained corruption of the dictatorship of Cuba's then-military strongman, Fulgencio Batista.
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[2026-02-27 16:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: At least five Palestinians have been killed in Israeli drone attacks targeting two police posts in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis in the south, as Israel presses on with its more than two-year genocidal war on the devastated enclave.
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[2026-02-27 16:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will meet with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during a visit that is seen to further strengthen the two countries' defense, maritime and economic cooperation, Malacañang announced Friday.
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[2026-02-27 16:39 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-02-27 16:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has affirmed that the people of Pakistan and its armed forces are fully prepared to protect the country’s security, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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[2026-02-27 16:33 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-02-27 16:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Margaret Crescent in Dubbo where a man died after being stabbed. (ABC Western Plains: Ondine Slack-Smith)
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[2026-02-27 16:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Deputy Chief of Army Major General Chris Smith has taken aim at the "unavoidable creep of managerial speak" within the Australian Defence Force.
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[2026-02-27 16:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Farouk Abkar, a 60-year-old former charity kitchen worker who spent a year distributing grain and organizing lines at a charity kitchen in Zam Zam refugee camp in Sudan, peers from his home window in 6 October city, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Khaled el Fiqi)
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[2026-02-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Data and Documents] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-02-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Germany] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exhibits pay homage to Ukrainians’ resilience and bring home the reality that war is going on in Europe
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[2026-02-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Palestinian worshippers line up to pass through the Israeli military Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on their way to attend Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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[2026-02-27 15:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GENEVA, Switzerland— Iran and the United States made "significant progress" in talks in Switzerland on Thursday, mediators said, after the latest round of negotiations to avert a war between the longtime foes, and agreed to further discussions next week in Austria.
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[2026-02-27 15:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LOS ANGELES, United States — The young woman at the center of a landmark social media addiction lawsuit testified on Thursday that YouTube and Instagram fueled her depression and suicidal thoughts as a child, a decline in her mental health that the defense attributed to a dysfunctional family and offline troubles.
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