Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-26 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: In the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, New Tuva has helped as many as 400 draft-eligible Tyvans escape death on the front lines.
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[2026-02-26 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces killed 34 militants in multiple raids across the country, the military said on Wednesday, as a separate ambush blamed on the Pakistani Taliban killed four police officers near the Afghan border.
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[2026-02-26 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran has rejected accusations that it is seeking nuclear weapons, denouncing US President Donald Trump’s latest remarks as false and misleading.
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[2026-02-26 02:32 UTC+10:00] [Journalist safety] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of ‘intentionally targeted’ journalist killings
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[2026-02-26 02:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Abu Dhabi’s Edge Group signed an agreement with Spain’s EM&E Group on Thursday to explore the establishment of a joint venture in the UAE focused on advanced defence technologies. The companies said the agreement was supported by a commercial pipeline of about $1.5 billion.
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[2026-02-26 02:06 UTC+10:00] [Israel-Gaza war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Hamas to almost certainly reject plan described in Israeli press, say experts, as no guarantee Israel will withdraw on surrender of weapons
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[2026-02-26 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Hezbollah official said that the Lebanese terror group will not get involved militarily if the United States carries out "limited" strikes against Iran, AFP reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-02-26 01:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Zimbabwe has imposed an immediate freeze on exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrate, the mines ministry announced Wednesday, tightening state control over resources critical to global clean-energy and defense industries.
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[2026-02-26 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ordered military units and additional police to guard energy infrastructure sites in his country’s east, citing the threat of potential Ukrainian attacks.
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[2026-02-26 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (FADC) on Tuesday held a heated debate over potential suggested changes to the IDF Code of Ethics.
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[2026-02-26 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Gaza firm has been contracted to build an Emirati-funded compound for tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in a part of the territory under Israeli military control, two Israeli officials and two Palestinian businessmen told Reuters.
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[2026-02-26 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Japan's defence minister said the deployment on Yonaguni island would take place in the 2030 fiscal year. (Reuters: Kyodo )
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[2026-02-26 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A behavioral AI simulation created by Israeli startup AskIt suggests that a decisive majority of senior commanders in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) would back a military leader, not a cleric, to replace Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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[2026-02-26 01:11 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
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[2026-02-26 01:02 UTC+10:00] [Comment & Analysis] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2026-02-26 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: ISIS has launched a wave of daily attacks on Syrian government forces in north-eastern Syria in the days following the group’s declaration of war on the country’s leadership, even as the authorities intensify counter-terrorism efforts amid fears of a security vacuum.
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[2026-02-26 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on Wednesday delivered its autonomous BlueWhale mini-submarine to the German Navy, further cementing defense relations between Israel and Germany.
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[2026-02-26 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Unusually detailed posts by commercial firm MizarVision about America’s deployments in the Middle East are grabbing attention
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[2026-02-26 00:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Ghana's Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa on a rare visit to Ukraine on Wednesday urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to release two Ghanaian prisoners of war who were captured fighting for Russia.
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[2026-02-26 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Heavy battlefield losses are likely to prevent Russia from launching a major new offensive in Ukraine in the coming months, Western officials and military analysts told Bloomberg as the war entered its fifth year.
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[2026-02-26 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
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[2026-02-26 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A row is simmering between the United States government and Anthropic, one of the tech companies that develops artificial intelligence (AI) tools for defence and civilian uses.
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[2026-02-26 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Guinea's military has confirmed the detention of 16 Sierra Leonean soldiers after accusing them of crossing the border and raising their flag on Guinean soil, while Freetown maintains its troops were on its own territory constructing a border post, the latest flare-up in a decades-old territorial dispute.
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[2026-02-25 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Moscow, Russia — What was meant to be a swift military operation to topple the Ukrainian government and take control of the country has now dragged on for four devastating years.
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[2026-02-25 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Provided continued AI disruption, indiscriminate software stock selling, and credit market risks do not trigger a broader risk-off market event in the coming weeks or months, a June SpaceX IPO could become the bedrock for the grand reopening of the IPO market. The second-order effects of a SpaceX IPO would be improved sentiment toward AI companies going public and potentially a serious investor appetite for the low-Earth-orbit space industry.
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[2026-02-25 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Twelve American F-22 Raptor fighter jets landed at an Israel Air Force base on Tuesday evening as tensions in the Middle East continue to rise and uncertainty looms on the Iranian front.
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[2026-02-25 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran on Wednesday denied Donald Trump's claim that it is building missiles that “could soon reach the US”, even as one expert called them “broadly true”.
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[2026-02-25 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The estimates of defense deals which Israel and India are expected to sign as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Jerusalem are eye-popping with some reaching between $8-10 billion, when also consulting Indian media.
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[2026-02-25 23:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranians, like other people in the Middle East, are preparing for the possibility of war. This comes after weeks of US-Iran tensions.
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[2026-02-25 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Converge rookie Juan Gomez De Liano made the final 12, while his teammate Justine Baltazar, along with Ginebra’s Troy Rosario and RJ Abarrientos were left out as Gilas coach Tim Cone opted to put premium on familiarity of the team system as the Philippines go to war against New Zealand and Australia in the second window of the FIBA World Cup 2027 Asian Qualifiers.
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[2026-02-25 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Converge rookie Juan Gomez De Liano made the final 12, while his teammate Justine Baltazar, along with Ginebra’s Troy Rosario and RJ Abarrientos were left out as Gilas coach Tim Cone opted to put premium on familiarity of the team system as the Philippines go to war against New Zealand and Australia in the second window of the FIBA World Cup 2027 Asian Qualifiers.
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[2026-02-25 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A military air strike by the Myanmar military in Rakhine state has killed at least 17 people and injured 14 others, local media reported, in the latest civil war carnage weeks after a military-backed governing party election win was dismissed as a “sham” by international observers.
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[2026-02-25 22:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: UK Police have arrested a man and are searching for another suspect for allegedly carrying weapons into a mosque in central Manchester on Tuesday evening.
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[2026-02-25 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-02-25 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LIMA — The only survivor of a military helicopter crash in southern Peru that killed 15 people was a small dog belonging to a colonel who was among the passengers, an air force source told AFP Tuesday.
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[2026-02-25 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In his State of the Union address Trump said his preference was to use diplomacy in dealing with Iran. But, he added, “I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror — which they are, by far — to have a nuclear weapon.”
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[2026-02-25 22:23 UTC+10:00] [State of the Union address] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President claimed during longest ever State of the Union speech that Tehran was building weapons that could strike the US
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[2026-02-25 22:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Tartan Army have been given the green light to wear sporrans with their kilts at World Cup matches this summer, the Scottish Football Association (SFA) has confirmed.
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[2026-02-25 22:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS, UPDATES throughout with briefing details) By Kim Hyun-soo
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[2026-02-25 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Guinea’s junta leader Col. Mamady Doumbouya watches over an independence day military parade in Bamako, Mali on Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-02-25 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Eight Iraqi soldiers have been killed in a road accident in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, the Defence Ministry announced on Wednesday.
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[2026-02-25 22:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran’s political and military structures are unique globally, with power concentrated in the supreme leader, who sits at the top of a multi-layered system of elected institutions, unelected bodies and parallel military forces.
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[2026-02-25 21:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Relatives of those killed during the Russian occupation react at the Wall of Remembrance during a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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[2026-02-25 21:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Starmer is in zugzwang. Mandelson arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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[2026-02-25 21:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Court of Appeal today dismissed two writ petitions filed by Avant-Garde Maritime Services and its employees, which sought to overturn an order issued by the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence to remove three of the company’s armouries.
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[2026-02-25 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A growing number of countries have warned their citizens in Iran to leave amid the threat of possible strikes by the United States.
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[2026-02-25 20:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A number of Palestinians have been injured in separate attacks by the Israeli army and settlers in the Hebron area of the occupied West Bank, amid an escalating wave of state-backed violence as Israel concurrently continues its genocidal war on Gaza.
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[2026-02-25 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘Going to war with America, Israel and Nato will have very horrible and unpredictable consequences,’ a Tehran resident says
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[2026-02-25 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A man has been arrested after allegedly walking into a mosque carrying weapons including an axe and a knife.
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[2026-02-25 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iranian state TV released on Tuesday a video showing the country’s Revolutionary Guard holding a drill that included launching missiles, flying drones and firing guns at targets along its coast, without elaborating on the exact time or place of the exercise.
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