Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-24 08:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The United States is holding meetings in Geneva with Russian and Chinese delegations about nuclear weapons, after the final treaty restricting Washington and Moscow's nuclear deployment expired, a US official said Monday.
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[2026-02-24 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
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[2026-02-24 08:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (URGENT) S. Korea to seek reinstatement of no-fly zone under suspended 2018 inter-Korean military pact: unification minister
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[2026-02-24 08:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
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[2026-02-24 08:07 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Mexico City: A visit from a romantic partner of infamous cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, known as “El Mencho,” led to his capture and death, Mexican authorities said in an assessment of Sunday’s operation, after which 25 members of the National Guard military police were killed in retaliatoryviolence.
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[2026-02-24 08:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mark Carney is looking to strengthen trade relationships beyond the US. (Reuters: Carlos Osorio)
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[2026-02-24 08:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — AI giant Anthropic is at risk of losing a lucrative Pentagon contract over its policy that its technology should never be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or in fully autonomous weapons systems.
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[2026-02-24 08:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US military said on Monday that it struck a vessel in the Caribbean, killing three men, the latest such incident in recent months.
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[2026-02-24 08:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Revelers take part in the annual flour war marking the end of the Carnival season on Clean Monday in Galaxidi, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of Athens, Monday Feb. 23, 2026, starting the 40-day Christian Lent fast leading to Easter. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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[2026-02-24 07:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin has already started World War III, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated during an interview with BBC’s Jeremy Bowen on Sunday.
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[2026-02-24 07:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Around 20 IDF lone soldiers celebrated bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies at the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem on Monday morning, marking the first time they did so as Jews after completing a conversion process during their military service.
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[2026-02-24 07:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
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[2026-02-24 07:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Mexican journalist Luis Cárdenas, listed as a journalist at MVS Noticias and a contributor to El Universal and El Heraldo de México, spoke with security analyst Oscar Balmen about the Mexican Army Special Forces' decapitation strike against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) by killing Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes.
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[2026-02-24 07:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Christopher Yeaw, center, arrives to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be an assistant Secretary of State, Nov. 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
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[2026-02-24 07:14 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: It is the third such attack in a week, and is part of increased US forces in the Caribbean
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[2026-02-24 07:12 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: The US military on Monday said it carried out another strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing three "narco-terrorists."
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[2026-02-24 07:08 UTC+10:00] [Mexico] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump tells Mexico to ‘step up’ effort to combat cartels even after military operation kills drug lord known as ‘El Mencho’
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[2026-02-24 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States military has announced another strike in the Caribbean Sea that it said targeted drug smugglers, killing three people.
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[2026-02-24 07:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Top Democratic officials who worked on the party’s still-secret autopsy of the 2024 presidential election concluded that Kamala Harris lost meaningful support because of the Biden administration’s approach to Israel’s war in Gaza, according to a report by Axios.
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[2026-02-24 06:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: India clears procurement of 114 Rafale jets in Rs 3.6 lakh cr military modernisation push India and France will co-produce Rafale fighter jets as well as helicopters, French President Emmanuel Macron said, news agency Reuters reported. New Delhi had last week already cleared a long-pending proposal to procure 114 Rafale fighter jets under a Government-to-Government framework with France.
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[2026-02-24 06:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Greek seaside town of Galaxidi exploded into a messy ‘flour war’ on Monday to mark the end of the carnival season. Every year the town’s main coastal road becomes a flour-strewn mess, with revellers pelting each other with bags of dyed flour, dancing and riding carnival floats.
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[2026-02-24 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: UCLA’s Roch Cholowsky (1) runs during an NCAA baseball game against Loyola Marymount, April 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong, File)
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[2026-02-24 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The European Union has imposed sanctions on a new group of eight Russian individuals suspected of serious human rights violations, as EU member state Hungary vetoed additional sanctions on Moscow and a crucial loan for Ukraine on the eve of the war’s fourth anniversary.
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[2026-02-24 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A suspect (37) with around 2 kilograms of foreign-origin cannabis and a motor bike was arrested by the Navy and the Divisional Crime Detective Bureau of Mannar on February 22 in the Saliyawewa area of Puttalam.
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[2026-02-24 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Navy apprehended 10 persons with illegally harvested sea cucumbers, dinghies and diving equipment during a search operation in the sea area west of Iranativu, Kilinochchi on February 23.
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[2026-02-24 06:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Offshore Patrol Vessel P 628, which was handed over to the Sri Lanka Navy by the U.S. Coast Guard in December 2025, departed for Sri Lanka from Baltimore, United States on Friday (20). The homebound journey began, after the modernisation work of the ship to suit the operational needs of the Sri Lanka Navy.
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[2026-02-24 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Exactly four years ago this day, Russian tanks rolled into neighbouring Ukraine, with the intention of capturing Kyiv and most other areas within just 10 days. That proved to be a huge miscalculation. The war, the first in Continental Europe since World War II, is still raging on, despite several attempts by mediators to resolve it, with the most recent discussions taking place as late as last week.
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[2026-02-24 06:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Ruslana Bronovytska's son Dmytro was killed fighting for Ukraine. (ABC News: Lisa Bukreyeva)
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[2026-02-24 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: What is it like negotiating with the Russians over the war in Ukraine?
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[2026-02-24 06:14 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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[2026-02-24 05:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The unprecedented US buildup near Iran marks the largest regional mobilisation since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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[2026-02-24 05:39 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Despite relentless attrition at appalling human cost, the Kremlin has not achieved its goals. Maximum economic pressure can undermine its war aims
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[2026-02-24 05:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Riley Stuart is a digital producer based in the ABC's Europe bureau. He has reported extensively from the Middle East during the Israel-Hamas war, and from Washington DC, on the Trump administration. He has a weekly segment on Radio Sydney, and has previously been the corporation's NSW digital editor, and made regular contributions on triple j.
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[2026-02-24 05:30 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The diamonds arrive in secret. Plucked out of one of the deepest holes ever cut into the earth, beneath the permafrost of Siberia, and then shipped across the world on shadowy fleets to be cut and polished in places such as India and Dubai.
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[2026-02-24 05:28 UTC+10:00] [Mexico] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Streets empty as residents shield from chaos of retaliatory attacks after death of ‘El Mencho’ in federal raid
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[2026-02-24 05:03 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Viktor Orbán’s government blocks fresh economic measures against Russia on eve of war’s fourth anniversary
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[2026-02-24 05:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Iranian authorities are creating more unofficial channels to sell oil and import essential goods under the weight of United States sanctions and a looming war, but judges and experts have raised alarms over risks of corruption.
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[2026-02-24 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Mexico’s most influential cartel boss, who was among the most sought-after fugitives in the United States, has been killed, according to the Mexican Secretariat of National Defence.
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[2026-02-24 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: During World War II, a tunnel in Glenbrook at the base of the Blue Mountains was used to store thousands of tonnes of mustard gas. Those contents – and the men who were responsible for looking after the deadly chemical weapons – were such a secret that locals living nearby did not know of them for at least another 50 years.
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[2026-02-24 04:35 UTC+10:00] [Trump tariffs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US president’s international trade war spooks investors, with drops in US share prices following UK and European losses
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[2026-02-24 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Hungary strikes again... As the European Union confirms no agreement Monday on a proposed 20th package of sanctions against Russia, EU leaders are furious at Budapest.
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[2026-02-24 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Members of the Colombian guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN), from left, Aureliano Carbonel, Pablo Beltran and Antonio Garcia sit with Ivan Danilo Rueda, High Commissioner for Peace on behalf of the Colombian government, second from right, and government representative Ivan Cepeda, during a signing ceremony agreeing to resume peace talks, at the Casa Cultural Aquiles Nazoa in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct.
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[2026-02-24 03:51 UTC+10:00] [Photography] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: From children’s funerals to underground shelters to the frontline, Kochetova has captured the conflict with power and humanity for the Guardian. ‘I have the same scars as the people I photograph,’ she says ahead of a major show
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[2026-02-24 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: President Donald Trump on Monday called on Mexico to boost its efforts targeting drug cartels as widespread violence spread across the United States' southern neighbor one day after a military raid killed a notorious Mexican drug lord.
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[2026-02-24 03:42 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: February 24, 2026 03:42 | News
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[2026-02-24 03:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Ethiopia celebrated the 65th anniversary of its Special Operations Command on Sunday in Hawassa, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed praising the military's modernization efforts, as renewed tensions simmer along the Tigray border—the region devastated by civil war between 2020 and 2022.
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[2026-02-24 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The top diplomat working on implementing US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, has told The National that war could return to the enclave if it remains divided between Israeli and Hamas control.
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[2026-02-24 03:22 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Stephen Lillie on the fourth anniversary of the war in Ukraine – cartoon
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[2026-02-24 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: S&P Global vice chairman Daniel Yergin said on Monday the threat of a military confrontation between the US and Iran is putting a premium on oil prices.
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[2026-02-24 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL — South Korea has protested to Russia after its embassy in Seoul unfurled a giant banner declaring “Victory will be ours,” an apparent reference to the anniversary of the Ukraine war.
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