Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2025-12-26 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The unprecedented transparency from the normally secretive country shows a shift in North Korean defence strategy, analysts say
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[2025-12-26 10:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US strikes targeting militants were carried out in cooperation with the Nigerian government
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[2025-12-26 09:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Poland said its air defence forces intercepted a Russian reconnaissance aircraft near Polish airspace over the Baltic Sea.
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[2025-12-26 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Donald Trump unveils new class of ship meant to ‘inspire fear in America’s enemies’, but analysts say the initiative faces huge hurdles
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[2025-12-26 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: North Korea on Thursday (25) released new images of what it claims is its first nuclear-powered submarine, a massive vessel equal in size to some of the United States Navy’s attack subs.
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[2025-12-26 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Havelock Sports Club, still unbeaten this season, will look to extend their winning streak when they host Army Sports Club in their Week 7 match of the Maliban SLR Inter-Club ‘A’ Division League Rugby Tournament at Havelock Park on Saturday December 27, with kick-off at 3.00 pm.
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[2025-12-26 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Scouts marched under a clear blue sky in Bethlehem on Wednesday (24), as the Palestinian city emerged from the shadow of the war in Gaza to celebrate its first festive Christmas in more than two years.
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[2025-12-26 06:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Police Narcotics Bureau has obtained a seven-day detention order to question 11 suspects arrested in connection with a large quantity of narcotics seized from a fishing trawler off the Southern coast by the Sri Lanka Navy. Police stated the detention order was granted after the suspects were presented before the Aluthkade Magistrate’s Court.
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[2025-12-26 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Police have seized 2,341 firearms and around 23,000 kilogrammes of narcotics during raids conducted islandwide this year. Police Spokesman F.U. Wootler said the weapons include 73 T-56 assault rifles, 83 pistols, 59 revolvers and 2,126 other firearms. Meanwhile, Police operations also resulted in the seizure of large quantities of narcotics, including 1,793 kilogrammes of heroin, 3,683 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine (Ice), 16,686 kilogrammes of cannabis, 37 kilogrammes of cocaine, and 746 kilogrammes of hashish.
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[2025-12-26 06:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Thailand and Cambodia have reported new fighting in their ongoing border conflict, as the first talks between the sides since the latest outbreak of violence get under way. Thailand’s military said on Wednesday that there had been clashes in the border provinces of Sisaket and Surin, Thai media reported, with Thai Forces responding to Cambodian BM-21 rocket attacks with artillery, tank fire and drones.
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[2025-12-26 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2025-12-26 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Feat seen to catapult China into global top tier of ultra-high-speed maglev technology and unlock new possibilities for hyperloop transport
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[2025-12-26 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah on Tuesday confirmed the death of Libyan military chief Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad in a plane crash in Turkey.
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[2025-12-26 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ukraine has been warding off a full-scale Russian invasion since February 2022
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[2025-12-25 23:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Mitte Dezember war es wieder so weit. Da kritisierte Papst Leo XIV. (70) den US-Präsidenten Donald Trump (79) deutlich, ohne ihn namentlich oder auch nur in seiner Funktion zu nennen. "Die Äußerungen über Europa, auch in den jüngsten Interviews, versuchen meiner Meinung nach, das zu zerstören, was ich für ein sehr wichtiges Bündnis heute und in Zukunft halte", hieß es vom Papst.
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[2025-12-25 19:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference endorsed removals at meeting on Wednesday, Xinhua reports
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[2025-12-25 18:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From hardware on show at China’s military parade to anti-drone systems, here are some of the year’s most notable People’s Liberation Army stories
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[2025-12-25 16:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: While the ruling has been hailed as a win for human rights, it may not have much impact on Duterte’s ICC case, legal analysts say
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[2025-12-25 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Scottie Scheffler enjoyed another stellar year and the civil war between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour rumbles on
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[2025-12-25 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Helping others, starting meaningful conversations and making the festive season more sustainable are just a few ways to celebrate this year
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[2025-12-25 10:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘May the clamour of weapons cease … and may the parties involved find the courage to engage in sincere, direct and respectful dialogue’
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[2025-12-25 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: PLA warplanes and ships have been less active around the island in the second half of the year, Taiwanese data shows
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[2025-12-25 08:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: South Korea is taking steps to cool tensions – from moving to opening joint military drills to consultations to easing up on immediate denuclearisation demands
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[2025-12-25 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Libya’s Prime Minister said the country’s Chief of Staff was killed in an airplane accident in Turkiye, after he visited Ankara.
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[2025-12-25 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Suspects, vessel brought to Dikowita Fisheries Harbour Well-organized, intensive drug raids with a plan in operation
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[2025-12-25 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Sri Lanka, AdelIbrahim, paid a courtesy call on the Defence Deputy Minister, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd), at the Deputy Minister’s Office on Tuesday (23).
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[2025-12-25 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The fifth meeting of the High-Level Committee for Foreign Relief Aid (Supplies) Coordination (HL-FRAC) was held at the Deputy Minister’s office yesterday (December 23), chaired by the Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd).
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[2025-12-25 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Two Police officers and another person have been killed in a blast in Southern Moscow, near where a General was killed recently by a car bomb Russia said was planted by Ukrainian intelligence, according to investigators.
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[2025-12-25 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lanka Navy is contributing to Nena Diri Meheyuma, a week-long initiative led by the Uva Provincial Education Ministry from December 20 to 27. The initiatives focus on rehabilitating schools and pre-schools in the Badulla district that sustained damage from Cyclone Ditwah.
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[2025-12-25 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: During an operation conducted in the early hours of Tuesday (23), the Sri Lanka Navy seized an Indian fishing trawler and apprehended 12 Indian fishermen, while they were poaching in Sri Lankan waters north of Talaimannar.
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[2025-12-25 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The United States and Ukraine have reached a consensus on several critical issues aimed at bringing an end to the nearly four-year conflict, but sensitive issues around territorial control in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, along with the management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, remain unresolved, Ukraine’s president said.
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[2025-12-25 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: After two years of cancelled festivities, the ‘City of the Nativity’ revives its iconic parades and tree lighting as a fragile truce holds in Gaza
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[2025-12-25 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [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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[2025-12-25 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [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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[2025-12-25 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [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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[2025-12-24 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rare insight revealed on state television in footage from a PLA wargaming event in central China where dozens of systems were demonstrated
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[2025-12-24 21:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sampath Manamperi, who is currently in the custody of the Police Western Province North Crimes Division over allegations of concealing two containers of raw materials allegedly used in the production of the drug crystal methamphetamine (‘Ice’) and possession of weapons, was produced before the Walasmulla Magistrate’s Court today (24).
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[2025-12-24 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Generals Chang Dingqiu and Guo Puxiao were not present at PLA promotions ceremony on Monday, footage broadcast by CCTV shows
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[2025-12-24 20:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Zelensky weighs land concessions to Putin in a US-backed deal, seeking a ceasefire and a demilitarised zone in Donetsk to end Russia’s war
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[2025-12-24 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: ترکي او لیبیایي چارواکو تایید کړې ده چې پيښه هغه وخت رامنځته شوې چې نوموړی له څو نورو پوځي چارواکو سره د ترکیې له رسمي سفر څخه په خپله اختصاصي الوتکه کې د بیرته ستنیدو په حال کې و.
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[2025-12-24 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Nearly 160 kilograms of ‘ice’ (crystal methamphetamine) valued at over Rs. two billion have been recovered from a multi-day fishing vessel taken into custody at the Dikowita Fisheries Harbour, Deputy Minister of Defence Aruna Jayasekara said.
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[2025-12-24 17:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [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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[2025-12-24 15:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Libyan army chief has been killed in an air crash in Turkey, Libya’s prime minister has said.
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[2025-12-24 15:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Over 21 kilograms of heroin were recovered from a multi-day fishing vessel taken into custody by the Sri Lanka Navy in the southern seas and brought to the Dikkowita Fisheries Harbour today (24).
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[2025-12-24 14:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Sri Lanka Navy has seized a local multi-day fishing vessel suspected of transporting smuggled drugs in the Southern seas.
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[2025-12-24 13:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Report adds that Americans’ security is threatened by Beijing’s development of its ‘historic military build-up’, including nuclear arsenal
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[2025-12-24 12:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: Don't pay so you can read it. Pay so everyone can!
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[2025-12-24 10:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Germany has deported a convicted criminal to Syria for the first time since the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, the Interior Ministry has said.
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[2025-12-24 07:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Investigators are looking into a technical failure that brought down the delegation’s Falcon 50 jet shortly after take-off from Ankara
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[2025-12-24 07:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: "Das war ein großartiges Jahr, wir haben einen guten Geist und eine Energie im Team", sagte Harry Kane, Torjäger des FC Bayern, nach dem klaren 4:0-Auswärtserfolg beim 1. FC Heidenheim am 15. und letzten Bundesliga-Spieltag 2025. "Jetzt freuen wir uns schon aufs neue Jahr." Die Spieler und Verantwortlichen der Münchener können beruhigt in die Weihnachtsferien gehen.
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