Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-20 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Kuwait army said that its air defences were responding to "hostile drone threats" from Iran, urging the public to "adhere to safety and security instructions issued by the relevant authorities".
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[2026-07-20 08:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-07-20 07:37 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. has called on the Filipino youth to become defenders of truth and active partners in protecting the country’s sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), stressing that national resilience begins with an informed and united citizenry.
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[2026-07-20 07:36 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine War] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-07-20 07:36 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — The military has placed its troops in Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur on heightened alert following two separate grenade attacks as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) classified 27 areas in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) under the red category ahead of the region’s first parliamentary elections on Sept.
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[2026-07-20 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pittsburgh Pirates’ Paul Skenes pitches in the first inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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[2026-07-20 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mon 20 Jul 2026 at 7:00am
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[2026-07-20 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has brushed aside Democratic lawmakers’ calls to end the war with Iran after two US service members were killed in a missile strike on a military base in the Middle East. The Republican appeared to downplay the extent of the casualties in the conflict, suggesting that the death tolls suffered by the US military during the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars were far higher.
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[2026-07-20 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has brushed aside Democratic lawmakers’ calls to end the war with Iran after four US service members were killed in a missile strike on a military base in the Middle East. The Republican appeared to downplay the extent of the casualties in the conflict, suggesting that the death tolls suffered by the US military during the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars were far higher.
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[2026-07-20 06:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: New York Mets starting pitcher Nolan McLean delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Sunday, July 19, 2026, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
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[2026-07-20 06:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japanese and Cambodian officials meet to sign the Official Security Assistance agreement. (Keito Nakaoka)
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[2026-07-20 06:16 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US military says service member was killed in Iraq during ‘controlled detonation’ as it launches more airstrikes at Iran
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[2026-07-20 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Tehran12:30 p.m. July 20
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[2026-07-20 06:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Tehran11:48 p.m. July 19
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[2026-07-20 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Kuwait’s defence ministry says Iran “continues to target civilian and vital facilities in the country”, and has caused fires and “severe damage” to facilities by its attacks.
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[2026-07-20 05:22 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The sell-off for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom deepened and yanked stock markets lower worldwide. Oil prices, meanwhile, continued to jump because of the war with Iran.
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[2026-07-20 04:48 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Energy secretary grapples with mounting criticism over length of US war as Democrat calls conflict ‘war of choice’
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[2026-07-20 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-20 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Middle East has a long history of wars of attrition. It now appears that the Trump administration is prepared for a war of attrition with the Iranian regime.
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[2026-07-20 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hours after shrapnel from an Iranian ballistic missile, which had been fired at Jordan, ultimately landed in Israel just north of Eilat, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir threatened the Islamic Republic with a potential harsh counterstrike if the regime gets any closer to the Jewish state.
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[2026-07-20 02:50 UTC+10:00] [US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: The United States was sending more warplanes to the Middle East, according to American officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity on Sunday, another sign the Trump administration may soon further escalate its strikes against Iran.
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[2026-07-20 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin announced he would end his involvement in opposition politics, saying mounting pressure from the Russian authorities had left him with no choice.
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[2026-07-20 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iranian attacks damaged a power generation and water desalination complex in Kuwait and triggered air defences in Jordan and Bahrain on Sunday, hours after the US carried out an eighth consecutive night of military strikes on Iran.
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[2026-07-20 02:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-07-20 02:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-07-20 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Russia overnight and into early Sunday morning unleashed what Ukrainian officials have described as its largest barrage of ballistic missiles focused on Kiev of the war.
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[2026-07-20 02:12 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Tehran struck U.S. allies across the Persian Gulf region on Sunday and American forces bombed Iran for an eighth straight night, with the interim peace deal dead and neither side backing down.
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[2026-07-20 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States launched new airstrikes Saturday to "punish" Iran after reporting the first US military deaths since renewing its hostilities with the Islamic republic.
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[2026-07-20 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-20 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-07-20 01:38 UTC+10:00] [Zohran Mamdani] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: NYC mayor says in Times interview that’s he’s in ‘active conversation’ with city’s law department about the matter
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[2026-07-20 01:17 UTC+10:00] [US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Iran has been increasingly targeting Jordan with attacks like the one on Friday that killed two U.S. servicemen. The reason, analysts said, is because Jordan has been playing a more central role in U.S. military operations against Iran.
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[2026-07-20 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump described the deaths of two US service members in Iranian attacks on Jordan as a “shame,” defending the recently renewed US-Iran hostilities during a phone call with the New York Post on Saturday.
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[2026-07-20 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF has killed at least around 420 Gazan terrorists since the October 2025 ceasefire, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
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[2026-07-20 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is concerned that the Iranian military is growing increasingly effective at penetrating its air defenses in the Middle East, several media outlets have reported, citing anonymous officials. It comes off the back of a deadly missile and drone strike on a military base in Jordan on Friday, which left two American service members killed and another one missing, according to the Pentagon.
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[2026-07-20 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is concerned that the Iranian military is growing increasingly effective at penetrating its air defenses in the Middle East, several media outlets have reported, citing anonymous officials. It comes off the back of a deadly missile and drone strike on a military base in Jordan on Friday, which left two American service members killed and another one missing, according to the Pentagon.
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[2026-07-20 00:40 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: He said that about "two-thirds" of normal traffic is sailing through.
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[2026-07-20 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Social activist and IDF reservist Omri Ronen will not be allowed to return to service in the military, Defense Minister Israel Katz said in an X/Twitter post on Sunday.
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[2026-07-20 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hezbollah’s attack on the Lebanese Army in Mansouri over the weekend was the terror group’s way of “hinting” that it would escalate if threatened, Eyal Zisser, Vice-Rector at Tel Aviv University and an expert in Hezbollah’s political strategy, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
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[2026-07-19 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-07-19 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF's Iron Dome was used on Sunday afternoon to shoot down fragments of an Iranian ballistic missile fired at Jordan near the border with Israel after the US Aegis anti-missile system had already been used to shoot down the primary missile warhead.
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[2026-07-19 22:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: At least one person was killed and 16 were wounded, heaping pressure on Kyiv’s foreign partners to accelerate supply of anti-ballistic defences
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[2026-07-19 22:49 UTC+10:00] [Russian] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: At least one person was killed and 16 were wounded, heaping pressure on Kyiv’s foreign partners to accelerate supply of anti-ballistic defences
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[2026-07-19 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Critical infrastructure in Kuwait was a “relatively attractive target” for Iran as it sought to escalate without risking a larger response from its Gulf neighbors, international relations expert Dr. Arman Mahmoudian, a research fellow at the University of South Florida’s Global and National Security Institute, explained to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
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[2026-07-19 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: As the hours pass and more American forces arrive in the Middle East, coordination between the IDF and US military will naturally tighten, “with the goal of shortening the time it takes to move from routine to emergency readiness,” a senior security official said on Sunday.
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[2026-07-19 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Spacecraft to hit at 9km/s, equivalent to over 26 times the speed of sound near sea level and nearly 50 per cent faster than Nasa’s mission
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[2026-07-19 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Spacecraft to hit at 9km/s, equivalent to over 26 times the speed of sound near sea level and nearly 50 per cent faster than Nasa’s mission
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[2026-07-19 21:51 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Senior members of the nation’s Defense Ministry and Self-Defense Forces have opened accounts on X, formerly Twitter, to counter China’s cognitive warfare by disseminating accurate information quickly.
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[2026-07-19 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In the latest development related to what some analysts have called the 'new Cold War' and nuclear saber-rattling between Russia and the West, Germany and France are planning a major nuclear exercise later this year.
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[2026-07-19 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has unveiled a new counter unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) called HYPNOSIS, a new high‑power navigation warfare (NAVWAR) air‑defense system designed to disrupt and neutralize aerial threats that rely on satellite‑based navigation. The system adds a dedicated soft‑kill layer to existing air‑defense architectures, aiming to counter the growing use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) deployed in large numbers.
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