Topic: Military & Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-03 11:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Trump says US sees ‘everything’ Iran does, threatens further attacks
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[2026-09-03 11:31 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine War] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-09-03 11:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Michelle Steel met with Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back on Thursday, her first such meeting with the top South Korean defense chief since assuming the post in late July.
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[2026-09-03 11:26 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Only shoot at Russian occupiers, president says, after three officers wounded in clash; Patriots could take years to make, says Rubio. What we know on day 1,653
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[2026-09-03 11:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Iranian health ministry's spokesperson indicated in his latest update that 18 people were killed in the recent US strikes on the country, while 142 others were left wounded.
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[2026-09-03 11:05 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Mourners carry a banner against US President Donald Trump as they gather on the day of the burial of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Mashhad, Iran, July 9, 2026.
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[2026-09-03 11:05 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Mourners carry a banner against US President Donald Trump as they gather on the day of the burial of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Mashhad, Iran, July 9, 2026.
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[2026-09-03 11:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Yonhap) -- Defense Minister nominee Kang Shin-chul said Thursday he will pursue the transition of wartime operational command (OPCON) from Washington in a way that will strengthen the South Korea-U.S. alliance.
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[2026-09-03 10:41 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Treasurer Jim Chalmers has defended the government’s changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount after admitting the budget overhaul is contributing to the fall in housing prices, insisting the downturn is temporary and will resolve over time.
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[2026-09-03 09:55 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: Australia and the US flagged further acceleration of America’s military presence in Australia following a meeting between the countries’ defence ministers – though they stopped short of saying it could mean more US troops stationed in Australia.
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[2026-09-03 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Yet another major allegation against Russia has emerged this week in the pages of the London-based Financial Times, which says that Moscow has been helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles, in a clandestine program that has been ongoing throughout the war with the US and Israel.
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[2026-09-03 09:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-03 09:01 UTC+10:00] [Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Patrick Radden Keefe, Ben Macintyre and the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins are among the 13 authors selected for the nonfiction award
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[2026-09-03 09:01 UTC+10:00] [Greenhouse gas emissions] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Oil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls
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[2026-09-03 08:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The latest shooting occurred in Merrylands West. (ABC News: Digby Werthmuller)
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[2026-09-03 07:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Senator Thom Tillis has called on President Donald Trump to fire Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth for creating a “leadership void” within the military amid the ongoing war with Iran.
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[2026-09-03 07:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-03 07:30 UTC+10:00] [Ministry of Defence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: Tobias Ellwood says he gave MPs inaccurate information in 2018 provided by his department, the MoD
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[2026-09-03 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army have announced on Wednesday that troops will take part in a military exercise in the northern occupied West Bank area on Thursday.
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[2026-09-03 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel is still working to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has admitted, saying that US President Donald Trump has only frozen a plan that rights advocates say amounts to ethnic cleansing.
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[2026-09-03 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: On August 9, 1945, a notorious Japanese army unit executed dozens of civilian prisoners in the city of Hailar, on the day the Soviet Union launched an offensive against the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
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[2026-09-03 07:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nearly half of Americans believe their country's military operations and surveillance infrastructure that followed the 11 September 2001 attacks have been "worth it", according to a YouGov poll published on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-03 06:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer huddled with House Republicans on Wednesday as lawmakers reel from President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada and plans to import beef.
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[2026-09-03 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Earlier this week, Daniel Driscoll, the secretary of the United States Army, resigned from his post after he reportedly tried to directly appeal to US President Donald Trump about how changes in the military’s leadership were having an impact on the institution’s readiness for war.
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[2026-09-03 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas is placing former senior police officer and longtime Yesh Atid politician Yoav Segalovich second on the party's electoral slate in an effort to broaden the legitimacy of partnering with Ra'am and bring the party closer to a future government, while risking turning the unusual alliance into a central campaign weapon against him.
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[2026-09-03 06:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself, reasserting that the waterway is under Washington’s control despite near-daily Iranian attacks on ships in the area.
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[2026-09-03 06:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani spoke to his counterparts in Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt on Wednesday to discuss the latest regional tensions following renewed US strikes on Iran.
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[2026-09-03 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Gadi Eisenkot presents himself as one of the most serious and honest figures in Israeli politics. His record of military and public service gives him credibility on the questions that will determine Israel’s future: security, the Palestinians, and the character of the State of Israel.
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[2026-09-03 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A bizarre mini civil war of sorts has erupted among rival Ukrainian security agencies, complete with a wild street shootout and police standoff which has threatened to create more political scandal for President Zelensky - whose office has issued a statement - in an unprecedented saga which seems straight from the plot of a Lioness episode.
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[2026-09-03 05:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-03 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb in 2017. (AP: Jon Borg)
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[2026-09-03 05:05 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: The fire at a Polish drone factory supplying weapons to Ukraine was "deliberate arson," and Russia is likely behind the attack, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at a cabinet meeting Wednesday.
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[2026-09-03 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that a potential attack from Tehran would be "one of their last decisions," as he addressed the ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip and threats from Iran during a visit to the Afiki Daat Hesder Yeshiva in Sderot on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-03 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump warned that the US is prepared to strike Iran again at any time it wants after destroying newly rebuilt radar equipment along the Strait of Hormuz, during a White House press conference on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-03 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The recent purges of Zhong Shaojun, Xi Jinping's "spy" within the military, and Gen. Zhang Youxia, pictured, are the latest examples of Xi's determination to take full control of the PLA ahead of the Communist Party's national congress in 2027. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters)
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[2026-09-03 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: For decades, a tiny Olympic badge, bearing the five rings and the US shield, sat in a glass display cabinet in our home in Mooroolbark, in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, beside my mother’s navy-blue air-hostess hat. The cabinet is now in her lounge in Montrose. I always knew the badge was there.
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[2026-09-03 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The murder of engineering student Marco Tapia in his Sydney home is the latest loss of innocent life in a gangland war being waged by inept and often young criminals willing to kill for just a few thousand dollars.
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[2026-09-03 04:57 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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[2026-09-03 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln made port in eastern Thailand in the crew’s first port call after nine and a half months at sea, following a taxing deployment in the Middle East amid reports of supply issues, deteriorating mental health conditions and low morale on board.
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[2026-09-03 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Amid new reports that Iran has broadened cyber attacks on the US, technology experts are warning that hacking is “perfectly suited to Iran's geopolitical situation”.
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[2026-09-03 04:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott stands on the field during warmups before a preseason NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
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[2026-09-03 04:20 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Defence minister says he believes US backing could tip regional balance in favour of forced resettlement
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[2026-09-03 04:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire in Canada for a social media post that appears to mock members of the country's cadet youth programme.
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[2026-09-03 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr. (9) and Tua Tagovailoa speak during a Atlanta Falcons training camp, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Flowery Branch, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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[2026-09-03 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) commander in an elite IDF unit left the military after senior Shas party rabbi Rabbi Avraham Salim ordered him to do so, according to a KAN News report on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-03 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: New studies examining what they described as Turkey’s use of antisemitism as a tool for diplomatic attacks against Israel, including efforts to incriminate Israeli soldiers through false allegations of “war crimes,” were released by the Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry on Wednesday
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[2026-09-03 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz has effectively been closed since the start of the war in Iran (file photo)
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[2026-09-03 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A diesel-price shock may be approaching Western economies.
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[2026-09-03 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The suggestion follows US president’s renaming of Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’, and comes despite the waterway remaining contested
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[2026-09-03 02:41 UTC+10:00] [Lake America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The suggestion follows US president’s renaming of Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’, and comes despite the waterway remaining contested
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