Topic: Natural Disasters — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-11 19:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel and Iran exchanged fire early Wednesday, with Tehran keeping up pressure on the region's oil industry, targeting infrastructure and ships as global energy concerns mounted and the war in the Middle East showed no signs of abating.
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[2026-03-11 19:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People observe a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m., the moment the earthquake struck with a backdrop of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan as the country marked the 15th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo News via AP)
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[2026-03-11 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-11 19:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Police are investigating whether a bus fire in a town west of the Swiss capital that killed at least six people was started deliberately.
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[2026-03-11 19:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Drop in foreign tourists at Valencia’s Fallas due to Middle East war, three killed in fire in northern Spain, US snubs investment meet in Spain amid Trump-Sánchez clash and more news on Wednesday March 11th.
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[2026-03-11 18:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Fire investigators examine the charred shell of a postal bus that caught fire in Kerzers, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 10, 2026, after several passengers were killed and others injured when a postal bus caught fire late Tuesday afternoon in the center of Kerzers, according to the Fribourg cantonal police. (Alessandro della Valle/Keystone via AP)
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[2026-03-11 18:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz has been struck by an unknown projectile, causing a fire onboard, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said in an update on Wednesday morning.
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[2026-03-11 18:08 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: “What about the victims?” To ask that question, without additional context, is to invite a counter-question: Which victims? The country and the world have a terrible multitude of victims to choose from: victims of cyber-scams, or of the Persian Gulf war, of flood control corruption, of the invasion of Ukraine, or the genocide in Gaza.
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[2026-03-11 17:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Fuertes tormentas que generaron tornados en partes de Illinois e Indiana el martes arrasaron viviendas, derribaron árboles y líneas eléctricas, y saturaron de llamadas un centro de emergencias del 911 al sur de Chicago, según las autoridades.
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[2026-03-11 17:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: At least six people have been killed and others injured after a bus caught fire in a town in western Switzerland, according to police.
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[2026-03-11 16:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A cargo vessel was hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz resulting in a fire onboard, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported.
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[2026-03-11 13:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A large tornado tore through a city just south of Chicago on Tuesday and caused significant damage, according to officials.
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[2026-03-11 13:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: KERZERS, Switzerland (AFP) -- A bus caught fire in western Switzerland Tuesday killing at least six people and injuring five others in what police said may have been a deliberate act.
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[2026-03-11 13:30 UTC+10:00] [Indian Ocean] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: On this day 15 years ago, one of the most powerful earthquakes on record triggered a devastating tsunami in Japan, killing more than 18,000
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[2026-03-11 12:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KANKAKEE COUNTY, Ill. (AP) — A large tornado tore through a city just south of Chicago on Tuesday and caused significant damage, according to officials.
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[2026-03-11 11:53 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Art & design] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Vivid Sydney reaches for both the sky and the horizon this year, debuting a “refreshed” creative direction across Circular Quay, Barangaroo and Darling Harbour which will see the return of its popular aerial drone shows.
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[2026-03-11 11:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Flood levels in Katherine rose back up to moderate levels on Wednesday. (ABC News: Dane Hirst)
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[2026-03-11 11:06 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A buddhist monk jump over burning wood sticks during annual “Hiwatari Matsuri” Fire walking festival at Takaosan Yakuoin Temple on March 08, 2026 in Tokyo, Japan. Led by mountain ascetics chanting esoteric prayers, barefoot worshippers file across the smoking embers to seek protection, long life and relief from misfortune. Credit:Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images
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[2026-03-11 11:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: TAMPA — In endurance, Brian Cashman is peerless.
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[2026-03-11 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Justice] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: The streets of Katherine were inundated by floodwaters over the weekend. Credit: Facebook
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[2026-03-11 10:37 UTC+10:00] [bus] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Police are treating the blaze as man-made and say it could have been set deliberately
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[2026-03-11 10:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Even in retirement, the competitive fire in JJ Redick still burns — which is part of the reason why he wanted to become the Lakers coach.
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[2026-03-11 09:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Firefighters and police officers install barriers to secure the area where a postal bus caught fire in Kerzers, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 10, 2026, after several passengers were killed and others injured when a postal bus caught fire late Tuesday afternoon in the center of Kerzers, according to the Fribourg cantonal police.
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[2026-03-11 08:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines – The tropical depression outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) has developed into a tropical storm with an international name ‘Nuri,’ the state-run weather agency said on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-11 08:51 UTC+10:00] [Switzerland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The blaze happened in Kerzers in Fribourg canton, which is about 12 miles west of Berne
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[2026-03-11 07:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: CORRECTS DATE: FILE - Law enforcement respond to a neighborhood in Flagstaff, Ariz., where police say a man opened fire on officers on Feb. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey, File)
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[2026-03-11 07:37 UTC+10:00] [Australia weather] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Thousands of residents in Queensland regional hub could be isolated for days after Burnett River burst its banks
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[2026-03-11 07:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A dim-witted anti-ICE protester accidentally set himself ablaze while torching an American flag outside a Portland immigration facility during a weekend demonstration, according to wild footage.
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[2026-03-11 07:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A person walks on the beach next to homes damaged by the Palisades Fire, Jan. 16, 2025, in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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[2026-03-11 06:54 UTC+10:00] [Alabama] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Kay Ivey commutes sentence of Charles ‘Sonny’ Burton, saying death penalty would be unfair as he did not fire the fatal shot
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[2026-03-11 06:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Bundaberg has arleady seen its highest flood level in more than a decade. (Supplied: Brock Catasti from Ray White Bundaberg.)
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[2026-03-11 06:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California Gov. Gavin Newsom quietly paid a visit to the Palisades last week to discuss federal funding for rebuilding the fire-ravaged community — as he continues to bicker with President Trump over disaster aid and is in the midst of a national book tour widely viewed as a pre-presidential campaign.
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[2026-03-11 06:15 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-11 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — A massive fire broke out Tuesday morning on a barge carrying huge piles of scrap metal on the Delaware Bay.
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[2026-03-11 04:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW CASTLE, Delaware — A massive fire broke out Tuesday morning on a barge carrying huge piles of scrap metal on the Delaware Bay.
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[2026-03-11 04:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An active shooter has opened fire close to a synagogue in Baltimore, Maryland, wounding multiple police officers.
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[2026-03-11 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A massive fire broke out Tuesday morning on a barge carrying huge piles of scrap metal on the Delaware Bay.
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[2026-03-11 04:03 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-11 02:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: California Gold Marketing Group’s Dwight Manley examines a gold coin, recovered from the S.S. Central America steamship that went down in a hurricane in 1857, in a laboratory, Jan. 23, 2018, in Santa Ana, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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[2026-03-11 02:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The severe weather in the Central U.S. is not letting up. The Heartland is bracing for another deadly round of storms, with possible EF-2+ tornadoes looming on Tuesday, just days after last week’s deadly outbreak.
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[2026-03-11 01:13 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenTehran, Iran Smoke plumes billow from the site of airstrikes near the Azadi Tower amid the US-Israel war on IranPhotograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenManama, Bahrain A building damaged in a reported Iranian drone strikePhotograph: ReutersShareView image in fullscreenTehran, Iran A woman prays as she sits beside the grave of a relative who was killed in the US-Israel war on Iran, at Behesht-e Zahra cemeteryPhotograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenAbbasiyeh, Lebanon An Israeli airstrike hits the
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[2026-03-11 00:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By RT newsroom, a team of multi-lingual journalists with over a decade of experience in Russian and international reporting, delivering original research and insights often missing from mainstream coverage
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[2026-03-11 00:10 UTC+10:00] [scmp] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Charity says it has ended donation drive and vows no more than 5 per cent of funds will go towards administrative fees
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[2026-03-10 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ali Larijani, the head of the Iranian National Security Council, has issued a strong warning to Donald Trump, after the US president threatened “death, fire and fury” on Iran.
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[2026-03-10 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A drone attack caused set ablaze an industrial zone in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, UAE authorities said.
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[2026-03-10 21:57 UTC+10:00] [dogs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Toru Akama, 63, has helped over a thousand animals, starting with dozens of dogs left behind after the 2011 earthquake-caused catastrophe
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[2026-03-10 21:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: “The Iced VoVo mechanic (C8) doesn’t annoy me as much as the Old Gold TV commercial, inferring that an English chocolate company invented MacRobertson’s Old Gold chocolate,” protests Geoff Carey of Pagewood. “On a side note, back in the ’60s, MacRobertson’s had a fire in their Chippendale warehouse. Granny may remember smelling the burnt chocolate in the air from her old Broadway office for days.
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[2026-03-10 19:00 UTC+10:00] [NBA] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Logical situation of losing to get a better pick has led to big fines but June’s superstar draft created a ‘perfect storm’
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[2026-03-10 16:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Bundaberg residents have been told to evacuate their homes. (ABC News: Lucy Loram)
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[2026-03-10 16:25 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Will Australians spend over $100,000 on a Chinese car?
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