Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-04 11:43 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The national soccer federations of Serbia, Sweden and Wales withdrew their support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino's re-election bid on Monday and England's is expected to do the same.
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[2026-08-04 11:40 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The anxiety is palpable at the Northern Rivers temporary pod villages as eviction day looms.
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[2026-08-04 11:39 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Ceuta, Spain – Spain on Monday insisted its sovereignty over Ceuta was “unquestionable,“ after tens of thousands of migrants irregularly entered the north African territory from Morocco in an unprecedented and deadly surge.
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[2026-08-04 11:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday defended a recently passed legal revision abolishing prosecutors' authority to conduct direct investigations as "the beginning of judicial normalization," signaling his intention to sign the bill into law despite calls from the opposition party to veto it.
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[2026-08-04 11:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan leads a protest in Islamabad on May 26, 2022, after his ouster in a no-confidence motion. © Reuters
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[2026-08-04 11:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung will dispatch special envoys to attend the inauguration of the new Colombian president this week and deliver his commitment to strengthening cooperation with the new Colombian government, Lee's office said Tuesday.
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[2026-08-04 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) posted net income of P94.75 billion in the first half (H1) of 2026, up 27.78 percent from P74.2 billion in the same period last year.
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[2026-08-04 10:59 UTC+10:00] [Japan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prime minister Sanae Takaichi visited Kumamoto prefecture almost a week after a magnitude 7.1 quake hit, killing 38 people
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[2026-08-04 10:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-08-04 10:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Likud Court overturned overnight one of the central and most dramatic decisions adopted by the Likud convention last week, ruling that current and former lawmakers, ministers, and deputy ministers will not be permitted to run in regional slots in the primaries.
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[2026-08-04 10:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Americans picked Democrats over Republicans as better stewards of the economy for the first time in nearly a decade in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, which also found their approval of President Donald Trump's performance falling to 35%.
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[2026-08-04 10:33 UTC+10:00] [Newsbreak] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines – Commercial fishing operators clinched a legal victory after the Supreme Court affirmed the 2021 decision of the Malabon Regional Trial Court Branch 170. It ruled that the government’s policy of monitoring Philippine-flagged commercial fishing vessels at sea is unconstitutional.
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[2026-08-04 10:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Todd Blanche appeared on track Monday to become the next US attorney general after two Republican senators dropped their opposition to his nomination.
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[2026-08-04 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Hollywood pulled out all the stops for "The Odyssey" - They relied heavily on director Christopher Nolan's built-in and generally pretentious audience to drive early box office revenues.
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[2026-08-04 10:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Esmaeil Baghaei, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said on Monday that there are no negotiations ongoing between Tehran and Washington, nor any plans for meetings, as the talks over the management of the Hormuz Strait remain mediated by Oman.
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[2026-08-04 09:59 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was damaged by vandals – even after his government admitted that it’s not true – as he accused his hand-picked prosecutor of “choking” in court.
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[2026-08-04 09:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Local Government
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[2026-08-04 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: There is a particular cruelty in the timing. When the Kospi began its final, cratering descent in late July, President Lee Jae Myung was roughly 11,000 miles away, midway through an 11-day diplomatic tour of South America, watching from hotel suites as the index he had made the totem of his presidency collapsed.
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[2026-08-04 09:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:State and Territory Parliament
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[2026-08-04 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-04 09:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The Venezuelan government has announced that the confirmed death toll from a pair of heavy earthquakes that struck the country in June has risen to 6,125 people.
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[2026-08-04 09:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Tuesday rejected a recent joint alert issued by South Korea, the United States, Japan and others about its information technology (IT) workers and cyberactivity as "false information" driven by political motives.
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[2026-08-04 09:09 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Shares soar as yearly revenue up 93%, even as opposition grows to company’s role in Trump immigration agenda
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[2026-08-04 09:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli political leaders have mocked and exploited the migration crisis engulfing Morocco, an Israeli ally, and Spain, whose relations with Israel have sharply deteriorated.
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[2026-08-04 09:02 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-08-04 08:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Head of Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organization Ibrahim Kalin met a Hamas delegation led by its new political bureau chief Khalil al-Hayya in Istanbul, according to a statement released by Hamas on Monday.
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[2026-08-04 08:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Federal Reserve may soon be drawn into the Trump administration's efforts to back the embattled currency of U.S. ally Japan.
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[2026-08-04 08:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Meta, Anthropic among companies to review voluntary framework on Tuesday as US government seeks early access to most advanced AI models
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[2026-08-04 08:25 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Meta, Anthropic among companies to review voluntary framework on Tuesday as US government seeks early access to most advanced AI models
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[2026-08-04 08:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-04 08:12 UTC+10:00] [ASIA PACIFIC] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Most Indians are unhappy with Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s government over its handling of exam scandals that touched off student protests across the country, a national poll by one of the country’s largest pollsters found.
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[2026-08-04 08:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The bank’s disclosure is tied to a lawsuit against Capital One alleging that it illegally closed Trump’s accounts for political reasons
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[2026-08-04 08:03 UTC+10:00] [Operation Choke Point] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The bank’s disclosure is tied to a lawsuit against Capital One alleging that it illegally closed Trump’s accounts for political reasons
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[2026-08-04 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In a development that will stun absolutely no one, the California Democratic Party's roughly 380-member executive board gathered at a waterside Sheraton in San Diego this weekend and voted to endorse Proposition 40 - a "one-time" 5% levy on the net worth of the state's roughly 200 billionaires - clearing the 60% supermajority required for the party's official blessing, three months before voters render judgment on November 3.
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[2026-08-04 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Defense Minister Israel Katz emphasized that IDF Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth has not been dismissed and is performing well in his role in the military, during a meeting with heads of the local authorities from the West Bank on Monday.
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[2026-08-04 07:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-08-04 07:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Livestock Farming
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[2026-08-04 07:34 UTC+10:00] [Trump tariffs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Coalition of 25 states asks US Court of International Trade to halt tariffs and declare them them unlawful
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[2026-08-04 07:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-04 07:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: So far, in Zohran Mamdani's socialist utopia in New York City, it can take multiple forms of identification to shovel snow and, if his proposal is implemented, potentially to shop at government-run grocery stores.
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[2026-08-04 07:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:State and Territory Government
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[2026-08-04 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, United States — The White House will host a meeting Tuesday with AI executives to discuss a new voluntary system of government review of the technology's most powerful models, an administration official said.
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[2026-08-04 07:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-08-04 06:45 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Published 4 August 2026 6:45am
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[2026-08-04 06:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-08-04 06:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: As food prices rise, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party plans to provide temporary relief with a consumption tax cut. © Kyodo
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[2026-08-04 06:38 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Two men were arrested on Monday evening and one was charged over an alleged replica pistol. Follow today’s news live.
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[2026-08-04 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
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[2026-08-04 06:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Erwin Tulfo on Monday sought the Senate's concurrence in twin measures ratifying the Philippines’ Status of Visiting Forces Agreements (SOVFAs) with Canada and New Zealand.
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[2026-08-04 06:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:State and Territory Government
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