Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-16 07:06 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — A gun ban is in effect starting today throughout the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), marking the official start of the election period for the historic regional polls where some 2.3 million voters will finally elect 80 members of the Bangsamoro parliament on Sept.
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[2026-07-16 07:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US Vice President JD Vance downplayed Israel's alleged political influence on US policies in the Iran war while talking to Joe Rogan on the latter's podcast, broadcast on Wednesday.
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[2026-07-16 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Defense team on Wednesday said that it is up to the Senate impeachment court to determine whether Vice President Sara Duterte violated the sub judice rule after she issued a statement on the fifth day of the impeachment trial.
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[2026-07-16 06:52 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-07-16 06:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has rejected a claim from the head of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that there is a deadly connection between her government and the country’s influential criminal cartels.
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[2026-07-16 06:47 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mykhailo Fedorov, credited with transforming the ministry, ousted in reshuffle after six months in post
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[2026-07-16 06:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: While the FIFA World Cup provided a tourism boost to host cities, its positive impact was mitigated by economic weakness seen elsewhere, according to a Federal Reserve report released Wednesday.
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[2026-07-16 06:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former cargo ship captain John Merrone is wheeled out of federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York by his lawyer, Bruce Barket, Wednesday, July 15, 2026, after pleading guilty to charges he drugged and sexually assaulted a U.S. Merchant Marine Academy cadet in 2019 while she was working on the vessel.
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[2026-07-16 06:37 UTC+10:00] [Drones] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — Mykhailo Fedorov, credited with bringing a technology overhaul to Ukraine's military but also clashing with top generals, is out as the country's defense minister in a government reshuffle launched by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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[2026-07-16 06:29 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Comedian backs LGBTQ+ theatre in ‘David v Goliath’ fight. Follow today’s news live
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[2026-07-16 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Eric Utter via American Thinker,
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[2026-07-16 05:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: French lawmakers have adopted a bill that will create a legal right to assisted dying for adults with incurable illnesses, following an intense ethical and political debate.
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[2026-07-16 05:58 UTC+10:00] [Malta] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Former economy minister Chris Cardona and ex-chief of staff Keith Schembri named as being involved in 2017 murder of journalist
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[2026-07-16 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-07-16 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Advocates for Palestinian rights in the US filed a lawsuit in a New York City federal court on Wednesday, seeking an injunction to stop the Trump administration's enforcement of sanctions against groups or individuals liaising with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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[2026-07-16 05:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The movement to liberate Americans from changing their clocks twice a year cleared a key hurdle on Tuesday, as the US House of Representatives advanced the Sunshine Protection Act by a lopsided 318-117 margin. While many Americans would like to stop the spring and fall time changes, not all of them are on board with the Sunshine Protection Act's specific approach, would would make daylight saving time permanent.
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[2026-07-16 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-16 05:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting an international summit in Washington on Thursday that aims to address the threat of "far-left political terrorism".
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[2026-07-16 05:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: MK Dan Illouz announced that he will not run for reelection with Likud in the upcoming election in a video statement released on X/Twitter on Wednesday.
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[2026-07-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-07-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: July 16, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-07-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: July 16, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-07-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Warning: photo within story contains antisemitic imagery
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[2026-07-16 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Queensland’s leading figure on domestic violence reform says the government seems to have ditched key recommendations from her work, as the alleged murder of a mother heaped pressure on the LNP over its funding priorities.
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[2026-07-16 04:52 UTC+10:00] [Shabana Mahmood] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The home secretary is the frontrunner for the role ahead of ‘risky’ Ed Miliband, according to senior Labour figures
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[2026-07-16 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente de la Reserva Federal de Estados Unidos, Kevin Warsh, comparece ante el Comité de Servicios Financieros de la Cámara de Representantes, en el Capitolio, el martes 14 de julio de 2026, en Washington. (AP Foto/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-07-16 04:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Employers will have to publish salary information in job adverts under government plans to rewrite anti-discrimination laws.
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[2026-07-16 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should keep relying on traffic stops as a major enforcement tool, defending the practice after a string of deadly encounters involving immigration officers, including a recent fatal shooting of a Colombian illegal immigrant in Maine.
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[2026-07-16 04:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump meets with Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-07-16 04:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-07-16 04:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the United States intelligence community has maintained he is not an “election denier”.
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[2026-07-16 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In a modest support of the Fed's recent hawkish pivot, the latest Beige Book released today notes that economic activity across the US improved moderately, increasing at a slight to moderate pace in eleven of twelve Federal Reserve Districts in late May and June, while one District (San Francisco) reported no change.
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[2026-07-16 04:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A prominent Moroccan journalist and government critic has been released from police custody three days after his arrest over defamation charges, the public prosecutor has said.
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[2026-07-16 04:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye refused to accept the lawyers being forced upon him for his treason trial on Wednesday after his chosen advocates were arrested or barred from the country.
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[2026-07-16 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Access will be restricted to adults with incurable life-threatening illnesses who are in constant suffering linked to the condition
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[2026-07-16 04:05 UTC+10:00] [Constitutional Council] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Access will be restricted to adults with incurable life-threatening illnesses who are in constant suffering linked to the condition
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[2026-07-16 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Knesset plenum passed into law on Wednesday the contentious bill that seeks to significantly weaken the attorney-general’s power to influence and oversee the government.
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[2026-07-16 04:00 UTC+10:00] [Assisted dying] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — French lawmakers voted on Wednesday to legalize assisted dying for terminally ill patients, bringing to an end a fraught, months-long process that sowed deep divisions within every political camp.
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[2026-07-16 03:55 UTC+10:00] [Democracy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote.
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[2026-07-16 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Zambia's former vice president Guy Scott, who briefly became Africa's only white head of state since the end of apartheid, died on Wednesday at the age of 82, the government said.
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[2026-07-16 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar decided to appoint Knesset Deputy Speaker MK Michel Buskila (New Hope-United Right) as Deputy Foreign Minister on Wednesday, with the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-07-16 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Former deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskel announced on Wednesday that she is launching a new right-wing political party called Israel First.
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[2026-07-16 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The UK is actively working on a comprehensive plan to ban all import and export transactions of goods and services with “illegal” Israeli settlements, Minister for Trade Chris Bryant announced on Wednesday.
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[2026-07-16 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief David Zini has accepted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request to grant Sara Netanyahu lifelong security, Ynet reported on Wednesday evening.
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[2026-07-16 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday the CEO of state energy firm Naftogaz was "best prepared" to become Ukraine's next prime minister following a government reshuffle last week.
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[2026-07-16 03:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US and Iraqi officials are set to conclude a major energy deal as part of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s visit to Washington this week, according to Iraqi officials cited by AP Wednesday.
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[2026-07-16 03:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh appears before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-07-16 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Andy Burnham has not ruled out a wealth tax, suggesting his incoming government may have "to ask for a little more" tax at some point.
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[2026-07-16 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Polls suggest support for a change to the law, but there is considerable opposition politically - with some, as pictured here, saying it positions those eligible as a "burden"
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[2026-07-16 03:22 UTC+10:00] [Keir Starmer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The outgoing prime minister was on good form during his sometimes emotional last PMQs. But Labour MPs were right that change was needed
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