Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-28 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org,
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[2026-09-28 06:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim sits in the driver’s seat of Perodua's first electric vehicle during the car’s launch event in Kuala Lumpur in late 2025. © Reuters
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[2026-09-28 06:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-09-28 05:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Texas mental health clinic owner was convicted by a federal jury after prosecutors said he orchestrated a $26 million scheme to defraud the military’s health care program, using some of the proceeds to fund luxury purchases, including a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck worth more than $100,000.
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[2026-09-28 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The two big weekend Iran war developments are 1) President Trump has rejected Tehran's seven day ceasefire roadmap proposal, and reportedly plans to resume bombing Iran - likely after the November midterm elections; 2) the Iranian government announced Sunday its forces have struck 19 ships in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two nights, per Fars News Agency.
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[2026-09-28 05:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Sunday that Israel had revoked the credentials of Dutch diplomats in Ramallah in response to the Netherlands’ ban on goods from Israeli settlements.
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[2026-09-28 05:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed, on Sunday morning, N12 initially reported.
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[2026-09-28 05:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Sunday that Israel had revoked the credentials of Dutch diplomats in Ramallah in response to the Netherlands’ ban on goods from Israeli settlements.
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[2026-09-28 05:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Missions Minister Orit Strock wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday demanding an Israeli rejection of a new Board of Peace plan for Gaza, arguing that it contradicts understandings reached with the United States only a month earlier.
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[2026-09-28 05:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic announced his resignation on Sunday, ending his second and final five-year term and paving the way for early presidential elections.
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[2026-09-28 05:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The next government must develop a clear plan for Gaza that does not include reconstruction and instead addresses the ideology that enabled Hamas to attack Israel, Israeli public diplomat Einat Wilf told The Jerusalem Post, laying out her "day after" vision.
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[2026-09-28 05:09 UTC+10:00] [Serbia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Vučić not allowed to seek third presidential term and election will test his grip on rule after widespread protests
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[2026-09-28 05:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Around 150 tents filled the square on Sunday, with families of several generations joining the sit-in. Demonstrators say they will remain there until at least Tuesday, when the Spanish government is due to meet. Banners across the square called for “Affordable housing”, “Right to Housing at a fair price” and “Not one more Maricarmen”, reflecting wider demands for rent freezes, stronger tenant protections and an end to evictions without alternative accommodation.
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[2026-09-28 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A new fight has erupted over the future of Australia’s remaining coal-fired power stations, as renewable energy leaders push for expanded federal pollution laws to prevent fossil fuel generators from delaying their closures.
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[2026-09-28 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Former Aboriginal affairs minister Ken Wyatt says comments by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson about Indigenous people being “primitive” come from ignorance and a refusal to connect with Australia’s First Peoples.
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[2026-09-28 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: An associate of a notorious Islamic preacher linked to the Bondi shooters has called on followers to take up arms against Christians and Jews, putting the spotlight back on radical preachers after the major parties shelved attempts to rein them in.
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[2026-09-28 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-09-28 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Labor has promised to duplicate Melbourne’s least reliable rail line and save taxpayers more than $600 million in major infrastructure works, while further delaying a signature policy of former premier Daniel Andrews.
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[2026-09-28 04:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has effectively abandoned Saudi Arabia, a key ally in the Middle East, leaving it to face “almost a full-blown war” with Yemen’s Houthis, political scientist and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer said in an interview with RT.
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[2026-09-28 04:25 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Across 22 press conferences and 150,000 words, Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has headed a revolution in how interest rates are set in this nation.
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[2026-09-28 04:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar revoked the credentials of all Dutch diplomats operating at the Netherlands Representative Office in Ramallah on Sunday, citing the Netherlands' adoption of anti-Israel policies as the reason for the move.
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[2026-09-28 04:19 UTC+10:00] [Republicans] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Thom Tillis says Trump’s decision to back Paxton over John Cornyn has put the Senate seat at risk for Republicans
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[2026-09-28 04:11 UTC+10:00] [Diesel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LIVERPOOL, England — A potential U.S. ban on diesel exports would be “a significant concern” for the U.K., Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Sunday.
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[2026-09-28 04:00 UTC+10:00] [England] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: I don’t take calls from Premier League managers, he says
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[2026-09-28 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The leaders of the four “change bloc” parties who met at Yair Lapid’s home on Saturday evening reached a non-aggression pact. They did not, however, agree on how to form a government.
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[2026-09-28 03:23 UTC+10:00] [Airports] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LIVERPOOL, England — Andy Burnham must be “selective” in the story he tells when he delivers his first conference speech as prime minister and Labour leader later this week, one of his closest allies said Sunday.
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[2026-09-28 03:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow, which has accused Bern of abandoning its neutrality, praised the initiative that some critics have called ‘pro-Russian’
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[2026-09-28 03:15 UTC+10:00] [Bern] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow, which has accused Bern of abandoning its neutrality, praised the initiative that some critics have called ‘pro-Russian’
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[2026-09-28 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Thousands of people, including public figures, ministers and Knesset members, traveled from Yad Mordechai toward the northern Gaza Strip border area on Sunday, calling for victory and settlement in Gaza.
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[2026-09-28 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DEPUTY Speaker Paolo Ortega V on Sunday said petitions before the Supreme Court challenging the Senate impeachment court’s ruling on the conviction threshold will not derail the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
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[2026-09-28 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE national government sharply reduced its gross borrowings in August, with the amount of funds raised from both domestic and external sources plunging by 72.2 percent to P141.27 billion from P508.53 billion a year earlier
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[2026-09-28 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DEPUTY Speaker Paolo Ortega V on Sunday said petitions before the Supreme Court challenging the Senate impeachment court’s ruling on the conviction threshold will not derail the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
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[2026-09-28 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DAVAO City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte and former senator Antonio Trillanes IV are among the prosecution witnesses expected to testify in the next phase of the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, Senate impeachment court spokesman Reginald Tongol said.
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[2026-09-28 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DAVAO City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte and former senator Antonio Trillanes IV are among the prosecution witnesses expected to testify in the next phase of the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, Senate impeachment court spokesman Reginald Tongol said.
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[2026-09-28 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran was still awaiting an official US response through mediators to its proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days.
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[2026-09-28 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that Iran will remain steadfast "in the face of any aggression, even if it comes to an apocalyptic war", in a social media post
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[2026-09-28 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Ma’aleh Adumim Municipality petitioned the High Court of Justice on Sunday against a legal opinion from the Attorney-General’s Office advising state authorities to postpone a tender for 1,234 homes to be built in the E1 settlement until after the October 27 election.
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[2026-09-28 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The attack against a market at the Mawiya junction in Taiz province on Sunday was carried out by Saudi Arabia and not Yemen's internationally recognized government, according to the Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree, who also warned the strike will have "severe consequences."
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[2026-09-28 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hamas will continue dedicating itself to “resistance” and fully intends to run as part of a coalition in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in November, Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya told Al Araby TV on Saturday.
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[2026-09-28 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SYDNEY, Australia — The CEO's of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to appear at an Australian Senate inquiry on artificial intelligence (AI), the head of the probe said on Sunday, days after the revelation that a rogue OpenAI bot had hacked the country’s health-system database.
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[2026-09-28 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: IN a vexing display of constitutional ignorance and disguised malicious intent (by a few members who initiated the violation), the Senate impeachment court amended the 1987 Constitution, particularly altering the language of the Constitution relative to the constitutional command requiring two-thirds of all 24 senators to convict an impeachable officer in an impeachment proceeding.
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[2026-09-28 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BAGUIO CITY — The city government is bent on maintaining its status as an ISO 9001:2015 passer to ensure its processes and services continue to meet the standards of a Quality Management System (QMS).
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[2026-09-28 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TARLAC — The provincial government of Tarlac has launched an inclusive tourism initiative featuring tactile and interactive 3D-printed models of seven key provincial landmarks for individuals with visual impairments.
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[2026-09-28 01:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Prisoner releases and free elections were two key pledges made to the US by the new administration
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[2026-09-28 01:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Israel to “go to war” in the occupied West Bank, dismantle the Palestinian Authority and carry out military operations there similar to those in Gaza.
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[2026-09-28 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A recurring accusation promoted by the Palestinian Authority is that Israel has pursued a policy of “ethnic cleansing” and/or “genocide” against Palestinians and Israeli Arabs since 1948.
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[2026-09-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Federal cabinet will discuss the OpenAI breach on Monday as the AI giant pauses testing of latest models amid fallout
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[2026-09-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UK
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[2026-09-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: As a child, I learned in synagogue that Israel is the “Holy Land.” Last week, the Central Elections Committee voted to bar all Arab parties, Ra’am and the Joint List, from running in the upcoming elections.
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[2026-09-28 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Fatah's Central Committee agreed to begin a comprehensive Palestinian national dialogue in Egypt with other Palestinian factions on Saturday, according to official statements, as the movement reaffirmed its support for holding elections across the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
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