Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-04 12:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Indian government will sell up to a 6.5% stake in state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India at a 10% discount to its Monday closing price, as it moves to comply with regulatory requirements.
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[2026-08-04 12:13 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: China’s growing military actions are Japan’s top security challenge and “must be addressed through overall national strength and cooperation with allies and like-minded nations,” according to Tokyo’s annual defense report released Tuesday.
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[2026-08-04 12:12 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Deputy Premier Gabrielle Williams will be tasked with striking a pay deal with the state’s teachers and Colin Brooks will control Victoria’s finances as part of Labor’s new-look cabinet.
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[2026-08-04 12:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Recent polling suggests that expectations of a "blue wave" in Congress for the 2026 mid-terms are crumbling fast, and as we examined recently, the Democrats are facing one of the biggest financial shortfalls in DNC history. The organization has around $16 million of cash on hand for campaign operations after debts are counted.
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[2026-08-04 12:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro holds a press conference at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
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[2026-08-04 12:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Working as a morning producer for Detroit’s Local 4 television station, Noelle Gray has had a front-row seat to the flood of political advertising in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.
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[2026-08-04 12:02 UTC+10:00] [British politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Since becoming Britain’s prime minister, Andy Burnham — the Greater Manchester mayor for nine years — has leapt at any chance to promote his old stomping ground.
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[2026-08-04 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Opposition figure calls on DPP administration to protest to Manila over Philippine attempt to chart a boundary around Scarborough Shoal
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[2026-08-04 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Manila] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Opposition figure calls on DPP administration to protest to Manila over Philippine attempt to chart a boundary around Scarborough Shoal
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[2026-08-04 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Asylum] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the prime minister of Greece.
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[2026-08-04 11:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The prosecution panel of the House of Representatives has requested 31 trial days to present witnesses and documentary evidence supporting its allegations that Vice President Sara Duterte misused more than P612.5 million in confidential funds, indicating that the presentation of evidence on the first article of impeachment alone could take more than two months under the Senate impeachment court's current schedule.
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[2026-08-04 11:56 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Rising Liberal star Andrew Hastie says he hopes to receive One Nation preferences at the next election after acknowledging his own “political mortality” – despite previously vowing to never bend the knee to Pauline Hanson.
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[2026-08-04 11:50 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Chapel Street is set for a parking shake-up with council voting to shut more than 350 car spots in the heart of the precinct while extending one-hour free parking near Prahran Market.
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[2026-08-04 11:48 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: 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 11:46 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Board of Peace official overseeing Gaza’s postwar transition met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a statement, in part to discuss a new disarmament deal the board had reached with the militant Hamas group.
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[2026-08-04 11:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
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[2026-08-04 11:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: NEW YORK (AP) — New York can’t ban federal agents from wearing face coverings or require that they wear visible identification, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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[2026-08-04 11:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The US-led Board of Peace has said that an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza will only take place after the disarmament of Hamas is complete, following a meeting between the body’s director, Nickolay Mladenov, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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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] [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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