Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-03 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks at his Armenia Ruling Civil Contract party headquarters after parliamentary elections in Yerevan, Armenia, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Anthony Pizzoferrato, File)
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[2026-07-03 04:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pakistan’s foreign minister held a phone call on Thursday with his Saudi Arabian counterpart to discuss the ongoing mediation efforts in Qatar between Iran and the US.
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[2026-07-03 04:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Dozens of Haitian medical students marched peacefully from their university to nearby the prime minister’s office in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, where they were stopped by riot police.
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[2026-07-03 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-07-03 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Many tariff reduction pledges made by signatories to RCEP and CPTPP are only gradually coming into effect. (Illustration by Yoshiko Kawano)
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[2026-07-03 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: There is a kind of theft that leaves the safe untouched: you don’t break the lock, you redefine what’s inside it. Yair Golan, the former IDF deputy chief of staff who now leads The Democrats – the merged remnant of Labor and Meretz – has built a political identity on a single freighted word.
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[2026-07-03 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-07-03 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Campaigners and scholars say that recent revelations that the British Museum made false claims about its removal of "Palestine" from its displays raise serious questions regarding the integrity and transparency of its policy and practice.
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[2026-07-03 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Campaigners and scholars say that recent revelations that the British Museum made false claims about its removal of "Palestine" from its displays raise serious questions regarding the integrity and transparency of its policy and practice.
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[2026-07-03 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Just after lunchtime on June 27, 1976, the first report reached the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem: an Air France plane had been hijacked.
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[2026-07-03 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A Guinean appeals court has reduced former Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana's prison sentence for corruption-related offences, paving the way for his release after more than four years in detention as the country's military-led government presses ahead with its anti-graft campaign.
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[2026-07-03 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Douglas DePodesta, special agent in charge of the Chicago Field Office, speaks with reporters at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, Feb. 12, 2025. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)
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[2026-07-03 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: M23 rebels escort government soldiers and police who surrendered to an undisclosed location in Goma, Democratic republic of the Congo, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)
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[2026-07-03 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The culture department has become the second government department to leave the platform
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[2026-07-03 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Voters for Israel’s opposition right-wing and centrist parties are often portrayed as an incoherent coalition united by a single sentiment: opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Anyone but Netanyahu,” the argument goes.
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[2026-07-03 02:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A Kurdish opposition group said on Thursday that six of its fighters were killed in fighting with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps in western Iran near the border with Iraq.
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[2026-07-03 02:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: IDF Brig.-Gen. Shai Taib, head of the military's Planning and Personnel Administration Division, warned the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Thursday that Israel’s regular combat force could face severe strain without urgent manpower legislation.
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[2026-07-03 02:41 UTC+10:00] [Citizenship] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Leader of Spain’s center-right People’s Party Alberto Núñez Feijóo alleged Sánchez aimed to use migrants to expand his voter base following the government’s recent mass migrant legalization effort.
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[2026-07-03 02:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Premier Lacrosse League wants to begin selling its teams to individual owners or groups by 2028 "or soon thereafter," league co-founder Paul Rabil told CNBC.
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[2026-07-03 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A Minnesota pardon board that includes Gov Tim Walz among its three members has issued a full pardon to a convicted Laotian child-molester, torpedoing Homeland Security's effort to deport him. The 42-year-old convict, Tou Lue Vang, submitted a letter to the board saying he regretted what he did -- and just like that, his criminal record is now clean as a whistle via unanimous decision.
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[2026-07-03 02:18 UTC+10:00] [Nigel Farage] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Commissioner asked to investigate Reform UK leader after private meeting with Bank of England governor
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[2026-07-03 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The sole survivor rescued in Venezuela by Tuesday afternoon was a toddler who had been trapped for six days under a collapsed building, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez said.
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[2026-07-03 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE government on Thursday said the country’s reclassification by the World Bank as an upper-middle-income economy would create more jobs, attract investments and expand opportunities for Filipinos, but labor groups challenged it to show that the newly attained status would benefit ordinary Filipinos by supporting higher wages.
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[2026-07-03 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
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[2026-07-03 01:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, has announced the launch of a real-time virtual simulation of the emirate.
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[2026-07-03 01:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Lam, who eventually moved his Causeway Bay Books to Taiwan, was one of five booksellers who disappeared in 2015 and resurfaced across border
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[2026-07-03 01:42 UTC+10:00] [mainland China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Lam, who eventually moved his Causeway Bay Books to Taiwan, was one of five booksellers who disappeared in 2015 and resurfaced across border
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[2026-07-03 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli bill to restrict the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, passed a preliminary reading in parliament on Wednesday.
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[2026-07-03 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) said on Thursday that former coordinator of hostage negotiations Maj.-Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon was responsible for those murdered and kidnapped during the October 7 Hamas massacre.
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[2026-07-03 01:26 UTC+10:00] [US midterm elections 2026] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Abdul El-Sayed, backed by Bernie Sanders, leads polls ahead of Haley Stevens and Mallory McMorrow in primary
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[2026-07-03 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 57,000 in June – well below forecasts – amid rising inflation and wage stagnation
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[2026-07-03 01:22 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 57,000 in June – well below forecasts – amid rising inflation and wage stagnation
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[2026-07-03 01:21 UTC+10:00] [Bridges] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — England is among the last 16 nations left in the World Cup after a tense win over DR Congo, and hope is tentatively starting to spread that this tournament could finally end 60 years of hurt for the nation.
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[2026-07-03 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Kinshasa on Thursday for a high-level African Union solidarity mission aimed at reinforcing continental support for the Democratic Republic of the Congo's response to its latest Ebola outbreak. The visit underscores growing regional efforts to contain the virus, strengthen cross-border preparedness and mobilise political and financial backing for the response.
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[2026-07-03 01:11 UTC+10:00] [Democracy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: TIRANA, Albania — Ongoing protests in Tirana continued to intensify Thursday, with nine police officers injured and 18 protestors arrested after serious clashes outside Parliament.
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[2026-07-03 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli bill to restrict the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, passed a preliminary reading in parliament on Wednesday.
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[2026-07-03 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russians will head to the polls in September to elect a new State Duma and regional officials in a vote that the ruling United Russia party is expected to dominate but which could offer insight into how four years of war in Ukraine have reshaped the country’s political landscape.
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[2026-07-03 01:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has rejected US President Donald Trump’s demand for loyalty from other NATO members, insisting that no member state should impose its will on the others.
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[2026-07-03 01:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a formal apology over the forced adoption of babies born to unmarried British mothers in the decades after World War II, describing the scheme as a “stain on our history”.
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[2026-07-03 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Essential poll] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Poll also finds perception of Donald Trump has soured since his re-election, with fewer than a third of respondents viewing him positively
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[2026-07-03 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The nihilistic accelerationism spreading through the revolutionary left is becoming an increasingly visible security threat, as years of radical rhetoric and political demonization by Democrats and their aligned, billionaire-funded NGOs bleed into real-world violence.
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[2026-07-03 00:58 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry discuss what led to the first drop in One Nation’s poll numbers in more than a year, and why the voters turning away from Pauline Hanson are not turning back towards the Liberal party. They also examine the politics of falling house prices, and why it may end up being a challenge for Labor
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[2026-07-03 00:57 UTC+10:00] [Artificial Intelligence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Der wirtschaftspolitische Podcast von POLITICO Deutschland.
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[2026-07-03 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran was knocked out of the World Cup on Saturday, yet the government’s now calling it a victory.
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[2026-07-03 00:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett warned Thursday that artificial intelligence has become a national-security infrastructure comparable to electricity, saying Israel cannot afford to depend on foreign powers while its international standing deteriorates and Iran continues to recover.
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[2026-07-03 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Spanish government is ordering state-backed companies to cut their ties with US defense contractor Palantir, Spain’s El Confidencial newspaper has reported. The move follows similar bans in France and Germany.
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[2026-07-03 00:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Foto del 10 de mayo del 2026, Mateus Fernandes del West Ham reacciona en el encuentro ante el Arsenal en la Liga Premier. (AP Foto/Ian Walton, Archivo)
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[2026-07-03 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israel on Thursday marked 1,000 days since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attacks – which led to regional wars and have had far-reaching consequences across the Middle East – while the country remains divided over its political future.
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[2026-07-03 00:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A riot police officer uses pepper spray against a protester during clashes at an anti-government rally in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, July 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hameraldi Agolli)
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[2026-07-03 00:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice called on Thursday for a re-election in the state comptroller race.
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