Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-06-26 06:41 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Nine says in a statement it was ‘no longer possible’ for Stefanovic to host Today. Follow today’s news live
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[2026-06-26 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The city of Chicago, long run by Democrats, has an infamous black crime problem. Over the course of Father's Day weekend around 47 people were shot and 8 people killed, with a 105% increase in violent crime compared to 2025. On "Juneteenth", a drive-by mass shooting in Princeton Park injured at least 12–14 people with over 100 shell casings recovered.
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[2026-06-26 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; UPDATES throughout with press release) By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-06-26 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chair of Poland’s opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, has announced that he will relinquish a Ukrainian state award. Relations between Warsaw and Kiev have been on the rocks since Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree last month granting a special operations unit the honorary title “Heroes of the UPA.”
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[2026-06-26 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Mayor Oh Se-hoon’s surprising election victory on June 3 stirred a wave of commentary on the rise of conservatism in Seoul. Most pundits agreed that interest in real estate redevelopment, particularly in the upscale Gangnam area, was the primary factor behind Oh’s victory. The Democratic Party of Korea improved its performance over 2022 in elections for the city council, district mayors and district councils.
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[2026-06-26 06:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose to a new three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, a sign rising costs could pose political problems for President Donald Trump and his political party as midterm elections near.
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[2026-06-26 06:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-06-26 06:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, June 25 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. lawmaker has reintroduced a Senate bill to reauthorize the 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act aimed at promoting rights and freedom in the reclusive state, Congress' website showed Thursday, as the act expired in 2022.
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[2026-06-26 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A row has broken out between Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over the future of the Immigration Minister Mike Tapp.
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[2026-06-26 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Mike Huckabee flew to Washington to take part in very sensitive negotiations concerning Lebanon. He arrived to find that The Daily Caller, founded by Tucker Carlson, had published an article entitled "Foreign Policy Experts Diagnose Mike Huckabee with a Bad Case of Localitis," calling for him to be fired.
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[2026-06-26 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be working over the weekend to influence Likud lawmakers ahead of a Sunday vote, as part of an effort to secure control over at least the first six reserved spots on the party’s Knesset list ahead of the upcoming elections, Likud MK Amit Halevi told The Jerusalem Post in a Thursday interview.
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[2026-06-26 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Marathon meetings in the Knesset House Committee were scheduled for Thursday next week as the coalition moves to advance at a rapid pace the controversial Basic Law: Torah Study bill pushed by haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties.
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[2026-06-26 05:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Fri 26 Jun 2026 at 5:36am
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[2026-06-26 05:35 UTC+10:00] [Shabana Mahmood] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Mike Tapp wrote unauthorised article saying new settlement rules should not cover overseas care workers
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[2026-06-26 05:31 UTC+10:00] [Robert F Kennedy Jr] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Kennedy repeatedly said 2019 Samoa trip had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’. An email from his then colleague says they were on a vaccine-related ‘mission’
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[2026-06-26 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Chief Commissioner Mike Bush is calling for the introduction of graduated mandatory sentencing for serious crime to send a stronger message to criminals, particularly younger offenders, that their actions would have serious consequences.
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[2026-06-26 05:29 UTC+10:00] [Conflict] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: ANTIBES, France — Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday accused NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte of giving a muddled account when he described her country as offering "massive" support to U.S.-Israeli attacks against Iran.
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[2026-06-26 05:25 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Amid a cost-of-living crisis and a period of widespread dissatisfaction with Coles and Woolworths late last year, Treasurer Jim Chalmers declared the government would take a big stick to the big supermarkets.
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[2026-06-26 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Thursday that inflation is still trending the wrong way though there has been a few bright spots.
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[2026-06-26 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: June 26, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-06-26 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: One Nation’s rise in the polls has delivered party leader Pauline Hanson a massive public profile. Now, more than 18 months out from the next federal election, some of the nation’s corporates have started wondering whether they need to start building relationships with her populist right-wing party.
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[2026-06-26 04:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Kenyan police have dispersed protesters in the capital and detained others who took to the streets in memory of the demonstrators who were killed in anti-government rallies against tax rises two years ago.
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[2026-06-26 04:45 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Parents will pay more for childcare after the government increased the cap on fees under its $3.6 billion deal to keep propping up worker salaries.
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[2026-06-26 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org,
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[2026-06-26 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE Department of Education (DepEd) is strengthening learning standards in basic education through its newly released assessment and grading policy, which begins the transition toward a more transparent, evidence-based, and standards-aligned grading system.
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[2026-06-26 04:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Police in Kenya said they detained hundreds of people and fired tear gas on Thursday as families of those killed in anti-government protests two years ago marched to the Parliament building to demand compensation and justice.
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[2026-06-26 04:14 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Federal whistleblowers who report suspected corruption are being left in a state of uncertainty and psychological distress because of delays and poor communication from the National Anti-Corruption Commission, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
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[2026-06-26 04:11 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Just over a year after Romania’s moderate President Nicușor Dan won power in a tense showdown with the far right, he is facing his most serious test yet — trying to broker a deal between rival parties to form a stable government.
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[2026-06-26 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned allies last month there would be no more "free rides" on the American taxpayer. Observers say deterring China may depend as much on allied cooperation and military interoperability as defense budgets. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Xinhua/AP and Reuters)
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[2026-06-26 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Nearly six in ten Poles now oppose Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, up from four in ten a year ago, according to two IBRiS opinion polls cited by Polish media.
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[2026-06-26 03:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Canada, Thursday, June 25, 2026. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-06-26 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Montreal Victoire captain Marie-Philip Poulin presents Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney with a custom Victoire jersey, as the team brings the Walter Cup PWHL championship trophy to his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
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[2026-06-26 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has vowed to use to the fullest its power and constitutional duty to enforce and administer election laws to ensure that the upcoming first-ever Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) parliamentary elections will be clean, honest and peaceful.
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[2026-06-26 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-06-26 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Via American Greatness,
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[2026-06-26 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Police Internal Investigations Department (Mahash) has questioned an officer involved with the Haredi protests held on Geha Highway last week, upon suspicion that the officer assaulted a protester, the Israel Police announced Thursday.
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[2026-06-26 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced heckling from the audience during his speech at Bahad 1's combat officer graduation ceremony on Thursday.
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[2026-06-26 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday committed Israel to becoming the leading global player in space-attack capabilities.
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[2026-06-26 03:03 UTC+10:00] [US politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Top Democrat signals party will not back paying for unpopular conflict never authorized by Congress
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[2026-06-26 02:58 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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[2026-06-26 02:58 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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[2026-06-26 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a major reform that would reshape the policing structure of the conflict-racked nation.
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[2026-06-26 02:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Denmark is considering a nationwide ban on the Islamic call to prayer. Immigration Minister Morten Bodskov has said it has “no place” in the country. The move comes amid a Danish government crackdown on “Islamization.”
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[2026-06-26 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The Bank of Japan will continue tapering its Japanese government bond purchases through April 2027. (Photo by Nanami Sato)
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[2026-06-26 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has vowed to do “everything” possible to ensure his country does not take part in the latest NATO-backed initiative to finance arms for Ukraine.
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[2026-06-26 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-06-26 02:40 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-06-26 02:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The speaker of Iran's parliament on Thursday called into question U.S. claims that the Islamic Republic's unfrozen assets will be used to purchase U.S. agricultural products.
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[2026-06-26 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani says he held a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, in which he denied that Italy had authorised the use of its airbases for US attacks on Iran.
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[2026-06-26 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States Supreme Court has ruled that government officials can turn away asylum seekers at the southern border with Mexico if they have not yet set foot on US soil.
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