Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-19 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japan looks to shore up its defense by offering support for startups with technology that has both civilian and defense applications. (Nikkei illustration)
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[2026-05-19 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Opposition leader Yair Lapid vowed on Monday that any Likud MKs who support the contentious haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill due to pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, “will not fall under the radar."
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[2026-05-19 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday said his legal team was looking at three legal options to address the suspension order of the Ombudsman imposed on Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Mao Aplasca.
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[2026-05-19 02:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: From behind bars in Israel, veteran prisoner and “Palestine's Mandela”, Marwan Barghouti, gained the highest number of votes in elections for the ruling Fatah party's central committee.
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[2026-05-19 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump will swear in Kevin Warsh, his hand-picked choice to lead the Federal Reserve, during a ceremony Friday, a White House official told CNBC.
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[2026-05-19 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Beijing on Tuesday for a two-day state visit, accompanied by an entourage of cabinet ministers and the chief executives of Russia’s largest state-owned and private corporations.
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[2026-05-19 02:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: At least four people have been killed during nationwide transport protests in Kenya, the interior minister has confirmed, as anger over rising fuel prices paralysed major cities and exposed deep economic strain.
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[2026-05-19 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, has opened the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte amid political turmoil and deep division.
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[2026-05-19 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: When the former head of the late Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) was let go from his job last fall, he was light on details of the situation. But in a tell-all interview last week, he made some shocking claims.
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[2026-05-19 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, starts a morning run in Manchester, England, Monday, May 18, 2026 whilst Britain’s government is in turmoil, and some see Andy Burnham as the one to save it. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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[2026-05-19 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AT least 20 firms have expressed interest in investing in the first artificial intelligence-native industrial hub in New Clark City, a United States government official said on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MODERN politics is no longer fought only in institutions. It is fought in narratives — crafted, amplified and repeated until they take on a life of their own.
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[2026-05-19 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-19 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-19 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Four English Premier League clubs have treated pro-Palestinian staff and supporters “in ways that may breach the right to freedom of expression and/ or amount to discrimination”, War on Want said on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Croatian president will not approve the proposed ambassador of the State of Israel “due to the policies of the current Israeli government,” the Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia said on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Update (1130ET): The DOJ announces that as a part of the settlement agreement in President Donald Trump v. the IRS, the Attorney General established “The Anti-Weaponization Fund” to provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare.
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[2026-05-19 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A team of Romanian men, acting as proxies for the Iranian government, carried out a knife attack on a journalist working for a Persian-language media organization in London, prosecutors told a British court on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British Muslim civil society groups and politicians have criticised government ministers for not condemning anti-Muslim remarks made at the Unite the Kingdom rally over the weekend, and are calling on the Metropolitan Police to investigate some comments.
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[2026-05-19 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Casas cubiertas de nieve en Nuuk, Groenlandia, el 7 de marzo de 2025. (Foto AP/Evgeniy Maloletka, Archivo)
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[2026-05-19 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE on Monday unveiled plans to train 80,000 workers - from ministers to junior employees - in the use of AI agents under a mission to ensure half of government services are delivered by the emerging technology within two years.
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[2026-05-19 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-05-19 01:06 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
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[2026-05-19 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court last month filed a secret arrest warrant application for Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, sources briefed on the matter told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-05-19 01:00 UTC+10:00] [New South Wales politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Corrections minister ‘didn’t have time to get into student politics’ when young because he was busy working in his parents’ grocery store
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[2026-05-19 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-19 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Houses covered in snow are seen on the coast of a sea inlet of Nuuk, Greenland, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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[2026-05-19 00:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Sir Keir Starmer has repeated his insistence that he will "not walk away" from the job of prime minister despite more than a week of turbulence in his party, which saw five of his ministers resign.
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[2026-05-19 00:56 UTC+10:00] [Football] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Gunners seemingly have the easier end-of-season schedule, but Manchester City are clinging to hope that anything can happen
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[2026-05-19 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, R-Jackson, responds to a question from U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-St. Simons Island, during the Atlanta Press Club’s Republican Loudermilk-Young debate at Georgia Public Broadcasting in Midtown, Atlanta, on Sunday, April 26, 2026. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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[2026-05-19 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Cape Verde is set for a major political transition. The country’s main opposition party, the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde, or PAICV, has won Sunday’s parliamentary elections with 46 percent of the vote, according to provisional results from nearly 98 percent of polling stations.
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[2026-05-19 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Equatorial Guinea’s Foreign Minister Simeon Oyono Esono Angue met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Monday, where the two discussed defence cooperation and Russia’s role in Africa.
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[2026-05-19 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-19 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Here’s a quick quiz question: what country has the fastest-growing economy in the G7? The answer is, the UK.
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[2026-05-18 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: CAIRO (AP) — A Houthi-controlled court in Yemen has sentenced 19 people to death after their conviction for collaborating with the Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting the Iranian-backed rebels for over a decade.
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[2026-05-18 23:23 UTC+10:00] [Brexit] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Wes Streeting has suggested he wants to see the UK ‘back in the EU’ one day – but the bloc might take some convincing
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[2026-05-18 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice on Monday ordered that the classified affidavit submitted by Brig.-Gen. “G” in the petitions against IDF Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman’s appointment as Mossad chief should be transferred, without delay, to the relevant respondents who hold the proper security clearance – in this case, the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-05-18 23:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Russian government has scrapped its first attempt to sell the country’s third-largest gold producer by auction nearly a year after nationalizing the company, the Interfax news agency reported Monday.
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[2026-05-18 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Renewed inflationary pressures in the U.K. since the outbreak of the Iran war have upended monetary policy expectations, with the Bank of England forecast to hold, if not hike, interest rates this year.
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[2026-05-18 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Italian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: ROME — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s party has picked a new fight with an unlikely political target: peacocks.
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[2026-05-18 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Some in Taiwan argue the island’s leader and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party are rolling back decades of rhetoric under US pressure
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[2026-05-18 23:00 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Some in Taiwan argue the island’s leader and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party are rolling back decades of rhetoric under US pressure
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[2026-05-18 22:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The vice-president’s impeachment trial starts amid chaos in the Senate from leadership battles and the fallout from her father’s ICC case
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[2026-05-18 22:51 UTC+10:00] [Senate] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The vice-president’s impeachment trial starts amid chaos in the Senate from leadership battles and the fallout from her father’s ICC case
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[2026-05-18 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates’ withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ did not appear to be a technical move tied only to production quotas. It amounted to an explicit political statement that Abu Dhabi will not stay in a collective framework when it believes the strategic and economic costs outweigh the benefits.
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[2026-05-18 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Violence by hooligan groups, religious factions, political mobs, or any other group is illegal, cannot be excused, and must be condemned and punished under the law. That is a basic norm of any civilized society. It applies whether the perpetrators are politically motivated youth, religious extremists, sports hooligans, or demonstrators.
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[2026-05-18 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s testimony in his criminal trial was canceled again on Monday morning, after the Jerusalem District Court accepted a last-minute request from his defense team citing undisclosed security and diplomatic reasons that prevented him from appearing.
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[2026-05-18 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: IDF Central Command chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth on Monday signed an amendment to the West Bank’s security regulations, allowing the approved death penalty law for terrorists to go into effect.
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[2026-05-18 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Oregon Pioneer statue is seen on top of the Oregon State Capitol building, April 14, 2026, in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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[2026-05-18 22:28 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Complaints poured in on the final day of voter registration for the 2026 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) after some Commission on Elections (Comelec) offices stopped accommodating applicants hours before the official closing time.
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