Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-14 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu tapped Esther Shreiber, CEO of the INEXTG Group, to be the next director of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), which would make her the first woman to ever serve in the position.
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[2026-05-14 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Kevin Warsh was confirmed Wednesday as the next Federal Reserve chair, taking over the central bank at a time when President Donald Trump is pushing for lower interest rates even as fresh inflation data complicates the case for cuts.
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[2026-05-14 04:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends an energy investment event in capital city Brasilia on May 8. © Reuters
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[2026-05-14 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Kevin Warsh was confirmed as the next Federal Reserve chairman on Wednesday — even as surging inflation has begun to box the central bank into one of its toughest corners in years.
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[2026-05-14 04:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Philippine Senate was locked down with military personnel seen entering the building where a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) had sought refuge.
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[2026-05-14 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: "Seven months since the ceasefire, the door to Gaza's future is still closed," Nickolay Mladenov, director-general of the Board of Peace, said following his meeting on Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-05-14 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Note to employers: When you discover your twin brother employees are ex-cons who did time for hacking into the US State Department, and go to fire them, make sure you fully disable their access.
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[2026-05-14 04:29 UTC+10:00] [Premier League] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ⚽ Updates from the 8pm BST kick-off at the Etihad ⚽ Scores | Table | Follow us on Bluesky | Mail Michael
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[2026-05-14 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The State Opening of Parliament is the most British of occasions - and today it had the most British of ingredients: royals, regalia and rain.
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[2026-05-14 04:10 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — Spain’s alleged misuse of the EU’s post-Covid funds to pay government pensions is triggering outrage in Germany and the Netherlands and reigniting criticism of joint EU debt.
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[2026-05-14 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony commemorating Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers, or Yom HaZikaron, at the Military Cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Tuesday April 21, 2026. (Ilia Yefimovich/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-05-14 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A disgraced former Brooklyn Supreme Court justice and a shady real estate developer scammed investors in a $6.5 million scheme and pocketed nearly all the cash, federal prosecutors claim.
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[2026-05-14 03:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: At least a dozen gunshots rang out inside the Philippine Senate building in Manila earlier on Wednesday as police and marines moved to arrest Senator Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged crimes against humanity linked to former President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs, a campaign that left more than 6,000 suspected drug dealers dead in operations.
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[2026-05-14 03:54 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: London: Warring factions are set for bruising fight over the Labour leadership after a brief pause to hear King Charles address the British parliament, with the government in disarray and a top minister, Wes Streeting, poised to seek the top job.
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[2026-05-14 03:53 UTC+10:00] [Labour party leadership] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: One of PM’s expanding cohort of critics in Labour party says policy programme ‘sums up where we have gone wrong’
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[2026-05-14 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The beloved former mayor of a conservative Kansas town reported to a federal immigration office Wednesday, a possible step toward deportation, months after acknowledging he had voted in elections despite not being a U.S. citizen.
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[2026-05-14 03:40 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-05-14 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Abdulla bin Touq, Minister of Economy and Tourism, has announced measures to crack down on gold being traded for money laundering and financing terrorism.
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[2026-05-14 03:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-05-14 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: French prosecutors have requested a seven‑year prison sentence for former president Nicolas Sarkozy in his appeal trial over allegations that his 2007 presidential campaign received illegal funding from Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya — a case that has become one of the most explosive political‑financial scandals of France’s Fifth Republic.
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[2026-05-14 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., the ranking member, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, prepare to hear from U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz on his 2027 budget request, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/J.
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[2026-05-14 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: May 14, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-05-14 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: NYU Langone Health has been slapped with a federal grand jury subpoena from the Justice Department, which is attempting to collect information about the extent of the hospital network’s involvement in providing transgender surgeries for minor patients since 2020.
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[2026-05-14 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CANNES, France — The 79th Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with politics, artificial intelligence and the shifting priorities of Hollywood taking center stage at the film gathering on the French Riviera.
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[2026-05-14 03:20 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The critically ill Nobel peace laureate should be released. Iranians’ human rights are under attack from both the regime and the US-Israel war
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[2026-05-14 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United Arab Emirates to meet with President Mohammed bin Zayed at the beginning of Operation Roaring Lion, the Prime Minister's Office announced on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-14 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the appeals courthouse in Paris, France, Monday, March 16, 2026, for his trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
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[2026-05-14 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the UAE during the war on Iran, his office has just announced.
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[2026-05-14 03:11 UTC+10:00] [Courts] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — Russia's parliament approved a bill that allows President Vladimir Putin to order the invasion of foreign countries during a session on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-14 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia has placed British former Defence Minister Ben Wallace on a wanted list in connection with an unspecified criminal investigation, according to the Russian Interior Ministry’s database cited by state media.
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[2026-05-14 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks while visiting Washington in March. Tokyo had scheduled the trip with the timing of the U.S.-China leaders summit, then planned for April, in mind. © Reuters
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[2026-05-14 02:42 UTC+10:00] [King's speech] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: With the PM’s future numbered in days, no wonder Charles might have felt reading out the government’s agenda was not the best use of his time
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[2026-05-14 02:30 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: From the top of Western Australia to the heart of Perth, councils across the state have fallen into disarray, begging the question of how can something so “dysfunctional” be fixed.
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[2026-05-14 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: A SOCO team arrives at the Senate. A PNP officer said they were called to investigate the "crime scene." He did not elaborate.
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[2026-05-14 02:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesday night clarified that the Marines seen inside the Senate were in fact part of the regular security detail following confusions about their presence following the shooting inside the building.
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[2026-05-14 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: "Not in a million years" did Daniel Levy believe Tottenham would be fighting for Premier League survival this season after he stepped down as executive chairman in September.
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[2026-05-14 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: CNN’s top data cruncher Harry Enten delivered a sobering message for Democrats on Tuesday, warning that Republicans remain firmly competitive ahead of the November midterms despite President Trump’s sagging poll numbers and voter frustration over the rising cost of living.
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[2026-05-14 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
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[2026-05-14 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
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[2026-05-14 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: COTABATO CITY — Four political parties participating in the first Parliament election in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have endorsed the candidacy of Chief Minister Abdulraof “Sammy Gambar” Macacua for a district seat in Maguindanao del Norte.
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[2026-05-14 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The CIA whistleblower testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee about COVID origins came forward “at great personal risk” because “the truth was being buried,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday.
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[2026-05-14 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: I DO not like writing about or even spending much time thinking about politics. I do occasionally get into the subject, but usually under circumstances that I regret later: Either I am completely at a loss for a more productive topic and need to come up with something quickly, as happens from time to time here in these pages; or I’ve had an irresponsible number of evening drinks and have lost all inhibition, as happens probably more times than I’d
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[2026-05-14 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seen at the Georgia State Capitol, Dec. 17, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
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[2026-05-14 02:03 UTC+10:00] [Nigel Farage] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Watchdog to examine whether Reform UK leader should have declared sum he received before entering parliament
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[2026-05-14 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Coalition members are trying to rush through bills as quickly as they can, ahead of the threatened dissolution of the Knesset, N12 reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-14 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday again pressed for negotiations toward an agreed resolution in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal trial, saying that Israel’s deepest internal crises should, where possible, be handled through dialogue rather than further rupture.
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[2026-05-14 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW YORK — Call it one of the biggest turnarounds in the United States Federal Reserve’s (Fed) storied history. When Jerome Powell concludes his two-term tenure as Fed chairman on May 15, his legacy is likely to reflect a striking irony: it will have been secured by the man who sought most aggressively to undermine him.
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[2026-05-14 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-14 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-05-14 01:56 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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