Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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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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[2026-05-14 01:54 UTC+10:00] [Immigration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: DUBLIN — Ireland’s former Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has landed his party in electoral hot water by making unguarded anti-immigrant comments on the campaign trail.
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[2026-05-14 01:53 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-05-14 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British Health Secretary Wes Streeting has launched what many MPs are calling a "coup" in a bid to become the Labour prime minister.
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[2026-05-14 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is facing an investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over a $6.7m (5 million pound) gift from a party donor, days after the anti-immigrant party emerged as the biggest winner in local and regional elections.
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[2026-05-14 01:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Gunshots rang out at the Philippine Senate on Wednesday as security forces entered the building where a politician wanted by the International Criminal Court was taking refuge.
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[2026-05-14 01:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth has revealed his ministerial team in Wales' first ever Plaid Cymru government.
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[2026-05-14 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jonathan Turley,
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[2026-05-14 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Kevin Warsh testifica ante la comisión que debate sobre su nominación para dirigir la Reserva Federal de Estados Unidos, en el Congreso en Washington, el 21 de abril del 2026. (AP foto/Jose Luis Magana)
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[2026-05-14 01:23 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Singapore: Gunfire broke out in the Philippines’ Senate on Wednesday, setting off pandemonium in the building and compelling the chamber’s sheltering president to warn people to turn off the lights and stay low.
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[2026-05-14 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: He is in an appeal trial on charges that he sought Libyan financing for his 2007 election
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[2026-05-14 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: He is in an appeal trial on charges that he sought Libyan financing for his 2007 election
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[2026-05-14 01:15 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-05-14 01:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON— Vice President JD Vance is preparing to announce an ultimatum threatening to withhold federal reimbursement of Medicaid expenses to all 50 states if they fail to comply with anti-fraud safeguards.
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[2026-05-14 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A burst of gunfire rang out Wednesday night in the Philippine Senate, where authorities have tried to arrest a senator who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for a charge of crime against humanity, an Associated Press journalist and other witnesses said.
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[2026-05-14 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tens of thousands marched through Brussels on Tuesday to protest Belgian federal reforms, rising military spending, and what demonstrators say are insufficient action on soaring energy prices. The rally comes amid an EU-wide energy crisis and rising defense budgets across the bloc.
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[2026-05-14 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The morning after his Tel Aviv rally, Naftali Bennett went to the Kotel. He had spent the night before on the Expo stage telling the country he meant to remake it: one constitution, one school system, one nation. Hours later, he was at the stones in Jerusalem, surrounded by an entourage the size of a sitting prime minister's.
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[2026-05-14 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Energy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Premier Roger Cook has the prime minister’s implicit support but he’s making it harder for federal Labor to meet its much-vaunted climate targets
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[2026-05-14 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The federal crackdown on California is escalating, with The California Post learning the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding amid mounting concerns over fraud tied to the state’s hospice and home health agencies.
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[2026-05-14 00:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: JAKARTA — Indonesia will review its visa-free entry policy for nationals of Southeast Asian countries after a string of arrests of foreigners accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations, a top immigration official said Wednesday.
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[2026-05-14 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Kevin Warsh testifies during his nomination hearing to be a member and chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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[2026-05-14 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday appealed for calm following the tension that gripped the Senate.
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[2026-05-14 00:48 UTC+10:00] [Coronavirus] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Europe's disease agency chief said EU cooperation on hantavirus had been “very, very strong" after the French Prime Minister called on ministers to work closer together in their response.
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[2026-05-14 00:48 UTC+10:00] [Elections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Wes Streeting looks poised to challenge Keir Starmer’s leadership of Britain’s ruling Labour Party. Now the health secretary’s critics are racing to get an opponent in the game.
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[2026-05-14 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, where he was welcomed by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed before heading into a trilateral meeting at the African Union headquarters with UN Secretary‑General António Guterres and AU Commission chairman Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.
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[2026-05-14 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Wednesday night said authorities still have no knowledge as to who was behind the shooting in the Senate but vows to get to the bottom of the incident.
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[2026-05-14 00:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Nadiem Anwar Makarim, the co-founder of Indonesia’s payments platform and ride hailing company Gojek and former education minister, enters the courtroom for his trial hearing at the Corruption Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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[2026-05-14 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Former taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Bertie Ahern has said he has no issue with people who come to Ireland "through the visa and asylum systems" after facing criticism over comments he made on immigration in a video.
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[2026-05-14 00:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Brazil is a politically divided country, but there’s one thing that those on all sides of the political spectrum love: PIX, the country’s instant payment system that allows users to pay for everything, from ice cream on the beach to clothes in a shopping mall and even a car. Now it faces scrutiny from the U.S.
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[2026-05-14 00:10 UTC+10:00] [Airplanes] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Boris Johnson once said that “when the herd moves, it moves.” Keir Starmer is trying to stop it trampling him alive.
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[2026-05-14 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice on Tuesday canceled Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi’s decision to remove retired judge Nechama Munitz as chairwoman of the search committee for the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation Council, ruling that the decision did not meet the legal threshold for ending her term.
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[2026-05-14 00:01 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Paul Keating has described his most important declaration about the state of the economy as a weighty truth lifted from his shoulders – but it may not have happened but for a woman washing some heavy pots.
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[2026-05-14 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump’s rejection of Tehran’s peace terms suggests that he will accept nothing short of surrender, according to Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi.
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[2026-05-14 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump’s rejection of Tehran’s peace terms suggests that he will accept nothing short of surrender, according to Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi.
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[2026-05-14 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Lineup to include pastor who called Democratic platform ‘demonic’, Christian author who said he would die in fight to overturn 2020 election and rabbi who has defended torture
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[2026-05-13 23:59 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-05-13 23:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Wednesday denied allegations that its agents fired shots inside the Senate complex during a tense lockdown linked to the standoff over Sen. Ronald dela Rosa.
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[2026-05-13 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 13 (Yonhap) -- Foreign Minister Cho Hyun met with top diplomatic envoys from China and Japan to seek closer trilateral cooperation, the ministry said Wednesday.
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[2026-05-13 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Dozens of federal agents descended on the California home of a prominent anti-ICE agitator in a dramatic early morning raid on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-13 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Demonstrators hold placards during a protest outside from the Parliament house in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Thursday, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
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[2026-05-13 23:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. would remain fair and would provide all legal rights and remedies to any Filipino regardless of his political affiliation, Malacañang told Sen. Ronald dela Rosa, following his appeal for protection against an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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[2026-05-13 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump and his Air Force One entourage have arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, greeted by a lavish red carpet welcome. The American president was received by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, China’s ambassador to Washington Xie Feng, Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxuong, and US envoy to Beijing David Perdue.
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