Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-12 18:20 UTC+10:00] [Philippines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Former police chief Ronald dela Rosa spends night at senate office after another Duterte ally offers protective custody
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[2026-05-12 18:15 UTC+10:00] [New South Wales politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Parliamentary committee into 2023 electorate funding allocation program finds MP John Graham misled parliament
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[2026-05-12 18:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The establishment media has been drumming up fear after a recent outbreak of Hantavirus on a cruise liner traveling from Argentina to West Africa. The Guardian has used the opportunity to assert that the US is currently ill equipped to deal with future pandemic threats, largely because of Donald Trump (of course) and the dramatic US exit from the now disgraced World Health Organization.
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[2026-05-12 18:11 UTC+10:00] [Keir Starmer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As senior cabinet ministers move against the PM, his words of defiance seem moot. I’m planning ahead – which is more than he ever did
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[2026-05-12 18:06 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Some bakeries in Gwangju are serving up election-themed bread and pastries ahead of South Korea’s June 3 local elections, turning neighborhood bakeries into playful reminders to vote.
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[2026-05-12 18:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Parliament
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[2026-05-12 18:04 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Federal court found miner’s Solomon Hub iron ore mine caused cultural and social harm, including the destruction of 140 heritage sites
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[2026-05-12 18:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The government ‘is supportive of real-world assets … We also anticipate that future investment tokens and tokenised experiences will be settled using stablecoins,’ fintech group firm says
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[2026-05-12 18:00 UTC+10:00] [tokenised gold] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The government ‘is supportive of real-world assets … We also anticipate that future investment tokens and tokenised experiences will be settled using stablecoins,’ fintech group firm says
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[2026-05-12 18:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: ADDS photo, unification minister's comments in last 5 paras)
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[2026-05-12 17:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with sentence recommendation for former defense minister in paras 6-7; ADDS photo)
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[2026-05-12 17:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with details)
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[2026-05-12 17:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Tuesday said there are legal limitations to the grant of Senate protective custody to Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa.
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[2026-05-12 17:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to face his cabinet as more than 80 Labour MPs have called for him to resign, following the party’s devastating local elections losses last week.
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[2026-05-12 17:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Yields on U.K. government bonds surged to multi-decade highs on Tuesday morning, as pressure mounted on Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign from his post.
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[2026-05-12 17:39 UTC+10:00] [British politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s premiership is in grave peril after a key member of his Cabinet told him to set out an exit plan following dire nationwide election results.
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[2026-05-12 17:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership is hanging by a thread as a growing number of his own party's lawmakers call on the Labour Party leader to resign.
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[2026-05-12 17:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The High Court of Justice is set to hear petitions Tuesday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to appoint Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman as the next head of the Mossad, in a case that has placed one of Israel’s most sensitive security appointments under rare judicial scrutiny.
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[2026-05-12 17:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: “We are building the Land of Israel and destroying the idea of a Palestinian state,” said Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Friday. The action that brought on his comments: Israel’s uprooting of 3,000 Palestinian-planted trees in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-05-12 17:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 12 (Yonhap) -- The government aims to foster 500 small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) that can export at least US$10 million worth of goods by 2030, the industry ministry said Tuesday.
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[2026-05-12 17:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
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[2026-05-12 17:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 12 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said Tuesday the government will expand social security expenditures to the levels of advanced nations by 2040 in order to deal actively with demographic and other social changes in South Korea.
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[2026-05-12 17:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with more info in last 2 paras)
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[2026-05-12 17:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham meet with school children at a primary school in Ashton-under-Lyne, north-west England, Monday April 13, 2026. (Paul Ellis/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-05-12 17:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Duterte’s former top enforcer Ronald Dela Rosa has taken refuge in the Philippine Senate to avoid arrest.
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[2026-05-12 17:18 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: More than 1000 days after a landmark parliamentary inquiry into gambling harm called for urgent reform, the Albanese government has responded by unveiling a scaled-back package that has drawn fire from both anti-gambling campaigners and the betting industry.
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[2026-05-12 17:14 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A Federal court judge has awarded the Yindjibarndi people of Western Australia’s Pilbara region around $150 million dollars for cultural loss in their 18-year-long battle for compensation with Andrew Forrest’s mining company Fortescue.
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[2026-05-12 17:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 12 (Yonhap) -- The presidential chief of staff for policy on Tuesday proposed introducing public dividends to distribute the "fruits" from an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven economic boom.
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[2026-05-12 17:07 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Government mediators leave room for further negotiations ahead of planned May 21 strike
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[2026-05-12 17:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Panfilo Lacson said that Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa is now "effectively contained" as he returned to the Senate after over five months of hiding supposedly to evade the arrest order from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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[2026-05-12 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Scotland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: There is optimism even after Nigel Farage’s party swept to victory in many postindustrial areas – as radical progressives won more seats than ever
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[2026-05-12 16:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 12 (Yonhap) -- An appeals court on Tuesday increased former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min's prison sentence to nine years from seven over his role in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed martial law bid.
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[2026-05-12 16:56 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-12 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was once again this year the only EU leader to visit Moscow for Russia's Victory Day commemorative WW2 celebrations on Saturday, which has drawn a predictable and fierce rebuke from Germany and European officials.
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[2026-05-12 16:42 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The 2026-27 state budget has been labelled as reckless by the West Australian opposition, who have claimed it showed inflation was “made in WA” and strategies to address rising living costs were unsophisticated.
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[2026-05-12 16:41 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-12 16:39 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines – All eyes are now on the Senate as lawmakers prepare to tackle the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte.
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[2026-05-12 16:36 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-12 16:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Dams and Reservoirs
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[2026-05-12 16:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Conservative PP on track to win Andalusia elections, 1.8 million more people get private healthcare in Spain, the latest data on Spanish rent increases and more news on Tuesday May 12th.
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[2026-05-12 16:19 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Brazilian activist Thiago Avila returned to Sao Paulo on Monday following his detention and deportation from Israel, where he alleged he was tortured and witnessed abuses of Palestinian prisoners during 10 days in custody. Avila and Spanish national Abu Keshek were part of the second Global Sumud Flotilla that launched from Spain on April 12 attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza by delivering aid.
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[2026-05-12 16:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-05-12 16:10 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-05-12 16:10 UTC+10:00] [Indigenous Australians] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Labor introduced condolence motions in parliament on Tuesday to honour the five-year-old who was allegedly murdered in Alice Springs last month
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[2026-05-12 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Health experts urged the Food and Drug Administration to approve a new dengue vaccine, noting that existing programs to eradicate dengue are no longer effective. At a press conference led by the Empowering Networks to Defeat Dengue (E.N.D. Dengue) Coalition in Quezon City, former Department of Health undersecretary Eric Tayag said that the application for approval of the new dengue vaccine has been pending since 2023.
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[2026-05-12 16:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 12 (Yonhap) -- The government will more than double safety inspections on products imported from overseas directly by consumers in an effort to keep hazardous products from flowing into the country, officials said Tuesday.
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[2026-05-12 16:03 UTC+10:00] [Queensland politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Tuesday’s question time seemed more suited to prime time; full of sordid allegations, only the cast seems far less likable
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[2026-05-12 16:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-05-12 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Treasurer Jim Chalmers will claim that a suite of tax changes covering negative gearing and capital gains tax will help 75,000 young Australians get into the property market.
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[2026-05-12 15:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the ROK–US Combined Forces Command.
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