Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-30 14:21 UTC+10:00] [New Zealand] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Everlee Wihongi, 37, holds a green card but was detained upon her return to Los Angeles due to an issue with a historic conviction for marijuana possession
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[2026-04-30 14:19 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Middle East war has triggered the biggest global energy supply shock on record and will drive a sharp rise in commodity prices, pushing inflation higher and slowing economic growth worldwide, the World Bank has warned.
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[2026-04-30 14:14 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Italy’s Culture Ministry is investigating the organizers of the Venice Biennale, a prestigious art festival, after Russia was allowed to return to the event, Italian media reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-30 14:07 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka and Thailand have taken steps to strengthen cooperation in education and skills development during an official visit by Minister Dr. Upali Pannilage.
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[2026-04-30 14:02 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Eduardo Obiols Sobredo struggles to feed Cubans young and old, a task even harder now because of a U.S. energy blockade that has caused sweeping water and power outages along with severe gas shortages.
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[2026-04-30 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Art] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Once the Madrid museum’s biggest draw, The Year of the Famine in Madrid fell out of favour for political and aesthetic reasons
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[2026-04-30 13:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TORONTO — Canada has been selected as the headquarters for a new, financial institution led by NATO and designed to reduce borrowing costs for members of the alliance, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-30 13:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SAO PAULO — Brazil's Senate dealt a political blow to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday by rejecting his nomination to the Supreme Court, the first in more than 130 years and a sign that the veteran leader is not popular among many important lawmakers as he seeks reelection.
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[2026-04-30 13:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Reps. Mike Lawler and Josh Gottheimer are introducing a new bipartisan House resolution to condemn leftist streamer Hasan Piker and far-right podcaster Candace Owens for spreading antisemitism.
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[2026-04-30 13:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Saw Win Myint, a commander of a military unit under the Karen National Union, the leading political body for the Karen ethnic minority that is part of the resistance against military rule in Myanmar, inspects the damaged armory in the captured army base of Infantry Battalion 275 in Myawaddy township in Kayin state, Myanmar, on April 12, 2024.
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[2026-04-30 13:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Local Government
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[2026-04-30 13:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Consumer Protection
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[2026-04-30 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The US Senate batted down a resolution on Tuesday that would bar President Trump from being able to attack Cuba without first obtaining Congressional approval.
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[2026-04-30 13:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: As Dr. Anthony Fauci’s right-hand man, David Morens, was charged this week with conspiracy and destruction of federal records in the COVID-19 cover-up, another scandal over the vaccine was unfolding on Capitol Hill.
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[2026-04-30 13:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: YouTuber Nick Shirley has linked his latest California fraud investigation to government data he says was obtained with help from Edward Coristine, the former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) engineer better known online by the nickname “Big Balls.”
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[2026-04-30 13:03 UTC+10:00] [Sport / NRL] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: PNG Chiefs officials have revealed a family barbecue in western Sydney and a personal plea from Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape helped them land the historic and prized signature of Jarome Luai.
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[2026-04-30 13:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: President Isaac Herzog has spent recent weeks quietly encouraging the parties involved in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to consider a plea bargain. The Right has called it surrender. The Left has called it a sellout. Both are wrong, and Herzog is doing exactly what a president is supposed to do.
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[2026-04-30 13:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The One Nation leader now has a higher job approval rating than Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor, and for the first time in the Essential poll – the right wing populist party is outperforming the Coalition.
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[2026-04-30 12:47 UTC+10:00] [United States Politics and Government] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: The House on Wednesday narrowly adopted a Republican budget blueprint that would allow the G.O.P. to blow past Democratic opposition and pour an additional $70 billion into immigration enforcement through the remainder of President Trump’s second term.
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[2026-04-30 12:47 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-04-30 12:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea will remove the term “out-of-wedlock child” from government forms used in child welfare administration, as authorities move to update official language in line with changing views on family and childbirth.
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[2026-04-30 12:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made a fervent appeal Wednesday for central bank independence, as he prepares to cap an eight-year term at its helm marked by insults and legal action under the Trump administration.
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[2026-04-30 12:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Philip Nugent, director general for EU, international and marine affairs, from left, Colombia’s Environmental Minister Irene Vélez Torres, Stientje van Veldhoven, minister of climate policy and green growth of the Netherlands, and Maina Talia, minister of home affairs, climate change and environment of Tuvalu, pose at the end of a conference aimed at transitioning away from fossil fuels Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Santa Marta, Colombia.
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[2026-04-30 12:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow, a candidate running for US Senate, deleted thousands of tweets, some of which defended “coastal elites” and were critical of “Middle America,” after The Post first reported on them last year.
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[2026-04-30 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Minnesota couple — including a dad who fancied himself “the voice of a generation” — and their daughter were hit with federal charges for allegedly assaulting a Turning Point USA reporter at an anti-ICE protest earlier this month.
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[2026-04-30 12:22 UTC+10:00] [Luzon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-04-30 12:05 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo held a meeting with Mexico's ambassador to Seoul on Thursday to address concerns over the planned review of a trilateral trade pact between Mexico, the United States and Canada, Yeo's office said.
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[2026-04-30 12:05 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Queensland government has launched Supreme Court action against one of Australia’s biggest companies to recoup almost $66 million it ploughed into a failed green hydrogen plant in Gladstone.
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[2026-04-30 12:02 UTC+10:00] [Russian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: An ally of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is pushing to reintegrate Russia into another iconic Olympic sport, sparking outrage among senior Ukrainian officials as Moscow’s full-scale invasion grinds on.
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[2026-04-30 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The new inter-agency rules aim to give investigators a framework tailored to Pogo-linked crime and support a coordinated response
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[2026-04-30 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Metro Manila] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The new inter-agency rules aim to give investigators a framework tailored to Pogo-linked crime and support a coordinated response
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[2026-04-30 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's tax revenue increased by 5.5 trillion won (US$3.7 billion) from a year earlier in March, driven by increases in income tax collections, government data showed Thursday.
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[2026-04-30 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korean Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo held a meeting with Mexico's ambassador to Seoul on Thursday to address concerns over the planned review of a trilateral trade pact between Mexico, the United States and Canada, Yeo's office said.
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[2026-04-30 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Austerity] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Romania is undergoing a fresh bout of political turmoil that could have far-reaching consequences for the EU’s sixth-most populous country.
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[2026-04-30 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Cities] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: GENOA, Italy — Italy’s fragmented left has found a new figurehead, and she’s rapidly turning into a potential challenger to right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
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[2026-04-30 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: For someone who literally wrote the book on the state-sponsored surveillance of citizens, Anna Funder is surprisingly optimistic about the perils of artificial intelligence.
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[2026-04-30 11:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Authorities arrested three foreigners in Pampanga for their suspected involvement in online scamming and money laundering, as part of the government’s intensified crackdown on transnational crimes.
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[2026-04-30 11:47 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth noted the Albanese government’s commitment to boost military spending but indicated there was still more to do before Australia would be considered a “model ally” in the Indo-Pacific.
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[2026-04-30 11:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Uncertainty over the future path of US monetary policy under the next Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, has increased further amid rising oil prices and inflation, the Bank of Korea said Thursday.
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[2026-04-30 11:45 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said Thursday that financial institutions have sufficient capacity to withstand crisis scenarios despite volatility in financial and foreign exchange markets.
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[2026-04-30 11:45 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Soccer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Football Australia has less than two months to pass a key governance reform or risk losing recognition as a national sporting body by the Australian Sports Commission - and the millions in high-performance funding that comes with it.
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[2026-04-30 11:42 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Mark Latham vilified fellow NSW MP Alex Greenwich based on his sexuality and must pay $100,000 in compensation, a Sydney tribunal has ordered.
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[2026-04-30 11:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said Thursday that financial institutions have sufficient capacity to withstand crisis scenarios despite volatility in financial and foreign exchange markets.
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[2026-04-30 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The ‘small government’ era is over. Hong Kong must proactively serve as a super value-adder connecting China and the world
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[2026-04-30 11:30 UTC+10:00] [yuan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The ‘small government’ era is over. Hong Kong must proactively serve as a super value-adder connecting China and the world
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[2026-04-30 11:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) -- Uncertainty over the future path of U.S. monetary policy under the next Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, has increased further amid rising oil prices and inflation, the Bank of Korea said Thursday.
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[2026-04-30 11:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has summoned a bus operator and its driver for allegedly failing to provide mandated fare discounts under the government’s service contracting program.
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[2026-04-30 11:25 UTC+10:00] [Jim Chalmers] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Treasurer tells Commonwealth Bank podcast that he aims to ‘recognise the decisions that people have taken in the past’
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[2026-04-30 11:22 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell closed out eight years as head of the US central bank on Wednesday with interest rates on hold, rising concern about inflation, and an announcement that he would stay on as a Fed governor for now to defend the agency's independence from Trump administration "battering."
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[2026-04-30 11:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Canada is losing its collective mind. During a recent debate in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, Education Minister Brendan Maguire (Progressive Conservative MLA for Halifax Atlantic) responded angrily to concerns about school policies on gender transitioning (without parental notification in many cases) and provincial funding for gender-related medical interventions for minors.
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