Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-27 06:24 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: New tidal baths on banks of Callan Park in Lilyfield expected to attract thousands to Parramatta River’s southern banks. Follow the day’s news
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[2026-07-27 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The NSW Liberals received a donation from an anti-abortion activist who was accused of “brazen bullying” and attempting the “Americanisation of NSW politics” by former party leader Mark Speakman.
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[2026-07-27 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett has replaced the suits and button-down shirts he wore in recent months with jeans and T-shirts as his campaign seeks to present him as younger, more accessible and energetic ahead of Israel’s October election.
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[2026-07-27 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The WNBA only has two real stars with any meaningful popular following - Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham. Both of them built reputations as underdogs in a sport traditionally dominated by minority players espousing far-left politics. Both of them have been mistreated in the past by a league that tends to play nursemaid to those same players.
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[2026-07-27 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Domestic Violence
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[2026-07-27 05:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will speak at the United Nations in New York City, defying an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant and comments from Mayor Zohran Mamdani that he is not welcome in the city.
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[2026-07-27 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
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[2026-07-27 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mon 27 Jul 2026 at 5:07am
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[2026-07-27 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Finance Minister and Religious Zionist Party leader Bezalel Smotrich urged new immigrants to back his party in Israel's upcoming election, telling The Jerusalem Post that RZP had championed many measures to help olim settle in Israel.
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[2026-07-27 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-07-27 04:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This photo released by Hong Kong’s former pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai show’s himself posing for a portrait in London, Saturday, July 25, 2026. (Wu Chi-wai via AP)
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[2026-07-27 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A group of 80 UK MPs and peers has written to the new British prime minister asking him to impose sanctions on Israel, including a full arms embargo and a ban on trade that supports Israel’s settlements.
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[2026-07-27 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: 1. Mathieu van der Poel, Netherlands, Alpecin-Premier Tech, 1:58:49.
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[2026-07-27 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani discussed bilateral ties and regional developments by phone with UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-07-27 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he plans to attend the UN General Assembly in September after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged the US federal government to enforce an International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
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[2026-07-27 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-27 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, a Democrat, was indicted by an Oahu grand jury on Friday on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and falsifying candidate committee reports. The charges stem from an alleged 2022 scheme, dating to her time as a powerful state lawmaker, to steer state money toward COVID-19 testing contracts during the pandemic.
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[2026-07-27 03:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the state memorial for Ze’ev Jabotinsky, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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[2026-07-27 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In the first 13 months of US President Donald Trump’s second term in office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu racked up a hefty amount of miles flying the Tel Aviv-Washington route.
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[2026-07-27 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The deadly shooting in the village of Tell, south of Nablus, in which an IDF commander and a member of the Gilad Farm security squad were killed on Friday by a Palestinian who snatched a firearm during clashes, has sharpened tensions across the West Bank.
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[2026-07-27 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UK government told Karim Khan it would not support him as chief prosecutor and declined his request to meet ministers before International Criminal Court (ICC) member states voted to remove him from his role, Middle East Eye can reveal.
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[2026-07-27 02:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
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[2026-07-27 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Biden administration officials have expressed regret that the former US president's support for Israel ultimately "enabled" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to broaden the war in the region, according to a long-form New Yorker investigation published last week.
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[2026-07-27 02:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un tribunal federal de apelaciones confirmó un fallo que, en casi la mitad de los estados de Estados Unidos, detuvo la orden ejecutiva del presidente Donald Trump para crear una lista federal de votantes elegibles y limitar la entrega de boletas por correo únicamente a las personas incluidas en esa lista.
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[2026-07-27 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Sunday a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel "cannot go unanswered".
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[2026-07-27 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Romanian President Nicusor Dan, left, and Moldovan President Maia Sandu attend the Coalition of the Willing summit on security guarantees for Ukraine, at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, Monday, July 2026. (Teresa Suares/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-07-27 02:29 UTC+10:00] [US foreign policy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Even if no reactors are built, Donald Trump’s announcement of a double-standards deal with Riyadh has wrought further damage in a new era of proliferation
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[2026-07-27 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Department of Elections workers sort mail-in ballots for the California primary election at City Hall on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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[2026-07-27 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Pralhad Joshi has been appointed as India’s education minister after weeks-long protests over an exam leak scandal led to the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.
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[2026-07-27 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Venezuela's foreign minister said on Friday the country has formally notified the United Nations (UN) of its "irrevocable" decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which had been conducting a multi-year investigation into members of its armed forces and otherofficials.
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[2026-07-27 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's cabinet logged a 10-point drop in its approval rating in the latest Nikkei poll. (Photo by Ken Suzuki)
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[2026-07-27 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has paused attacks on Iran to give talks “some space” for diplomacy, American envoy to the UN Mike Waltz has said, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to visit the White House this week.
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[2026-07-27 02:09 UTC+10:00] [India] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Strongman leader’s grip over media channels has been rocked and opposition parties reinvigorated by CJP
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[2026-07-27 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SAO PAULO — Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it denied visas to two US State Department officials that sought to travel to the South American nation next week, in the latest political barb between the two countries.
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[2026-07-27 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NEW DELHI — India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams.
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[2026-07-27 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: IN the first half of 2026, the nation witnessed dramatic leadership shifts in the Senate, spiced up with the “numbers game,” boycotts, a shooting incident and the arrest of two senators in between.
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[2026-07-27 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: President Sheikh Mohamed extended his congratulations to the new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham during a phone call on Sunday.
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[2026-07-27 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Layout: See subtitle; i-italicize at ilagay ito below the head
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[2026-07-27 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE proposed Basic Education Voucher Assistance Act may soon be presented to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for his signature. Once signed, this landmark measure will strengthen the partnership between the government and the private education sector by expanding the current subsidy programs in Grades 7 to 12 to include Kindergarten to Grade 6 Filipino learners.
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spent the week before his fifth State of the Nation Address visiting government projects and launching programs covering housing, agriculture, energy, health care, digital infrastructure, defense and public services.
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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Why the prosecution is failing in VP Sara’s impeachment trialTHE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
So far, the three prosecution witnesses, presented to prove Article IV of the impeachment complaint charging VP Sara for the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust — Senior Agent Mark Calilung, Regional Director Jeremy Lotoc and Director Melvin Matibag, all from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) — have not proved the case of the prosecution.
Calilung was presented to prove the authenticity of the video containing the online conference of VP Sara, where she uttered the remarks the prosecution regarded as grave threats and inciting to sedition, which formed the basis of the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust.
In the first place, the said conference is not in dispute nor were the utterances made there; hence, Calilung’s testimony on this matter is unnecessary and useless. His other testimony touched on the investigation he conducted at that conference. Instead of favoring the prosecution, he highlighted the fact the inquiry he made was superficial and merely for show. He limited his investigation to four participants, i.e. news reporters and a blogger. He disregarded getting information from the other reporters present to determine the environment under which VP Sara’s remarks were made.
Calilung did not coordinate with the Presidential Security Group as to whether the vice president’s statements constituted a threat to the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., nor did it coordinate with the Armed Forces of the Philippines to evaluate whether her remarks constituted a threat to national security.
Additionally, Calilung was called to the witness stand as an expert witness on cyber libel. It turned out he only trained for two weeks — hardly a training experience required of a witness before qualifying as an expert witness in a particular field. This witness could not also answer directly the questions of the defense counsel on cross-examination, dodging these — a trait that understandably and unsurprisingly characterized the manner of responses by the other two NBI witnesses.
One of them, Lotoc, was nowhere an improvement on Calilung as a witness. He effectively sunk further the prosecution’s case as he validated Calilung’s testimony that the NBI’s first and second investigations were not thorough and merely pro porma. Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that they did not investigate the threat against VP Sara’s life, apart from sending her an invitation to provide their agency information on the threat — which she declined — despite the continuing visible threat, in addition to the oppressive acts committed against her, her family, her staff and her allies, especially the withdrawal of her trusted security personnel, whose circumstances triggered her outburst, calling out the people for help on the imminence of her physical obliteration and seeking justice for her planned assassination, as well as unmasking her would-be perpetrators.
Lotoc, using his being a lawyer to full extent, hewed and dodged as he avoided answering directly the questions from the cross-examiner. He came out as an unreliable witness when he admitted that he was facing serious criminal charges of arbitrary detention and unlawful arrest at the Office of the Ombudsman, including crimes involving moral turpitude, such as theft, robbery and perjury.
Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that there were no reported seditious acts committed by various groups as a consequence of VP Sara’s allegedly seditious remarks and grave threats against President Marcos, nor was she present at anti-government rallies advocating to overthrow the government.
The third prosecution witness, Matibag, whose political somersaulting qualifies him as a political operator, thereby exposing his dubious political loyalty to a cause, is a patently biased witness. He admitted to writing three vicious, disparaging articles in the Daily Tribune against VP Sara. His wife is a member of the House of Representatives who voted to impeach the vice president. He cannot, therefore, say anything good against the respondent and would certainly testify against her, and in fact he did, with gusto.
Despite the relentless propagandizing of the prosecution team inside the impeachment court, inadvertently aided by the erroneous rulings of the presiding officer, as well as the constant black propaganda dished out in public by its allies in Congress, its case against VP Sara and obsession to remove her from office and disqualify her from running in the 2028 presidential elections has not gained a foothold, simply because there is no constitutional basis for the articles of impeachment.
Not even a foolish rant from a member of the impeachment court notorious for advocating the necessity of bending or breaking a law could help the prosecution’s losing cause. This law bender railed against his colleagues for standing up and defending themselves from malicious innuendo and evident intimidation coming from a prosecution witness and a government official who foisted the filing of cases against two senator-judges, necessarily impugning their integrity. He doesn’t even know the function of the impeachment court, which is to hear a case filed against an impeachable officer and to decide it in accordance with the law and evidence presented before it.
One begins to wonder what sins have the people committed to deserve a harebrained politician, and what graver sins they have committed, to deserve failed governance from those they have placed in power.Snippet: THE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
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[2026-07-27 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Liverpool] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Forward scored in friendly win against Sunderland
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[2026-07-27 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UK government told Karim Khan it would not support him as chief prosecutor and declined his request to meet ministers before International Criminal Court member states voted to remove him from his role, Middle East Eye can reveal.
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[2026-07-27 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: SAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal wildlife authorities are investigating after a video appeared to show a person kicking a protected sea lion at a beach in California.
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[2026-07-27 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Dubai government on Sunday opened a dedicated pet shelter primed to offer a safe haven to its stray animal population.
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[2026-07-27 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday welcomed the removal of International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, accusing him of political bias.
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[2026-07-27 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian immigration and asylum] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: Tribunal accepts three siblings could face ‘persecution’ for refusing military conscription due to their political opinion on war
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[2026-07-27 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Raymond Democrito Mendoza is currently a deputy speaker of the House of Representatives in the 19th Congress of the Philippines. He has been representing the Trade Union Congress Party, the political arm of Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), since the 14th Congress via the party list.
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[2026-07-27 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Unreleased documentary footage shows that the late US senator Lindsey Graham spent years privately pressing US President Donald Trump and foreign leaders to overthrow Iran’s regime, at times advocating military action that went beyond what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was prepared to support, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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[2026-07-27 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Iran war will end "when the Iranian regime falls, or weakens to such an extent that it understands that it must end its nuclear program," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a Sunday interview with Fox News.
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