Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-27 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Dushyanth Weeraman has been restrained from performing the song “Nelum Wilen Pana” after the Colombo Commercial High Court found that he had been performing it as his own without obtaining permission from the creator. The enjoining order was issued today(27).
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[2026-03-27 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump’s name is seen on the U.S. Institute of Peace building, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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[2026-03-27 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A UK woman who claimed more than $30,000 in government benefits while claiming her anxiety was so crippling she couldn’t even leave the house was caught surfing and ziplining on vacation in Mexico.
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[2026-03-27 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo warned on Thursday that hostilities between the government and the AFC/M23 are spreading beyond the traditional epicenter of North and South Kivu into Tshopo Province, far from the front lines.
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[2026-03-27 21:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Balendra Shah, Nepal’s youngest prime minister, has been sworn in after his party’s landslide election victory following protests led by young people that toppled the government in September.
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[2026-03-27 21:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A discussion on the challenges facing Sri Lanka’s foreign employment sector amid the ongoing tensions in the Middle East was held yesterday (26) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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[2026-03-27 21:49 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A former LNP MP, one of the party’s 2024 election candidates and a former vice-president are among 50 new additions to the state’s public health service boards unveiled in the Crisafulli government’s long-awaited overhaul.
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[2026-03-27 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Young people use their phones to view social media in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
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[2026-03-27 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Minister of Rural Development, Social Security and Community Empowerment Upali Pannilage says 2025 recorded the highest debt repayment in Sri Lanka’s history.
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[2026-03-27 21:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Senate Democrats are fighting tooth and nail against the SAVE Act, arguing that requiring Americans to prove their identity with a photo ID when they go to the polls to vote — even when the ID itself is given away for free — prevents eligible voters from casting ballots.
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[2026-03-27 21:21 UTC+10:00] [All News] [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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[2026-03-27 21:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "seeks to inflict the same level of damage and destruction" on Lebanon as Israeli forces had wrought on Gaza, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-27 21:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: City state’s leader says relations with Hong Kong ‘more important than ever’ amid fragmenting world
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[2026-03-27 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Talk about some sky-high baggage fees.
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[2026-03-27 20:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People gather as Druze prisoners arrive by buses after their release in a prisoner exchange between Syrian government forces and Druze militiamen in Sweida province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Fahd Kiwan)
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[2026-03-27 20:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines- The government is studying a proposed price freeze on petroleum products, Malacañang said Friday, as the Philippines faces four consecutive weeks of steep increases in pump prices.
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[2026-03-27 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday appointed Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo as deputy prime minister, replacing María Jesús Montero, who is stepping down to run in a regional election.
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[2026-03-27 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Passengers waiting in Houston’s hours-long airport security lines have plenty of time to vent their frustration with the political impasse that’s left TSA agents unpaid.
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[2026-03-27 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The deadly bombing of an Iranian school on the first day of the Iran war was a "calculated" assault by the United States, Iran's foreign minister said Friday.
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[2026-03-27 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘To support or not to support Ukraine can also have an impact on Taiwan and the security situation in the Indo-Pacific’: Pistorius
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[2026-03-27 19:53 UTC+10:00] [US politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: House of Representatives still needs to act before funded agencies such as airport security can reopen, CNN reports
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[2026-03-27 19:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Indian government's tax revenues have taken a "huge hit" after New Delhi slashed central excise duties on fuel for domestic consumption, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said Friday.The Indian government late Thursday cut central excise duties on petrol and diesel for domestic consumption by 10 rupees ($0.11) per liter each, to keep pump prices from rising as the Iran war disrupts global energy supplies.
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[2026-03-27 19:44 UTC+10:00] [All News] [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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[2026-03-27 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In the days leading up to this week’s strike by Victorian government school teachers, the first such action in 13 years, officials from the Australian Education Union (AEU) began to suspect that this was going to be big.
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[2026-03-27 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody has been indicted by the Colombo High Court over allegations of corruption during his tenure at the Ceylon Fertilizer Company in 2016. The case, filed by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), accuses Jayakody of influencing a procurement process for carpeting the Hunupitiya warehouse, causing a loss of Rs.
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[2026-03-27 19:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The new laws would be rolled into the existing Adult Crime, Adult Time legislation. (ABC News: Luke Bowden)
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[2026-03-27 19:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Economy Minister appointed deputy Spanish PM, Nato says Spain is meeting defence targets, Spanish motorways face busiest Easter in two decades and more news on Friday March 27th.
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[2026-03-27 19:00 UTC+10:00] [IPL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Former England captain moves on from lean World Cup and heads a 12-strong contingent of compatriots
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[2026-03-27 18:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ruled that former Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella and several senior officials violated the public’s Fundamental Rights by procuring health supplies from an unregistered company under the 2022 Indian Credit Line, bypassing standard procedures.
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[2026-03-27 18:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: San Miguel Corporation (SMC) Chairman and CEO Ramon S. Ang has renewed his offer to sell Petron Corporation to the Philippine government, citing the ongoing energy emergency and record-high fuel prices.
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[2026-03-27 18:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel’s opposition says military forces are ‘in collapse’
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[2026-03-27 18:29 UTC+10:00] [Rastriya Swatantra Party] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Balendra Shah, the 35-year-old ex-rapper widely known as Balen, is Nepal’s youngest PM in decades
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[2026-03-27 18:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump, left, listens as Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, on Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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[2026-03-27 18:23 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-27 18:11 UTC+10:00] [All News] [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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[2026-03-27 18:11 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A senior conservative lawmaker on Friday criticized the Lee Jae Myung administration’s North Korea policy, arguing it emboldens Pyongyang and calling for the immediate removal of the unification minister.
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[2026-03-27 17:43 UTC+10:00] [South Australian election 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ABC projects right-wing populist party will pick up the electorate of Hammond from the Liberals
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[2026-03-27 17:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Congress is one step closer to ending the Homeland Security shutdown after the Senate advanced a new, last-minute deal, but it came at the price of Republicans ceding ground, temporarily, to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
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[2026-03-27 17:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A Spanish woman who has conducted a long legal battle with her father for the right to end her life died by euthanasia on Thursday.
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[2026-03-27 17:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Balendra Shah (centro, con gafas de sol) llega a la toma de posesión de los nuevos parlamentarios en la Cámara de Representantes del Parlamento federal, en Katmandú, Nepal, el 26 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Niranjan Shrestha)
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[2026-03-27 16:55 UTC+10:00] [European Parliament] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Chair of consumer protection delegation due in China next week wants to convey ‘that our rules on product standards are to be followed’
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[2026-03-27 16:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Detroit pedophile who admitted to murdering a 13-year-old girl he had groomed for years and impregnated has killed himself in federal prison — just weeks into serving his decades-long sentence.
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[2026-03-27 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iran has allowed Malaysian ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Malaysia’s leader said, amid the global energy crunch driven by the United States and Israel’s war with Tehran.
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[2026-03-27 16:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Tyler Perry showed up at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Thursday ready to hand out a significant amount of cash to struggling TSA workers during the government shutdown — but federal rules stopped him cold.
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[2026-03-27 16:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:State and Territory Parliament
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[2026-03-27 15:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Balendra Shah, center with sun glasses, arrives for a swearing-in ceremony of newly elected members of the House of Representatives at the Federal Parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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[2026-03-27 15:30 UTC+10:00] [Asean] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Lawmakers have urged the president to postpone or scale down the event and redirect funds towards softening the blow of rising energy costs
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[2026-03-27 15:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Passengers waiting in Houston’s hours-long airport security lines have plenty of time to vent their frustration with the political impasse that’s left TSA agents unpaid.
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[2026-03-27 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Shopping malls under the Villar Group will adjust its operating hours starting March 30, 2026, following the government’s declaration of a national energy emergency.
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[2026-03-27 15:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Attendees cheer as White House Border Czar Tom Homan exits the stage during Conservative Political Action Committee at Gaylord Texan Resort and Conference Center, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Grapevine, Texas. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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