Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-25 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dr. Casey Means takes her seat at the start of a Senate Health, Education Labor and Pension Committee confirmation hearing for U.S. Surgeon General on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
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[2026-03-25 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: 25th March 2026, Colombo – SLICdonated Rs. 10 million to the ‘Rebuild Sri Lanka’ Fund in support of families affected by the recent ‘Ditwah’ cyclone.
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[2026-03-25 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The Kenyan government said Tuesday that two rivers have burst their banks, flooding farms and displacing families as the death toll in flooding in the east African nation this month rose to 88.
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[2026-03-25 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Dozens of labor activists protest near Malacanang in Manila on March 25, 2026 to demand higher wages from the government amid soaring fuel prices caused by the conflict in the Middle East. Transport workers, commuters and consumer groups are planning a two‑day strike from March 26 against the fuel price increases and what they describe as the Marcos administration's failure to act.
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[2026-03-25 22:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has submitted her government’s resignation to the king after her three-party coalition suffered a large defeat in a general election, the royal palace said in a statement.
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[2026-03-25 22:15 UTC+10:00] [Ramanan Ramakrishnan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ramanan Ramakrishnan has challenged businessman Victor Chin to identify the politician ‘Mr R’ said to be at the centre of the controversy
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[2026-03-25 22:05 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Foreign Minister Cho Hyun departed for France on Wednesday to attend the foreign ministerial meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced countries, the foreign ministry said.
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[2026-03-25 22:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said Israel “seeks to inflict the same level of damage and destruction” on Lebanon as on the Gaza Strip, as its army continues attacks across the neighbouring country amid plans to occupy its south.
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[2026-03-25 22:00 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Lawmakers say moratorium on construction would buy time to create strong, federal guardrails for AI
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[2026-03-25 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Denmark’s election on Tuesday ended in an inconclusive result that left the prime minister’s future unclear. (AP video: James Brooks, Kostya Manenkov)
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[2026-03-25 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for the EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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[2026-03-25 21:46 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-25 21:43 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Credit:Monique Westermann
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[2026-03-25 21:42 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-25 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) said Wednesday that it will introduce a grace period through the end of the year for a ban on advertising on Telegram and YouTube, coming after members of parliament urged the agency to clarify enforcement of the surprise ban.
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[2026-03-25 21:15 UTC+10:00] [Ding Xuexiang] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang says national capital and its neighbours should become ‘world-class science centre’ at high-profile tech forum
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[2026-03-25 21:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last week pushed back when asked whether stagflation posed a threat to the U.S. economy. His successor may face a tougher challenge, as Wall Street forecasters raise their expectations of recession, brought on in part by the Iran war and potential for higher prices.
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[2026-03-25 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: America doesn’t have to suffer whenever Democrats — or Republicans — decide to hold airline passengers hostage with a government shutdown that inevitably leads to hours-long TSA lines.
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[2026-03-25 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: This week the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that hinges on the meaning of Election Day — and it’s got Democrats sweating.
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[2026-03-25 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — President Trump gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “the business” in the past, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz revealed to “Pod Force One.”
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[2026-03-25 20:56 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: 9News Perth sports presenter Alicia Molik, WA Premier Roger Cook, 9News Perth presenter Tracy Vo and Today show reporter Lara Vella. Credit:Ammon Creative
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[2026-03-25 20:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: A Catholic bishop on March 25, 2026 urges Congress to revisit the Reproductive Health (RH) law, claiming it will pave the way for abortion. In a press conference led by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines and the Guadalupe Pilgrimage Committee in Manila ahead of the scheduled visit of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Kidapawan Bishop Jose Colin Bagaforo told _The Manila Times_ that the church upheld its stance on 'the sacredness of life,' stressing that Philippine
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[2026-03-25 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay was admitted to the National Hospital in Colombo yesterday (25) after falling suddenly ill.
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[2026-03-25 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A billboard of Pakistan’s premier domestic T20 the Pakistan Super League, which will take place in empty stadiums due to the recent spike in oil prices, is displayed at a road in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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[2026-03-25 20:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungary will gradually halt natural gas deliveries to Ukraine until Kiev restores the flow of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced.
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[2026-03-25 20:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A court in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay $375m (£279m) for misleading users over the safety of its platforms for children.
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[2026-03-25 20:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines- President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday announced that local government units (LGUs) would provide free rice to their constituents through the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) by April, as part of the government's efforts to help Filipinos cushion the impact of rising oil prices.
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[2026-03-25 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned Wednesday that the Middle East war presented a "far worse" scenario than the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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[2026-03-25 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats party has suffered its worst election result in over a century, securing about 21.9% of the vote in Tuesday’s general election – its lowest share since 1903 – according to exit polls.
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[2026-03-25 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats party has suffered its worst election result in over a century, securing about 21.9% of the vote in Tuesday’s general election – its lowest share since 1903 – according to exit polls.
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[2026-03-25 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has accused Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu of aiming to replicate the scale of devastation seen in Gaza in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-25 20:09 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea’s largest conglomerates are introducing new energy-saving measures in line with government policy, as a surge in oil prices triggered by the Middle East conflict increases pressure on Asia’s fourth-largest economy.
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[2026-03-25 19:53 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-25 19:50 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The wages of Victoria’s 34,000 government school classroom assistants have emerged as a flashpoint in the escalating teachers’ pay dispute that shut classrooms in hundreds of schools across the state on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-25 19:44 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Frederiksen told supporters she was ‘ready to take on the responsibility of serving as Denmark’s prime minister again for the next four years’
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[2026-03-25 19:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: American foreign policy has long rested on a simple premise: Impose enough economic pain, and adversaries will eventually give in. This approach often works when leaders conclude that their survival depends on compromise. But it fails in societies where, to paraphrase an old Arabic adage, honor matters more than bread.
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[2026-03-25 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Students in two regional Victorian towns will be able to access a popular “country feel” high school in Daylesford as part of 11 new enrolment boundary changes announced by the state government this week, marking a win for the community’s decade-long fight for change.
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[2026-03-25 19:28 UTC+10:00] [Tse Chin-wan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Environment minister Tse Chin-wan tells Legislative Council government open to reviewing tender policy for petrol station sites to bring down soaring fuel prices
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[2026-03-25 19:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spain to revoke protected status of town's 'sexist' Holy Week, confusion over Madrid's cancelled rubbish tax, Spanish government secures validation for crisis measures from Catalan nationalists and more news on Wednesday March 25th.
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[2026-03-25 18:53 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will convene a meeting of national cabinet on Monday as his government contemplates a national plan on fuel conservation to offset the risk of a supply shortage late next month due to the war in Iran.
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[2026-03-25 18:53 UTC+10:00] [Energy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fuel stocks at same level as when US and Israel launched their war on Iran a month ago, energy minister says
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[2026-03-25 18:51 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Tony Burke says decisions about permanent stays should be ‘deliberate decisions of the government, not a random consequence of who booked a holiday’
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[2026-03-25 18:36 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: More parents are taking their children out of childcare despite the government spending a record amount on childcare subsidies, as hourly costs in the sector continue to climb.
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[2026-03-25 18:25 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A 1,200-ton South Korean Navy vessel, the Cheonan, sank off the country’s west coast near the maritime border with North Korea on March 26, 2010, killing 46 of the 104 sailors on board. The remaining 58 crew members were rescued. The ship broke in two following a powerful explosion in its stern and sank rapidly, sending shockwaves through the military and public.
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[2026-03-25 18:15 UTC+10:00] [Taiwan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing said incident in which a man is accused of breaking in with a knife reflects the growth of ‘rampant far-right ideology’ in Japan
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[2026-03-25 18:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: South Korea stepped up its emergency economic planning on Wednesday as Prime Minister Kim Min-seok warned the government must prepare for "worst-case scenarios" from a Middle East conflict that has shown no sign of abating.
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[2026-03-25 18:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Ghana is intensifying its diplomatic campaign at the United Nations, combining cultural expression and political advocacy to push for global recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.
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[2026-03-25 18:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-03-25 18:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Seventeen foreign nationals have been arrested in Galle yesterday (24) for allegedly carrying out online scams in Sri Lanka.
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[2026-03-25 17:52 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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