Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: DFCC Bank PLC (DFCC Bank) has completed the supplementary international listing of Sri Lanka’s first-ever Blue Bond on the NSE International Exchange (NSEIX) at GIFT City, India, becoming the first Blue Bond from Sri Lanka to be listed internationally and the first Blue Bond to be admitted on NSEIX.
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation will conduct section trials to form the pools for the forthcoming CAVA mens’ and women’s Volleyball Championships. The 2026 CAVA women’s championship will be held in Nepal from May 22 to 29 and the Sri Lanka women’s pool selection will be held on March 17 and 18 from 9.00am to 4.00pm on both days at the Wathupitiwala Indoor Stadium.
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Government’s decision to boost the numbers in the country’s Police Force is a timely move indeed. In fact, this should have been done much earlier. Had this been so, much of the incidents of crime sweeping the country could have been averted or at least controlled, including murders.
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s most Trusted and Innovative media services provider
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Vignettes of the event
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lanka’s tea exporters are facing fresh uncertainty as regional conflict disrupts shipping routes to the Middle East while Iran’s currency crisis and banking restrictions continue to complicate the country’s tea-for-oil barter trade with Tehran.
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Rather than simply continuing the Sri Lankan traditional, rural, familial, orthodox brick and tile making, Sunil Siriwardhena made unbelievable adventurous strides. A lifetime of a high level rarely touched commercial activities invading and successfully developing was his landmark.
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[2026-03-05 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A meeting to review the measures currently in place to ensure the safety and welfare of the tourists and Sri Lankan migrant workers, as well as the next steps to be taken in response to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, was held at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday.
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[2026-03-05 06:29 UTC+10:00] [Premier League] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ⚽ Premier League updates from the 8.15pm GMT kick-off ⚽ Live scores | Table | Follow us on Bluesky | And mail Scott ⚽ Brighton v Arsenal, Man City v Nottingham Forest – live
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[2026-03-05 06:26 UTC+10:00] [Premier League] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: What a start for Villa! Chelsea fail to clear the ball away and Leon Bailey skips beyond his man and cuts back for Douglas Luíz to tuck the ball home.
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[2026-03-05 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A former Morgan Stanley financial adviser was convicted of federal fraud charges for cheating three NBA stars out of $5 million — using some of the money to built a state-of-the-art gym in his backyard.
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[2026-03-05 06:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An emergency shelter for women in Hilo with funding from the state and county hasn’t been inspected by county fire inspectors since it opened five years ago, and the bedrooms lack the required emergency exits.
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[2026-03-05 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US and Israeli forces took out the Iranian official behind a plot to assassinate President Trump in the final days of the 2024 election campaign, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 06:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says his legislation acknowledges the language spoken by the "mass majority". (AP: Mark Tantrum/File)
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[2026-03-05 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-03-05 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Tom Lowrey is a reporter in the ABC's Parliament House bureau. Tom has worked in the media since 2010, in a range of locations including regional NSW and Canberra. He joined the ABC in 2013, and began working in Parliament House in 2021.
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[2026-03-05 06:08 UTC+10:00] [PMQs] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street
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[2026-03-05 06:06 UTC+10:00] [US midterm elections 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Democratic voters in Texas displayed a survival instinct in picking James Talarico as their US Senate candidate
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[2026-03-05 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A coalition of major media groups has taken the unusual step of directly petitioning Victoria’s attorney-general for a law change to stop high-profile defendants from shielding their names and crimes from public view.
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[2026-03-05 05:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: British police have arrested three men suspected of spying for China, including the husband of a lawmaker from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ruling Labour Party, local media reported.
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[2026-03-05 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Manchester United’s Jack Fletcher plays during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers in Manchester, England, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson, File)
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[2026-03-05 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Defiant low-polling California Democrats are refusing to exit the crowded race for governor — even after party chair Rusty Hicks and Gavin Newsom himself told them to drop their longshot bids for the sake of avoiding a doomsday scenario of two Republicans advancing to the November general election.
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[2026-03-05 05:41 UTC+10:00] [Keir Starmer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The prime minister’s cautious stance about helping the US against the Tehran regime mirrors that of the electorate
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[2026-03-05 05:37 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: As major parties falter, One Nation surges — fueling debate on immigration, identity, and its chances of real electoral power.
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[2026-03-05 05:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump teased on Wednesday that he will soon be giving his stamp of approval in the heated Texas GOP Senate runoff — and whoever doesn’t get his backing should drop out.
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[2026-03-05 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-05 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto shake hands during their meeting at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-05 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The day after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, and the subsequent Iranian counterattack against US bases in the Gulf, Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that the UK government would intervene in the conflict in two ways.
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Environment / Climate change] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Having spent 16 weeks exchanging more than 130 texts with a senior federal public servant, the Woodside Energy employee expressed relief. “Thanks Rachel!” they wrote on September 12.
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: March 5, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: March 5, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: March 5, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-03-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Parliament
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[2026-03-05 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: A mulher é a principal provedora em menos de 10% dos lares heterossexuais na Alemanha, segundo um estudo divulgado pelo Escritório Federal de Estatísticas (Destatis) nesta terça-feira (03/02).
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[2026-03-05 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: RÍO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Un juez del Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil ordenó el arresto de Daniel Vorcaro, exdirector de un banco con activos de hasta 16.000 millones de dólares, en una nueva fase de una amplia investigación sobre un fraude por miles de millones de reales.
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[2026-03-05 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the US Senate were set to begin voting Wednesday on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorized by Congress.
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[2026-03-05 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LONDON (AP) — A former Hong Kong police officer and a U.K. border official acted on behalf of the Chinese government as secret law enforcement or intelligence agents in Britain, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 04:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Tim Walz and Keith Ellison were called to testify before the panel exploring fraud and misuse of government funds in the state. Both said state efforts to combat fraud have been hampered by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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[2026-03-05 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli security forces believe that Iran’s ruling establishment, despite suffering heavy losses from US-Israeli bombardment, is not close to collapsing, Walla reports.
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[2026-03-05 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli government approved an attack on Lebanon on Sunday night, hours before Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday, Israel's Channel 12 News has reported.
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[2026-03-05 04:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The case filed against any senator that fails to meet the requirements set by the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges will be returned to the complainant "for correction," Sen. Joseph Victor Ejercito said.
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[2026-03-05 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men’s hockey team visited President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and later received about a two-minute bipartisan standing ovation during his State of the Union address that night.
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[2026-03-05 03:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This April 7, 2009 file photo shows the Lonoke County Courthouse in Lonoke, Ark. (Jeff Mitchell/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP, File)
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[2026-03-05 03:50 UTC+10:00] [Berlin film festival] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: German government convened a crisis meeting after several prize winners condemned Israel’s actions against Palestinians
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[2026-03-05 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Marikina City’s flood control approach may serve as a model for other local governments as the national government considers establishing no-build zones and water retention basins to reduce flood risks.
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[2026-03-05 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed Muslim MPs and community figures at a "Big Iftar" event in Westminster Hall, organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, on Tuesday night.
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[2026-03-05 03:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday disclosed repeated Turkish initiatives to prevent a war between the United States and Iran, saying Tehran had failed to understand the mood in Washington.
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[2026-03-05 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIJING — China began the first of its "Two Sessions" political meetings on Wednesday, a grand political theater during which it will outline its annual growth target and defense budget, as well as its roadmap for the next five years.
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[2026-03-05 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: IN a press conference on Tuesday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. provided an update on the plight of Filipino citizens in the war-torn Middle East, disclosing that as of that time, a total of 1,416 Filipinos had requested repatriation from the government. As there are nearly 3 million Filipinos — most of them overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) — across the Middle East, it is likely that the number who would like to be brought out of harm’s way is much higher.
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