Topic: Tax & Budget — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-27 15:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: HONG KONG — After spending more than five years in Hong Kong's prison, former pro-democracy lawmaker Wu Chi-wai finally got to embrace his wife and son in London last week. They wept with joy. But he could be sent back to the Chinese territory this week, far earlier than planned.
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[2026-07-27 12:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Congress opened the Second Regular Session of the 20th Congress, with the passage of the 2027 national budget bill topping the agenda.
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[2026-07-27 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Antitrust] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump says they're a tax. European regulators consider it routine enforcement. Either way, when EU bureaucrats slap the world’s biggest technology companies with a fine, the numbers can make your eyes bulge.
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[2026-07-27 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Britain's bankers fear Andy Burnham could be about to hit them with a massive tax bill.
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[2026-07-27 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s new tax rules aim to close loopholes and boost fiscal revenue amid slowing economic growth and rising fiscal burdens
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[2026-07-27 10:00 UTC+10:00] [tax] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s new tax rules aim to close loopholes and boost fiscal revenue amid slowing economic growth and rising fiscal burdens
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[2026-07-27 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From Singapore to Dubai, global capital favours predictable courts over tax breaks. Experts say Jakarta should take note
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[2026-07-27 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Bali] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From Singapore to Dubai, global capital favours predictable courts over tax breaks. Experts say Jakarta should take note
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[2026-07-27 08:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Prime Minister Andy Burnham's latest policy plans lead several front pages. "PM to crack down on youth benefits" is the Daily Telegraph's headline, reporting that "payments may be stopped unless training or voluntary work is done" as part of the new administration's efforts to "reduce the country's £333bn welfare bill" and "find billions of pounds for spending on social care and defence".
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[2026-07-27 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Kemi Badenoch has written to the prime minister asking him to "rule out any tax rises or increased borrowing" to fund social care reform.
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[2026-07-27 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-27 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An Israeli man convicted of tax fraud was extradited to Israel from Panama on Sunday after an international manhunt lasting nearly two-and-a-half years, according to a statement by a spokesperson for the Tax Authority.
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-07-27 00:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: While baby boomers hog most of the attention in conversations about retirement, Gen Xers are marching toward the same destination, and in many cases, without key financial benefits of the former generation. Retiring by 55 in America is mostly a relic of the defined benefit pension plan-funded past. Now, most people in the 50-55 range are still looking at 10 to 15 working years ahead.
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[2026-07-27 00:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: As the AI infrastructure buildout and global geopolitical developments spur massive spending, an old-guard sector of the economy is getting a level of attention from investors that rivals the action in tech. The industrials sector of the S&P 500 is trading at a price-to-earnings ratio above 30, a level investors more often associate with high fliers, and a P/E ratio that is well above industrials' long-term average, which is closer to 20.
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[2026-07-26 23:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A Russian-US space crew returned safely to Earth on Sunday after spending more than eight months aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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[2026-07-26 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said Iran sold $11.5 billion worth of oil during the war and a further $6.5 billion during a ceasefire, when lower risks to tanker traffic helped increase exports and enabled the sale of part of around 100 million barrels of stored crude oil and gas condensate.
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[2026-07-26 19:30 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Sydney’s affluent inner-city suburbs are home to lovingly restored terrace housing, designer dogs and sought-after restaurants.
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[2026-07-26 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Falling property wealth, job insecurity and sky-high childcare costs are forcing middle-class families to aggressively scale back consumer spending
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[2026-07-26 16:00 UTC+10:00] [South Korea] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Falling property wealth, job insecurity and sky-high childcare costs are forcing middle-class families to aggressively scale back consumer spending
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[2026-07-26 12:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) -- Pension funds, including the National Pension Service (NPS), one of the biggest institutional investors in the South Korean stock market, turned net buyers of local equities this month for the first time this year, bourse data showed Sunday.
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[2026-07-26 11:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Prime Minister Andy Burnham's policy proposals are prominent across Sunday's papers. The Mail on Sunday leads with "Burnham's big spree", saying the PM is facing criticism from the Tories for planning a "tax bombshell" on working families with his raft of policy pledges. The paper says the Conservatives are accusing the PM of "writing cheques British people can't cash".
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[2026-07-26 10:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-26 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Renewable Energy
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[2026-07-26 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-26 03:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that Israel is spending roughly $50 million on an American influence campaign involving artificial-intelligence-generated text messages, conservative media, online influencers, and former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
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[2026-07-25 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Japan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Sanae Takaichi’s blueprint to inject £1.7tn and double economic growth leaves many investors fearful
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[2026-07-25 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Karim Khan, fiscal jefe de la Corte Penal Internacional, antes del inicio de una sesión del alto tribunal, en La Haya, Países Bajos, el 14 de marzo de 2025. (AP Foto/Peter Dejong, Pool, archivo)
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[2026-07-25 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Business / The economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Soaring petrol prices and multiple interest rate hikes have delivered the biggest quarterly hit to household finances in more than two decades.
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[2026-07-25 19:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-25 18:42 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: For five (often long) days, Queensland ministers and their public sector officials have faced questions of varying difficulty in the annual show of budget scrutiny by state parliament.
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[2026-07-25 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Financial Times
Snippet: "Expert, reliable, considered, actionable opinion"
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[2026-07-25 11:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-25 10:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El fiscal de distrito del condado de Los Ángeles, Nathan Hochman, habla con los periodistas en Los Ángeles el martes 21 de julio de 2026 sobre el caso de David Anthony Burke, conocido como D4vd, quien fue acusado de matar a una adolescente de 14 años cuyo cuerpo descuartizado fue hallado en su automóvil.
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[2026-07-25 09:38 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Three-judge panel of Democratic appointees let stand lower court’s ruling that fee constitutes an unlawful tax
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[2026-07-25 07:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Tom Goldstein, who writes SCOTUSblog.com, poses for a photograph in front of the Supreme Court, Oct. 31, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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[2026-07-25 06:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: When the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a $1.5 trillion budget for the Department of War this week, the bill included a controversial provision that would permanently integrate US and Israeli military tech advancements in a way that would - as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it - turn Israel from a foreign aid recipient to a full-scale partner.
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[2026-07-25 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ARCHIVO – Karim Khan, fiscal de la Corte Penal Internacional, antes de una conferencia de prensa en La Haya, Holanda, el 3 de julio de 2023. (AP Foto/Peter Dejong, Archivo)
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[2026-07-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-07-25 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Pennsylvania Department of Health received $242,000 in this year’s budget to help county teams review the deaths of children, a state mandate many have struggled to keep up with.
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[2026-07-25 03:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure at a trillion-dollar annual clip is eroding the free cash flow and increasing balance-sheet risk at so-called hyperscalers, warned Moody's Ratings.
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[2026-07-25 03:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-25 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-25 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The number of individual defined contribution pension accounts in Japan swelled 15-fold over a decade to 4 million at the end of March. (Photo by Yuji Murakami)
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[2026-07-25 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Un fiscal federal de Estados Unidos anunció el viernes una acusación federal contra 11 personas por las muertes por tráfico de siete migrantes que se escondían dentro de un sofocante contenedor de carga ferroviaria en Texas en mayo.
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[2026-07-25 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has laid out an investment strategy that calls for more than 370 trillion yen in spending by fiscal 2040. (Nikkei montage)
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[2026-07-25 00:47 UTC+10:00] [Accountability] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — France, Italy and Spain are among 10 countries pushing back against a European Commission plan to link EU payments to policy overhauls in the bloc's next seven-year budget, four diplomats with knowledge of discussions told POLITICO.
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[2026-07-24 23:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An American Express card is shown, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
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[2026-07-24 21:32 UTC+10:00] [Trump tariffs] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Even some Republicans apparently expressing concern over measures against 85 countries
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[2026-07-24 21:30 UTC+10:00] [consumer electronics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Major smartphone vendors will try to abandon the money-losing segment despite strong consumer demand, and pivot to more value-added products
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