Topic: Transport — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-24 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: It has been almost two months since the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, unleashing violence across the region and chaos in the global economy. But one of the strange and definitely unintended consequences of this war has been a renewed focus on green energy. Josephine Tovey sits down with Gabrielle Jackson and Adam Morton to discuss whether this crisis will energise or end the renewables revolution
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[2026-04-24 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Dubai motorists will soon be able to pay for valet parking services without reaching for their wallet under a digital payment system to be introduced by the emirate's road toll operator.
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[2026-04-24 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. does not feel alluded to by former Speaker Martin Romualdez's remarks that command responsibility for the 2025 budget mess and the infrastructure corruption scandal lies with the Executive branch, Malacañang said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Market watchdog flags AI abuse and traffic-driven tactics as it launches first campaign to overhaul online advertising
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[2026-04-23 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Market watchdog flags AI abuse and traffic-driven tactics as it launches first campaign to overhaul online advertising
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[2026-04-23 23:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest often causes deforestation that threatens the people who live there. But for scientists, it can also provide clues to the region’s past long before Europeans arrived to reshape it. (AP Video by Felipe Campos Mello and Eraldo Peres)
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[2026-04-23 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Real estate firm Reuben Brothers is betting on the future of urban air travel, unveiling plans to bring a luxury “vertiport” to Century City through a partnership with Joby Aviation.
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[2026-04-23 22:50 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-23 22:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In some sectors of American Jewry, there is frustration with Israeli journalists’ critical reporting and opinion pieces that are picked up by hostile voices in the United States. These pieces are, at times, repurposed in ways that can fuel antisemitism, thus creating, in the eyes of some American Jews, a direct and tangible threat.
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[2026-04-23 22:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran’s semi official Tasnim News Agency, linked to its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Wednesday about the vulnerability of undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz. The thinly veiled warning, though not official, targeted a critical though often overlooked part of global infrastructure: the fibre‑optic lines that carry much of the world’s data.
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[2026-04-23 22:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US equity futures are lower, but rapidly rising and now at premarket highs after a CCTV report that talks between Iran and the US in Pakistan may see a breakthrough "tonight or tomorrow"; still the optimism of recent days is being tested, with peace talks in limbo, software concerns reemerging and the bond market flashing warning signals.
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[2026-04-23 22:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Airport Authority CEO Vivian Cheung also says she aims to turn facility into alternative aviation hub for Middle East
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[2026-04-23 22:35 UTC+10:00] [scmp] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Airport Authority CEO Vivian Cheung also says she aims to turn facility into alternative aviation hub for Middle East
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[2026-04-23 22:30 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Australia now has 10 days' more supply of petrol than before war broke out in the Middle East, as the crisis forces the country to look further afield for petrol and pushes more drivers toward electric vehicles.Three weeks ago, US President Donald Trump had a message to nations concerned about fuel shortages sparked by Iran's effective closure of the Hormuz Strait in response to the US and Israel's attack on the country."Buy oil from the United States of America -
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[2026-04-23 22:28 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Huawei Technologies will invest 18 billion yuan ($2.6 billion) globally on research and development in smart driving technologies, including 10 billion yuan on computing power for training, a senior executive said on Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: American Airlines slashed its full-year outlook on Thursday morning, warning it could post a loss in 2026 as the Iran-U.S. war, which sent jet fuel prices soaring, adds roughly $4 billion in fuel costs.
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[2026-04-23 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Williams, from Nether Alderley in Cheshire, first started karting in 2021
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[2026-04-23 21:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF is searching for a terrorist who threw rocks at vehicles driving on Highway 60 in the Madama area in the West Bank after a 5-year-old child was injured on Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Continuing our coverage of consumer behavior shifts at petrol stations and convenience stores, the U.S. national average for 87-octane gasoline has remained above the politically sensitive $4-a-gallon level for three weeks. Goldman analysts have released a new note indicating that a majority of convenience stores are seeing drivers buying less fuel and trading down in-store.
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[2026-04-23 21:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US-Israeli war on Iran, which began on 28 February, has been presented in Washington as a response to "imminent threats" and concerns over nuclear proliferation.
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[2026-04-23 21:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: At first glance, the Arab position on the ongoing US-Israel war with Iran appears incoherent. Gulf Arab states have absorbed Iranian missile and drone attacks on critical infrastructure, yet none of them have retaliated militarily, while maintaining open diplomatic channels with Tehran.
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[2026-04-23 21:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O mais recente relatório anual de estatísticas de pane do Automóvel Clube Alemão (ADAC) mostra que os veículos com motor de combustão apresentam significativamente mais falhas do que os carros elétricos. Um único componente é responsável por quase metade dos casos, seja em elétricos ou não: a bateria de partida.
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[2026-04-23 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: European auto sales posted their strongest monthly gain in almost two years in March, as robust demand emerged for fully electric and hybrid models. The surge in demand follows the US-Iran conflict, which disrupted energy flows through the Hormuz chokepoint. As a result, petrol and diesel prices at the pump in Europe soared.
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[2026-04-23 21:15 UTC+10:00] [Reliant Robin] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: 22,500km, 22 countries, 1 Reliant Robin. Two friends’ intercontinental road trip was risky and rewarding. But why embark on such a journey?
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[2026-04-23 21:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: 22,500km, 22 countries, 1 Reliant Robin. Two friends’ intercontinental road trip was risky and rewarding. But why embark on such a journey?
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[2026-04-23 21:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: American Airlines on Thursday cut its 2026 earnings forecast, becoming the latest airline to lower its outlook after a surge in fuel costs added billions to its expenses this year.
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[2026-04-23 20:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: An early bumper harvest and rising fuel and freight costs are squeezing premium durian exporters as they race to get their fruit into China
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[2026-04-23 20:59 UTC+10:00] [Vietnam] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: An early bumper harvest and rising fuel and freight costs are squeezing premium durian exporters as they race to get their fruit into China
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[2026-04-23 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The owners of the intellectual property of Better Place, a defunct Israeli start-up that innovated in the late 2000s and early 2010s in electric-vehicle battery-swap systems, filed a lawsuit against a $16 billion Chinese EV maker for intellectual property infringement, The Financial Times reported on Thursday night.
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[2026-04-23 20:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: German aviation company Lufthansa Group says it would cut 20,000 short-haul flights up until October as the Iran war drives up oil prices and deepens worries that some countries may run low on jet fuel.
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[2026-04-23 20:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Middle Eastern oil and gas producers are still scrambling to find and expand alternative routes for their exports, almost two months after the critical Strait of Hormuz was effectively shut to commercial traffic.
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[2026-04-23 20:16 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The government said Thursday it will maintain the current price ceilings on fuel products for another two weeks considering international oil prices and demand-side controls.
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[2026-04-23 20:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Hello from Hong Kong. This is Cissy, and I will be taking you through #techAsia this week.
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[2026-04-23 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- The government said Thursday it will maintain the current price ceilings on fuel products for another two weeks considering international oil prices and demand-side controls.
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[2026-04-23 19:53 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Businessman Adrian Portelli was back in the news on Thursday after opening his new venture, selling fuel for $1 a litre at a petrol station in Preston.
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[2026-04-23 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Environment / Climate change] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As electric vehicle uptake surges, Australia’s charging network is failing to keep up with growing demand, leaving drivers queuing at charging stations and the industry demanding governments clear “lumbering monopolies” in the energy sector.
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[2026-04-23 19:24 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Will Australians spend over $100,000 on a Chinese car?
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[2026-04-23 19:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Anthropic is ramping up a push to secure European data center deals to power its AI models, as it looks to hire a role for negotiating compute capacity in the region.
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[2026-04-23 19:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: HANOI, April 23 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung and Vietnam's top leader To Lam agreed to advance cooperation in energy and infrastructure during summit talks, including Vietnam's possible revival of its nuclear power program, Seoul's top security official said Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 19:15 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-04-23 19:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) -- Sales of South Korea's leading automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. in Europe rose 5.5 percent in March from a year earlier, supported by solid demand for eco-friendly models, industry data showed Thursday.
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[2026-04-23 18:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A failed Palestinian car bomber released as part of an October 7 Massacre hostage ransom spoke remotely to University of California, Berkeley students on Monday at an event held in one of the university's classrooms, according to social media posts by the organizing student groups.
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[2026-04-23 18:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The war-driven hike in fossil fuel prices is narrowing the cost gap, making the clean energy alternative look like a good option
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[2026-04-23 18:33 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The war-driven hike in fossil fuel prices is narrowing the cost gap, making the clean energy alternative look like a good option
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[2026-04-23 18:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Hyundai Rotem has secured its first railway contract in Vietnam, establishing a foothold in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing infrastructure markets.
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[2026-04-23 18:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Department of Energy's (DOE’s) Nuclear Fuel Defense Production Act (DPA) Consortium will be meeting on Thursday morning to “provide updates to the public on the progress of the Consortium and provide commentary on approved Plans of Action”.
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[2026-04-23 18:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: JINJU, South Korea, April 23 (Yonhap) -- A district court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for a truck driver who drove into a group of rallygoers in the southeastern city of Jinju this week, killing one and injuring two others.
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[2026-04-23 18:06 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Queensland government is being urged to consider harsher penalties for people found guilty of killing or injuring a pet after a German Shepherd died in the back of a car in Brisbane last year in a case that caused public outrage.
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[2026-04-23 17:57 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Hyundai Motor Co. reported record first-quarter revenue, driven by strong hybrid sales across key markets including the US, despite mounting global uncertainties such as tariffs and Middle East tensions.
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[2026-04-23 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Honda Motor, facing heavy losses following changes to its EV strategy, says it will stop selling automobiles in South Korea. (Photo by Azusa Kawakami)
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