Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-27 10:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg, according to IRNA.
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[2026-04-27 10:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi also visited Oman between trips to Pakistani capital Islamabad for peace talks. Source: EPA / Alexander Kazakov
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[2026-04-27 09:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Russia allegedly launched a wide-scale phishing attack through the Signal app targeting Germany’s high-profile politicians, diplomats and military officers.
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[2026-04-27 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Conflicts in Ukraine and Iran have returned strategic focus to the idea of Eurasia as central to the global power contest, challenging the viability of the Indo-Pacific pivot
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[2026-04-27 07:30 UTC+10:00] [Biden administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Conflicts in Ukraine and Iran have returned strategic focus to the idea of Eurasia as central to the global power contest, challenging the viability of the Indo-Pacific pivot
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[2026-04-27 07:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow later today, the country's ISNA news agency is reporting.
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[2026-04-27 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Germany has signed €111 billion ($130 billion) worth of weapons contracts since 2022. However, its Defense Ministry cannot say how many have actually been delivered or put into service, Der Spiegel has reported.
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[2026-04-27 06:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi has departed Islamabad for Moscow, the Iranian foreigm ministry said, as mediators hoped to keep the prospect of more Iran-US talks alive.
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[2026-04-27 06:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi will travel to Moscow on Monday to discuss the latest developments around negotiations and the ceasefire, Iran’s ambassador to Russia said.
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[2026-04-27 05:39 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: India and Russia can now share army bases, ports and air bases and station up to 3,000 military personnel in each other’s territory, as the Indo-Russian Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Agreement (RELOS) – signed between New Delhi and Moscow in February 2025 – has become operational.
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[2026-04-27 05:33 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: In an internal email, the UNSW has asked staff to review their current and anticipated collaboration with Iran, Belarus, Russia and North Korea. Source: AAP / Dean Lewins
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[2026-04-27 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Editorial] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: At 1.23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, a massive explosion ripped through Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union, in an area that now belongs to Ukraine. A safety test triggered the worst nuclear accident in history, releasing 400 times more radiation into the atmosphere than the Hiroshima bomb of August 1945.
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[2026-04-27 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi departed Islamabad for Moscow on Sunday, his ministry said, ping-ponging from capital to capital as mediators hoped to keep peace talks between Tehran and the United States alive.
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[2026-04-27 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia killed at least 16 people, authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted fresh warnings about the risks posed by attacks near the plant during Russia’s more than four-year invasion of its neighbor.
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[2026-04-27 03:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-27 03:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘Through its war, Russia is once again bringing the world to the brink of a man-made disaster,’ said Ukraine’s President Zelensky on Sunday
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[2026-04-27 03:57 UTC+10:00] [Sevastopol] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘Through its war, Russia is once again bringing the world to the brink of a man-made disaster,’ said Ukraine’s President Zelensky on Sunday
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[2026-04-27 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov has awarded North Korean troops, who helped liberate Russia’s Kursk Region from Ukrainian forces, with the Order of Courage during his visit to Pyongyang.
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[2026-04-27 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov has awarded North Korean troops, who helped liberate Russia’s Kursk Region from Ukrainian forces, with the Order of Courage during his visit to Pyongyang.
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[2026-04-27 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Russia's foreign ministry on Sunday said that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would travel to Moscow for talks.
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[2026-04-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE International Criminal Court (ICC), conceived by the Rome Statute as a court of last resort for countries that do not have the capacity to prosecute those committing crimes against humanity or having such capacity to go after them refuses to do so, has of late come under a barrage of criticism owing to its assuming jurisdiction over countries that are nonmembers, like the United States, Israel, Russia and the Philippines.
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[2026-04-26 23:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The British government blocked most of a $100,000 charitable donation intended to support the welfare of Ukrainian children, approving funds for Ukraine while rejecting the portion designated for those now being cared for in Israel.
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[2026-04-26 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL — Russia's parliamentary speaker thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for "the liberation of Kursk" by sending troops there to fight off Ukrainians, Russian news agency TASS reported on Sunday.
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[2026-04-26 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un rescatista retira escombros tras un ataque ruso a un vecindario residencial de Dnipro, Ucrania, el 25 de abril de 2026. (AP Foto/Mykola Synelnykov)
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[2026-04-26 21:39 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Beijing warned Brussels that the “EU will bear all consequences” after the bloc included Chinese companies in its latest sanctions package against Russia, escalating tensions in an already strained Sino-Europe trade relationship.
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[2026-04-26 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 1986 disaster shone a spotlight on lax safety standards and government secrecy in what was then the Soviet Union
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[2026-04-26 20:44 UTC+10:00] [Chernobyl] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 1986 disaster shone a spotlight on lax safety standards and government secrecy in what was then the Soviet Union
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[2026-04-26 20:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Finnish Finance Minister Riikka Purra has warned of growing pressure on the country’s public finances. The warning comes just days after the government unveiled a multi-year fiscal plan that combines increased military aid to Ukraine with domestic spending cuts.
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[2026-04-26 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
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[2026-04-26 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
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[2026-04-26 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 26 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met the speaker of Russia's lower house in Pyongyang on Sunday, a foreign media report said.
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[2026-04-26 18:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukrainian officials say Russian attacks in several regions have killed at least five people and damaged a ship in the port of Odesa – as Moscow claimed to have intercepted more than 200 Ukrainian drones.
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[2026-04-26 18:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history.
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[2026-04-26 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A man dressed in white protective suits holds a candle during a memorial service dedicated to firefighters and workers who died after the 1986 Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear disaster, ahead of its 40th anniversary in Slavutych, Ukraine, Saturday, April 25, 2026.Chornobyl is the Ukrainian name for the city. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
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[2026-04-26 16:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, is set to return to Pakistan after a visit to Oman, before travelling onwards to Russia, according to IRNA.
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[2026-04-26 15:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Apr 26, 2026 - 08:58 am April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. At 01:23 that morning, while concluding a safety test, reactor No. 4 went into meltdown, triggering a massive steam explosion that sent radioactive fallout across Europe. It remains the largest nuclear disaster in history, with an environmental, social and healthcare cost estimated to have exceeded $700 billion.
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[2026-04-26 15:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukraine is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday amid lingering fears that Russia's four-year-old war could spark a repeat of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
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[2026-04-26 13:35 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: North Korea on Friday reiterated its commitment to expanding comprehensive cooperation with Russia, marking the seventh anniversary of leader Kim Jong-un’s first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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[2026-04-26 13:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Russian forces pounded the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro Saturday in waves of attacks with drones and missiles that also hit other regions, killing 10 people and injuring dozens.
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[2026-04-26 12:01 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A Russian delegation led by the country's Duma speaker arrived in Pyongyang to attend a ceremony marking the opening of a memorial museum honoring soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, North Korea's state media reported Sunday.
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[2026-04-26 11:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 26 (Yonhap) -- A Russian delegation led by the country's Duma speaker arrived in Pyongyang to attend a ceremony marking the opening of a memorial museum honoring soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, North Korea's state media reported Sunday.
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[2026-04-26 11:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE – Tatyana Ignatenko, the mother of firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, grieves near his grave at Mitinskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, the 20th anniversary of the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Vasily Ignatenko’s crew was the first to respond to the disaster.
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[2026-04-26 10:23 UTC+10:00] [Azerbaijan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ukrainian leader said agreement related to military-industrial co-operation; Russia pounds city of Dnipro with missiles and drones. What we know on day 1,523
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[2026-04-26 10:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: A broken doll lies on a bed in a bedroom of an abandoned kindergarten in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on 20 April, 2026 in Prypiat, around 2km from the site of the accident. Source: Getty / Global Images Ukraine/Global Images Ukraine via Getty
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[2026-04-26 07:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU will have to provide more money to Ukraine next year on top of the newly approved €90 billion ($105 billion), the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing diplomatic sources.
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[2026-04-26 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi is expected to visit mediator Pakistan again after completing his trip to Oman, before traveling to Russia, Iran's Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.
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[2026-04-26 04:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A dog and cat who found themselves stranded on the front lines in war-torn Ukraine didn’t have to claw their way to safety — instead, they got a ride to safety via a drone, according to a report.
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[2026-04-26 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: At least eight people were killed and 60 wounded across Ukraine in devastating attacks overnight, as the war-torn country faced one of Russia’s largest bombing campaigns of the war.
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[2026-04-26 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV— Russian drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed at least five people and wounded 46, authorities said Saturday.
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[2026-04-26 00:39 UTC+10:00] [Airspace] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Two U.K. Eurofighter Typhoon jets took off early Saturday morning after Russian drones approached the Romanian border with Ukraine, Romania's defense ministry said.
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