Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-22 04:16 UTC+10:00] [culture] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday that the bloc intends to cut funding to the Venice Biennale following a decision by the art exhibition to readmit Russian artists to its 2026 edition.
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[2026-04-22 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has completed repairs on a damaged oil pipeline and is preparing to resume flows, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, while warning that there is no guarantee Russia will not target the infrastructure again.
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[2026-04-22 03:13 UTC+10:00] [Artificial Intelligence] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Russia is deploying artificial intelligence to accelerate its cyberattacks on Europe, Dutch military intelligence warned Tuesday — and the threat is only expected to grow.
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[2026-04-22 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A liquefied petroleum gas tanker docked in Mumbai on April 1 after transiting the Strait of Hormuz. © Reuters
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[2026-04-22 02:07 UTC+10:00] [Communications] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Ukraine has repaired the Druzhba oil pipeline, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, paving the way for Kyiv to receive a long-awaited €90 billion EU loan.
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[2026-04-22 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia's army said Tuesday its Africa Corps unit had freed two hostages — employees of Russian geology company — held in Mali, almost two years after they were captured by an al-Qaeda-linked group in neighboring Niger.
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[2026-04-22 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia has taken down two decades’ worth of judicial statistics from public access, removing data that had been widely used by journalists and rights groups to track prosecutions and broader legal trends.
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[2026-04-22 00:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A surge in Ukrainian drone attacks on ports and refineries has forced Russia to slash its oil production in April, Reuters reported on Tuesday, in what could be the sharpest monthly decline in output since the Covid-19 pandemic.
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[2026-04-21 23:37 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Campaigners say banks and web platforms are being told to collect data on customers visiting blocked sites
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[2026-04-21 23:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Law enforcement authorities have detained the CEO of Russia’s largest publishing house for questioning in connection with an ongoing investigation into LGBTQ+ “extremism,” Russian media reported Tuesday.
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[2026-04-21 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this photo, provided by the French Army on Monday, April 20, 2026, a Russian Su-35 fighter jet flies over the Baltic Sea. (Etat-Major des Armees via AP)
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[2026-04-21 22:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Luxembourg, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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[2026-04-21 22:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is leveraging commercial assets to expand its military presence in Mali, bolstering a force that has come under scrutiny for perpetrating human rights abuses, according to a new report by Washington-based investigative organization The Sentry.
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[2026-04-21 21:53 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: North Korea and Russia held a ceremony Tuesday to mark the linking of a cross-border road bridge over the Tumen River, the Russian Embassy in North Korea said, adding the bridge is set for completion in mid-June.
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[2026-04-21 21:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he considered visits by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow but not Kyiv "disrespectful".
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[2026-04-21 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- North Korea and Russia held a ceremony Tuesday to mark the linking of a cross-border road bridge over the Tumen River, the Russian Embassy in North Korea said, adding the bridge is set for completion in mid-June.
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[2026-04-21 20:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Dozens of Israeli citizens were detained and questioned for several hours this weekend at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, Israel’s foreign ministry said Monday, with Russian media reporting that security officials questioned some of them over the war in Iran.
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[2026-04-21 19:19 UTC+10:00] [Moscow] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing also outlines progress in disarmament and its long-standing policies in first such report since 2021
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[2026-04-21 18:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A judge in the city of Yekaterinburg on Tuesday sentenced an editor of the pro-Kremlin news agency Ura.ru to five years in prison after he was found guilty of bribing his uncle, a former senior police official, to obtain confidential internal reports.
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[2026-04-21 17:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Japanese government has announced plans to lift a ban on lethal weapons exports, marking the latest shift away from the country's post-war pacifist policy.
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[2026-04-21 17:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Volodymyr Zelensky’s head of his Presidential Office in Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, has announced plans to import migrant laborers from Africa. Essentially, this entails Ukraine establishing new laws for the legal entry and residence of foreign workers.
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[2026-04-21 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: There's been yet another major attack on Russia's major Black Sea energy hub and port of Tuapse, after just a few days prior a drone wave had unleashed a fire so big it cold be seen from space, given the over 100-mile smoke plume that had spread over the Black Sea.
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[2026-04-21 12:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Amnesty International said Israel, Russia and the United States are leading a decline in global human rights, with the group’s secretary general Agnes Callamard describing their leaders as “voracious predators” in a new report on the state of human rights worldwide.
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[2026-04-21 10:50 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Macron says ‘reasonably optimistic’ loan with go through after election defeat of pro-Russian Hungarian PM. What we know on day 1,518
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[2026-04-21 10:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — The leaders of the United States, Israel and Russia are seeking to impose a new "predatory" world order while most countries are too cowardly to stop them, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.
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[2026-04-21 09:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: London, United Kingdom – Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of global human rights, Amnesty International has said, describing the three countries’ leaders as “voracious predators” intent upon economic and political domination.
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[2026-04-21 09:04 UTC+10:00] [WORLD] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: The leaders of the United States, Israel and Russia are seeking to impose a new "predatory" world order while most countries are too cowardly to stop them, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.
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[2026-04-21 08:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- Russia's interior minister has arrived in North Korea for talks on enhancing cooperation in law enforcement between the two nations, a Russian news report showed Tuesday.
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[2026-04-21 07:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Estonia has dismissed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s claims that Russia could be preparing to attack NATO’s Baltic members, saying its intelligence does not indicate any such plans, according to public broadcaster ERR. Moscow has long described claims of a “Russian threat” as “nonsense” used by the US-led military bloc’s European members to justify their military buildup.
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[2026-04-21 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: European Union officials have said they expect progress this week on key dossiers regarding Ukraine and Israel after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose government had blocked the initiatives, was voted out of office.
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[2026-04-21 07:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Department of Justice appears to be gaining fresh momentum in its criminal investigation into the 2016 Trump-Russia collusion narrative, with a significant overhaul of the team handling the case in southern Florida.
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[2026-04-21 06:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The European Union’s law enforcement agency says investigators have traced 45 Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia, Belarus or occupied Ukrainian territory during the Russia-Ukraine war.
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[2026-04-21 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In the days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, Stephen Dametto grappled with the scale of the tragedy. By then a seasoned organised crime and counter-terrorism investigator with the Australian Federal Police, Dametto had spent years preparing for worst-case scenarios.
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[2026-04-21 04:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-04-21 04:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former CIA Director John Brennan arrives for a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, May 21, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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[2026-04-21 03:50 UTC+10:00] [Infrastructure] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS — EU ambassadors are poised to approve a €90 billion loan to Ukraine on Wednesday — if Russian oil transit to Hungary resumes in time.
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[2026-04-21 01:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia has repeatedly offered to remove Iran’s highly enriched uranium (HEU) since the United States and Israel first launched hostilities with the Islamic Republic last summer.
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[2026-04-21 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Berlin summoned the Russian ambassador on Monday over "direct threats from Russia" against "targets in Germany," the Foreign Ministry said.
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[2026-04-21 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Moscow authorities detained and interrogated approximately 40 Israelis landing at the Russian capital's Domodedovo Airport over involvement in the Iran war, Russian opposition outlet Mediazona reported on Monday.
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[2026-04-21 00:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Estonia’s top diplomat on Monday dismissed claims by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia may be preparing to invade the Baltic states, stating there is currently no evidence of a military buildup near NATO borders.
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[2026-04-21 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As the war in Iran enters its 8th week, Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid says that recent developments can be framed in two ways: either five steps forward towards peace and three back (seems more apt than three and two), or as evidence that the two sides remain far enough apart that a lasting deal will be extremely hard to achieve and markets have become far too optimistic.
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[2026-04-20 23:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia announced Monday that airlines will once again be allowed to make flights to Iran and sell tickets for flights to and from the United Arab Emirates.
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[2026-04-20 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rumen Radev has criticised military support for Ukraine’s war effort and the European Union’s heavy reliance on renewable energy
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[2026-04-20 23:25 UTC+10:00] [European Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rumen Radev has criticised military support for Ukraine’s war effort and the European Union’s heavy reliance on renewable energy
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[2026-04-20 22:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Kremlin said Monday that a new U.S. sanctions waiver on Russian oil exports proves that the commodity is too vital to the global economy to be sidelined.
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[2026-04-20 22:19 UTC+10:00] [Elections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Top European officials on Monday congratulated Bulgaria’s next leader Rumen Radev after his Progressive Bulgaria party won Sunday’s election, despite some concerns over his Russia-sympathetic positions.
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[2026-04-20 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russian authorities say they have thwarted a Ukraine-linked bomb plot against security services and arrested a German woman found with a makeshift bomb in her backpack.
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[2026-04-20 20:53 UTC+10:00] [Bulgaria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In one of the first reactions to the Bulgarian vote last night, the Kremlin has just said it was impressed by Radev’s words about pragmatic dialogue with Moscow, Reuters reported.
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[2026-04-20 20:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: There have been arrests of Western citizens by Russia amid the Ukraine war, typically on espionage charges that are widely seen as baseless
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[2026-04-20 20:29 UTC+10:00] [Ukrainian] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: There have been arrests of Western citizens by Russia amid the Ukraine war, typically on espionage charges that are widely seen as baseless
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