Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-21 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine is one of the most corrupt nations on Earth and Berlin should stop funding its government, Alternative for Germany party co-chair Alice Weidel has told the German parliament.
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[2026-03-21 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)
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[2026-03-21 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian negotiators will push for a clear timeframe for the next round of Russia talks, as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have been paused amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-21 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The small town of Karabash in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region has gained worldwide fame after a documentary filmed by local school videographer Pavel Talankin won an Academy Award on Sunday.
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[2026-03-21 01:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that Kyiv's negotiators will seek clarity from US officials on the next round of three-way talks with Russia, postponed due to the Iran war.
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[2026-03-21 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The French navy said Friday that it intercepted a false-flagged oil tanker sailing from Russia in the Mediterranean.
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[2026-03-21 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Five Russian Paralympians have been added to the ‘kill list’ run by Ukraine’s state-backed Mirotvorets website, which publishes the personal details of individuals it labels as ‘enemies’ of the state.
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[2026-03-21 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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[2026-03-20 23:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks with the media as he arrives for the EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)
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[2026-03-20 22:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A student soldier of the Yatagan School for Unmanned Aerial Systems launches a training target drone during drills in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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[2026-03-20 22:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The EU will provide a controversial loan to Ukraine “one way or another,” despite it remaining blocked by Hungary, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday.
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[2026-03-20 19:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S. Treasury Department has said Cuba won't be allowed to take delivery of Russian crude, even as the fuel-starved island appears poised to receive two tankers carrying oil and gas.
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[2026-03-20 18:49 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-03-20 18:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-03-20 17:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A pro-Kremlin figure who unexpectedly denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in a social media post this week that went viral has been placed in a psychiatric facility, the hospital said on Thursday.
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[2026-03-20 16:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall during the national celebration of “Defender of the Fatherland Day” in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 23, 2026. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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[2026-03-20 13:51 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea hosted a roundtable in Moscow to discuss ways to advance cultural relations and exchanges with Russia, marking the 35th anniversary of the establishment of their formal bilateral diplomatic relations, the foreign ministry said Friday.
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[2026-03-20 13:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BRUSSELS — Outraged EU leaders rounded on Viktor Orban after the Hungarian nationalist refused to lift his veto on funds for Ukraine's war effort at a Thursday summit, accusing him of a "gross act of disloyalty" tantamount to "blackmail."
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[2026-03-20 13:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Will Australians find themselves in a re-run of the economic pain brought on by Russia-Ukraine war? (ABC News: Chris Lewis)
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[2026-03-20 13:27 UTC+10:00] [Brussels] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A vital US$103 billion lifeline is being held up by Budapest over a dispute involving a war-damaged oil pipeline
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[2026-03-20 11:41 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: €90bn loan has been held up by resistance from Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán; US and Ukrainian negotiators to meet on Saturday. What we know on day 1,486
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[2026-03-20 08:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Yegia Teshyan, coordinator of the Regional and International Relations Cluster at the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Relations at the American University of Beirut, spoke to the editor of Russia in Global Affairs, Fyodor Lukyanov, about the growing risk of a major war in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-20 07:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Pentagon is now prioritizing refilling its own weapon stocks instead of sending them to Ukraine, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has said, blaming the Biden administration for any “challenges” the US military has been facing lately.
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[2026-03-20 07:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An oil and gas price surge is about to hit Europe, Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev has warned, calling the EU’s rejection of Russian energy, “stubborn stupidity.”
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[2026-03-20 06:33 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pahlavi camp downplays China’s mediation, outlines plans to recalibrate ties with Beijing and Moscow in the event of a regime change
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[2026-03-20 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian and US negotiators will meet in the United States on Saturday in a bid to revive stalled talks on Russia's invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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[2026-03-20 05:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has resisted requests by other European leaders to lift his blockade on a vital 90-billion-euro ($103bn) EU loan to Ukraine, leaving the much-needed funding in limbo.
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[2026-03-20 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Nos últimos três anos, os fiéis da República Centro-Africana têm se reunido para celebrar missas ortodoxas russas na pequena paróquia de Saint-André de Bimbo, perto da capital, Bangui.
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[2026-03-20 04:56 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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[2026-03-20 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Russia has condemned an Israeli air strike that injured a TV crew from state-run RT in Lebanon as not “accidental”.
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[2026-03-20 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: EU officials are considering stripping Hungary of its voting rights to push through a controversial loan for Ukraine, after Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened to block it, Politico reports.
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[2026-03-20 02:06 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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[2026-03-20 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The pressure on Russia’s finances has grown so acute that even a sustained surge in oil prices driven by turmoil in the Strait of Hormuz will not be enough to plug the widening deficit.
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[2026-03-20 01:46 UTC+10:00] [R.Politik] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Ilya Remeslo made a career calling out Putin’s critics until an abrupt about-turn saw him denouncing the Russian leader as a ‘war criminal’
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[2026-03-20 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A correspondent and cameraman of the Kremlin-funded news network RT were injured in a missile strike while reporting in southern Lebanon on Thursday.
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[2026-03-19 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Andrei Svintsov, a State Duma lawmaker who in recent months has been the source of ominous headlines about internet restrictions in Russia, was expelled from the far-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-19 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Andrei Svintsov, a State Duma lawmaker who in recent months has been the source of ominous headlines about internet restrictions in Russia, was expelled from the far-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-19 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tehran has effectively acknowledged Ukraine as a legitimate military target. Ibrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission, made this statement in a post on X. The next day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of involvement in the conflict. In diplomatic terms, this indicates that Tehran aligns Kiev’s actions with those of the aggressors: the US and Israel.
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[2026-03-19 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tehran has effectively acknowledged Ukraine as a legitimate military target. Ibrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission, made this statement in a post on X. The next day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of involvement in the conflict. In diplomatic terms, this indicates that Tehran aligns Kiev’s actions with those of the aggressors: the US and Israel.
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[2026-03-19 22:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Hello and welcome to Regions Calling, your guide to developments beyond the Russian capital from The Moscow Times.
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[2026-03-19 21:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: European Union leaders, meeting for a summit in Brussels, have piled pressure on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, accusing him of hijacking and blocking a vital aid package for Ukraine and undermining EU decision-making as Russia’s war on its neighbour is now in its fifth year, with any peace deal remaining elusive.
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[2026-03-19 21:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Gazprom said Thursday that Ukraine attacked energy sites in the southern Krasnodar region linked to the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines, which pass through the Black Sea and carry natural gas to Turkey.
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[2026-03-19 21:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan – The United States’s top intelligence official has placed Pakistan alongside Russia, China, North Korea and Iran as a country whose advancing missile capabilities could eventually put US territory within reach.
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[2026-03-19 21:26 UTC+10:00] [Vladimir Putin] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has vetoed giving Ukraine its promised US$103 billion EU loan until Russian oil supply is resumed
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[2026-03-19 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US will ”massively blow up” Iran’s South Pars gas field if Tehran continues strikes on Qatari energy facilities, President Donald Trump has warned. South Pars – shared with Qatar, where it is known as the North Field – is the world’s largest natural gas field.
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[2026-03-19 20:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An upcoming mayoral runoff in the small French town of Arcis-sur-Aube has drawn global attention due to the unusual surnames of two candidates, which resemble those of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.
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[2026-03-19 20:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for the EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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[2026-03-19 19:56 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Hungarian PM, who is facing an upcoming election, appears in no mood to compromise as EU leaders meet in Brussels this morning
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[2026-03-19 19:27 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Kremlin confirms a halt in negotiations, as Izvestia claims the Middle East crisis could force Ukraine towards territorial compromise
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[2026-03-19 19:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Sánchez announces €1 billion for Ukraine, train delays in Spain triple since 2019, one in three Spanish tenants fear rent rises in near future and more news from Spain on Thursday 19th March.
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