Topic: Ukraine/Russia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-18 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday that the bloc will help repair a damaged pipeline that pumps Russian oil through Ukraine to Hungary, coming after tensions between Hungary and Ukraine escalated over delays in restoring flows.
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[2026-03-18 02:06 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: He had IRGC’s trust while having his differences with hardliners and had huge sway with likes of China and Russia
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[2026-03-18 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — This was a trainwreck.
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[2026-03-18 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s FSB security service has arrested the health minister of the southern Krasnodar region on suspicion of fraud, the state-run news agency TASS reported Tuesday.
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[2026-03-18 01:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: European Council President Antonio Costa has rebuked Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky over a recent threat directed at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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[2026-03-18 01:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: European Council President Antonio Costa has rebuked Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky over a recent threat directed at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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[2026-03-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Increased use of Arctic shipping route among topics covered at inaugural China-Russia Logistics Business Forum
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[2026-03-18 00:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia has quietly stepped up its intelligence operations in Vienna, taking advantage of legal loopholes and Austria’s neutrality to expand what Western officials describe as one of its largest covert signals intelligence platforms in the West, the Financial Times reported.
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[2026-03-18 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A general view of a pumping station at the end of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the east German refinery PCK in Schwedt, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, File)
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[2026-03-18 00:28 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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[2026-03-18 00:28 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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[2026-03-17 23:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The Kremlin said Tuesday that Moscow remains committed to helping authorities in Havana after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed he could do “anything I want” with Cuba after a U.S.-imposed oil blockade plunged the island nation into darkness.
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[2026-03-17 22:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Moldova’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Russia’s ambassador to Chisinau after a strike on a hydroelectric plant in western Ukraine earlier this month allegedly contaminated the Dnister River, which flows through both countries.
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[2026-03-17 22:52 UTC+10:00] [Music] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Born in Russia and raised in Israel, Ocher rejected the IDF draft for a life in Germany. As she releases an album inspired by the Weimar period, she discusses nationalism, AI and the future of humanity
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[2026-03-17 22:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sappers examine the site of a Russian missile strike which hit a post office storehouse in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
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[2026-03-17 19:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Zelensky to visit Spain for talks with PM Sánchez, Spanish king acknowledges 'much abuse' during Conquest, Storm Therese to batter southern Spain, and more news this Tuesday March 17th.
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[2026-03-17 17:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Libraries, Museums and Galleries
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[2026-03-17 15:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Thailand is discussing with Russia the possibility of purchasing crude oil as supplies tighten amid the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran, the country’s foreign minister said.
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[2026-03-17 14:43 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Russia has taken control of 12 settlements in Ukraine in the first two weeks of March as part of advances along the front line in eastern and southern Ukraine, Russian state-run news agencies quoted top Gen. Valery Gerasimov as saying Monday.
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[2026-03-17 14:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s ambassador to Moscow, Kazem Jalili, said Tehran will seek reparations from the United States and Israel over a deadly attack on a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab.
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[2026-03-17 12:30 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Underground car parks and subways are being repurposed as Tokyo warns of the most severe security threat since the second world war
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[2026-03-17 11:48 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: No more Kenyans to be enlisted by Moscow; Starmer warns against fossil fuel ‘windfall for Putin’ during war on Iran. What we know on day 1,483
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[2026-03-17 11:39 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected a memorial museum under construction to commemorate North Korean troops dispatched to support Russia in its war with Ukraine, state media said Tuesday, with the museum expected to open as early as next month.
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[2026-03-17 10:15 UTC+10:00] [actor] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: At a viewing of his paintings at the University of Hong Kong, the actor talks about his art and about bringing Hong Kong filmmakers to America
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[2026-03-17 05:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Dmitry Trenin, a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
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[2026-03-17 05:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Dmitry Trenin, a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
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[2026-03-17 05:26 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: As the war in Iran enters its third week, one major beneficiary has emerged.It's not US President Donald Trump, who is facing meagre-at-best support for the conflict at home, and who repeatedly claims the war is "won" while at the same time asking allies and even China to help get crucial commodities moving.It's not Iran, which has launched hundreds of missiles and thousands of drones to cause global economic chaos but has had its supreme leader assassinated, other senior officials
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[2026-03-17 05:24 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘We cannot allow the war in the Gulf to turn into a windfall for Putin,’ Starmer said ahead of Tuesday’s meeting in London
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[2026-03-17 04:32 UTC+10:00] [Volodymyr Zelensky] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Penn, a vocal advocate for Ukraine who has visited the country several times, co-directed a 2023 documentary about the Ukrainian president
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[2026-03-17 04:14 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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[2026-03-17 04:14 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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[2026-03-17 03:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russians’ psychological well-being has worsened as financial anxiety grows and hopes for a quick end to the war in Ukraine fade, according to a February survey by the Russian Academy of Sciences’ (RAS) Institute of Psychology.
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[2026-03-17 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Mar 16, 2026 - 07:11 pm Russia finished third in the medal standings at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Italy after its athletes won eight gold medals, along with one silver and three bronze. A total of six Russian athletes competed at the Milan-Cortina Games, taking part under their national flag and anthem for the first time since 2014, when Russia was barred from international competition over a doping scandal.
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[2026-03-17 03:05 UTC+10:00] [Oscars 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The One Battle After Another star’s failure to collect his best supporting actor award – because he was visiting Ukraine – only serves to burnish his reputation
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[2026-03-17 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In the first year of Russia’s full‑scale invasion, I argued that the under‑noticed defence inventories of the so‑called Global South still held Soviet‑legacy systems and calibres that could be repurposed for Ukraine’s immediate defence - less a grand strategy than a stopgap for force generation while western industry caught up.
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[2026-03-17 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — Sean Penn, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor for "One Battle After Another" on Sunday, is in Ukraine to show support to the war-torn country.
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[2026-03-17 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Kenya says Russia has agreed to stop accepting Kenyan nationals into its military after concerns that hundreds of citizens had been drawn into the war in Ukraine.
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[2026-03-17 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungary will continue to oppose an EU bailout for Ukraine until Kiev resumes Russian oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday in Brussels.
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[2026-03-17 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungary will continue to oppose an EU bailout for Ukraine until Kiev resumes Russian oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday in Brussels.
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[2026-03-17 01:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Let’s say you decided to become a writer or musician in Russia in 2026. If you hope that your book or album will be accepted by a publisher or label for release, distribution and promotion, the result of your creative work must meet certain criteria.
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[2026-03-17 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungary is set to sign a deal with neighboring Slovakia on building a new bilateral oil pipeline, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has announced. Budapest and Bratislava have been caught in an escalating feud with Ukraine and the EU over Russian oil deliveries being blocked by Kiev.
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[2026-03-17 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Hungary is set to sign a deal with neighboring Slovakia on building a new bilateral oil pipeline, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has announced. Budapest and Bratislava have been caught in an escalating feud with Ukraine and the EU over Russian oil deliveries being blocked by Kiev.
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[2026-03-17 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia has agreed to stop recruiting Kenyan citizens to fight with its army in Ukraine, Kenya’s foreign minister said Monday after talks with his Russian counterpart in Moscow.
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[2026-03-17 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia has agreed to stop recruiting Kenyan citizens to fight with its army in Ukraine, Kenya’s foreign minister has said.
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[2026-03-17 00:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: People across Russia began reporting problems accessing Telegram over the weekend, raising speculation among tech industry experts that the government may have already moved to block the messaging app ahead of an anticipated crackdown next month.
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[2026-03-17 00:30 UTC+10:00] [Wang Ting-yu] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Expensive missiles cannot stop large waves of rockets and drones in an armed conflict, officials on the self-ruled island warn
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[2026-03-17 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ridiculed an initiative launched by Kiev’s EU backers to restart Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline, calling it “blackmail.”
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[2026-03-17 00:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ridiculed an initiative launched by Kiev’s EU backers to restart Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline, calling it “blackmail.”
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[2026-03-16 23:54 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Prosecutors say Martin Ryan passed on secrets about Azerbaijan, as well as Russian and Chinese firms, to the French security service
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[2026-03-16 21:42 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: North Korea is estimated to have earned up to $14.4 billion from its troop deployment to the Russia-Ukraine war and arms exports to Russia, a report showed Monday.
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