Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-25 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir delivered separate statements on Monday evening after the discovery of the Altalena, the ship sunk off Israel’s coast during the War of Independence, with the event overshadowed by a dispute between the two coalition partners over credit for the discovery.
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[2026-08-25 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli military vehicles raided the village of Saida al-Golan in Syria’s Quneitra governorate on Monday, according to Syrian news channel Al Akbhariya.
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[2026-08-25 04:57 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Washington launches campaign to isolate Tehran but it is unclear whether it will apply measures to China
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[2026-08-25 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Palestinians try to extinguish a fire in the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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[2026-08-25 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russia just pulled its ambassador to the UK, as British Prime Minister Andy Burnham doubles down on open involvement in the Ukraine conflict. The risk of open war has never been higher, but Burnham is writing checks that he can’t cash.
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[2026-08-25 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russia just pulled its ambassador to the UK, as British Prime Minister Andy Burnham doubles down on open involvement in the Ukraine conflict. The risk of open war has never been higher, but Burnham is writing checks that he can’t cash.
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[2026-08-25 04:16 UTC+10:00] [Defence policy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructure
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[2026-08-25 03:53 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Moscow hopes western politics will weaken support for Kyiv. The UK and Europe’s answer should be to make Ukraine increasingly capable of defending itself alone
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[2026-08-25 03:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has announced a 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks and auto parts starting next year, escalating a bitter trade war with Ottawa after negotiations collapsed last week.
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[2026-08-25 03:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has announced a 50% tariff on Canadian cars, trucks and auto parts starting next year, escalating a bitter trade war with Ottawa after negotiations collapsed last week.
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[2026-08-25 03:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US threats to impose "the toughest sanctions in history" to force Iran to buckle to its demands after nearly six months of war have raised the prospect of a new round of escalation in the Gulf.
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[2026-08-25 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan's army chief, visited Iran on Monday as Islamabad seeks to revive talks between Tehran and Washington.
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[2026-08-25 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran tried to assassinate the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the PM said during a phone call with Channel 14's military correspondent Noam Amir, broadcast on Monday.
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[2026-08-25 02:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UN humanitarian chief heavily criticised the international community on Monday for failing Sudan, as civilian deaths mount and aid operations face severe funding shortages.
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[2026-08-25 02:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army launched a new wave of attacks on Monday, targeting the outskirts of the villages of Ainatha and Haddatha in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported.
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[2026-08-25 02:33 UTC+10:00] [Andy Burnham] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As well as pledging military help and diplomatic backing, the prime minister could be useful in dealing with the US
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[2026-08-25 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A mission to verify the ceasefire between the Congolese army and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels got underway on Monday in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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[2026-08-25 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: There's a popular expression on Wall Street: KISS, which stands for, Keep It Simple, Stupid. Amid a torrent of complicated cross currents, it might present the best approach to trading this week's news.
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[2026-08-25 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US on Monday was expected to broaden the scope of secondary sanctions on firms and countries that do business with Iran, as Washington seeks to isolate the regime's economy in an effort to break the deadlock in the war.
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[2026-08-25 01:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy who betrayed the United States, has called on Israel to prepare for war against Egypt and Turkey as he launches his campaign for a Knesset seat in October’s election.
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[2026-08-25 01:56 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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[2026-08-25 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy who betrayed the United States, has called on Israel to prepare for war against Egypt and Turkey as he launches his campaign for a Knesset seat in October’s election.
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[2026-08-25 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A new report by the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), supported by Progressive International (PI), argues that Israel has a documented history of systematic sexualized and gendered violence against Palestinians “across detention centers, homes, military operations, and systems of surveillance, from the Nakba of 1948 to the present.”
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[2026-08-25 01:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Uganda and Burundi have held talks in Israel about contributing troops to a proposed international security force for Gaza, as efforts to build the 20,000-strong mission gather pace. Uganda has approved about 1,200 personnel, while Burundi is still considering its participation.
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[2026-08-25 01:27 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — Ukraine faces a €23 billion hole in its defense budget this year, leaving Kyiv scrambling for cash to fight Russia even as Western leaders gathered in the capital to mark the country's independence day and pledge ongoing support.
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[2026-08-25 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Former Pussy Riot member Rita Flores has revealed that she was coerced into working as an informant for Russia’s FSB security service, saying that she gathered information on anti-war activists and was involved in a failed assassination plot against an exiled Kremlin critic.
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[2026-08-25 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Yemen's Houthis on Monday targeted the Saudi oil tanker Amzan in the Red Sea off Yanbu with a ballistic missile and drones, the Iran-aligned militant group announced.
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[2026-08-25 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United Kingdom is set to share classified weapons information with Ukraine to enable it to produce its own version of the Storm Shadow long-range cruise missile, designed jointly with France, as Prime Minister Andy Burnham visits Kyiv on his first foreign trip as the UK’s prime minister.
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[2026-08-25 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The UK has handed secret blueprints to Ukraine that will allow the country to build its own long-range cruise missiles.
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[2026-08-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing has ramped up its law-enforcement and survey operations around island since Tokyo and Manila announced boundary talks
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[2026-08-25 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Chinese mainland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing has ramped up its law-enforcement and survey operations around island since Tokyo and Manila announced boundary talks
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[2026-08-25 00:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Jordan and China called for a negotiated end to the US-Iran war that addresses the “root causes” of the conflict after King Abdullah met President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday.
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[2026-08-25 00:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham, center, appears also on a giant screen, left, as National Guard of Ukraine and European leaders attend a commemorative ceremony marking Ukraine’s 35th Independence Day outside St. Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-08-25 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ukrainian war veteran Evheny Lakhnenko puts on his goggles during a sporting event to encourage people and injured soldiers to do sports in a lake at on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, during the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence Day. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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[2026-08-24 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. will raise tariffs on imports of cars, trucks and auto parts from Canada to 50% on Jan. 1, 2027, following a breakdown in trade negotiations last week.
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[2026-08-24 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The two sides also criticised Israel’s ‘dangerous escalatory actions’ following King Abdullah’s meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing
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[2026-08-24 23:48 UTC+10:00] [Jordan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The two sides also criticised Israel’s ‘dangerous escalatory actions’ following King Abdullah’s meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing
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[2026-08-24 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF's pre-October 7 conceptzia (military mentality of containment) is still prevalent across the military, the October Council warned in a report released on Monday.
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[2026-08-24 23:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — European leaders joined President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Monday for celebrations marking the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence Day as Russia pressed on with its 4-year-old invasion of the country.
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[2026-08-24 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Recent deadly Russian attack waves on Ukrainian cities - especially the capital - have prompted France to announce it will be speeding up deliveries of anti-air defense missiles to the Ukrainian armed forces.
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[2026-08-24 23:16 UTC+10:00] [Film] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the two Israeli co-directors of No Other Land, investigates ‘Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians’ during the war
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[2026-08-24 23:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Ukraine and Russia exchanged 10 prisoners of war each, officials in Kyiv and Belarusian state media announced Monday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling the swap a “special stage” of ongoing prisoner exchanges with Moscow.
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[2026-08-24 23:00 UTC+10:00] [United States Defense and Military Forces] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: The U.S. military killed two men in a strike against a boat in the eastern Pacific that it said was transporting narcotics, U.S. Southern Command announced early Monday. It was the first such strike by the military since June 21.
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[2026-08-24 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Military authorities in Chad have accused Sudan of launching drone strikes against a convoy inside Chadian territory.
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[2026-08-24 22:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Ukraine alleges that the Kremlin is on the brink of mobilizing another 300,000 troops later this year in order to make up for significant battlefield losses.
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[2026-08-24 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz has exposed an uncomfortable truth about modern warfare: a military can destroy much of an adversary’s force, achieve overwhelming air superiority and strike thousands of targets, yet still fail to control the geography that gives the adversary strategic leverage.
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[2026-08-24 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: DAMASCUS - An Israeli drone struck a car near Beit Jinn on August 22, injuring a Syrian man identified in local reports as Ammar Saeed Hamada, as Israel pressed military operations in southern Syria that it says are needed to stop attacks on its territory.
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[2026-08-24 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli missile and suicide drone company UVision Air and US defense technology company Mistral have won another contract from the US Army to supply Hero 120 suicide drones. The order is worth $50 million. The Hero 120 has a maximum range of about 40 to 60 kilometers and its duration of operation is about an hour.
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[2026-08-24 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Lebanese security officials believe that the extensive Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon in recent days are not merely localized operations but are intended to lay the groundwork for a broader military campaign, Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.
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[2026-08-24 22:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: South Korea says the United States has cancelled a large joint amphibious landing exercise scheduled for next month due to constraints on force availability caused by the US-Israel war on Iran.
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