Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-21 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Fuel surcharges and price rises stemming from the Middle East conflict are affecting every facet of residential construction, pushing builders to the brink and driving up inflation. We look at what's going up and by how much.
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[2026-05-21 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-21 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Three regional sources told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that progress has been made in recent efforts to formulate a “memorandum of understanding and principles” between the US and Iran, though significant gaps remain.
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[2026-05-21 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: At least 12 people – 11 from the same family, including five children – were killed in an Israeli air strike on south Lebanon overnight, as direct talks between the countries showed no sign of ending the conflict soon.
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[2026-05-21 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Two Russian jets have “repeatedly and dangerously” intercepted a British Royal Air Force surveillance aircraft in April over the Black Sea, according to the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence.
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[2026-05-21 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A majority of Federal Reserve officials at their most recent meeting anticipated that interest rate increases would be necessary if the Iran war continued to aggravate inflation, according to minutes released Wednesday.Though the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee again voted to keep its benchmark rate targeted between 3.5%-3.75%, the meeting featured four "no" votes, the most since 1992, and an apparently heightened level of disagreement about where policy should go.At issue was the impact that the Iran war would have
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[2026-05-21 03:51 UTC+10:00] [Ebola] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Conflict and aid cuts are hampering the fight against an outbreak of the deadly virus centred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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[2026-05-21 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday during his first public visit to the Knesset in years since leaving politics, saying that Netanyahu’s coalition was harming the IDF by encouraging draft evasion and not providing the military with more soldiers amid its manpower crisis.
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[2026-05-21 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates has built nearly 50% of a second pipeline that will bypass the Strait of Hormuz, said the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., or ADNOC, on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-21 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Cargo ships are seen at sea in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, as viewed from a rocky shoreline near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Friday, May 1, 2026.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
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[2026-05-21 03:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-21 03:10 UTC+10:00] [Israel-Gaza War (2023- )] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: A video released on Wednesday shows Israel’s far-right national security minister taunting detained pro-Palestinian activists while they are handcuffed and bent over on the deck of a ship. The images drew outrage both at home and abroad.
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[2026-05-21 03:00 UTC+10:00] [Royal Air Force] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: UK calls incident ‘unacceptable’ after Su-27 jet comes within six metres of unarmed RAF plane over Black Sea
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[2026-05-21 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Google's AI lab DeepMind said Wednesday it had declined to recognize unions established by UK employees concerned about the military uses of its technology, but offered to enter into negotiations instead.
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[2026-05-21 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: A tanker carrying crude oil from the United Arab Emirates is believed to have transited the Strait of Hormuz with its Automatic Identification System transponder turned off. © Reuters
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[2026-05-21 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump arrives for the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Conn., Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-21 02:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Grateful university students have told of their joy after returning to the UAE to take part in an emotional graduation ceremony more than two months after their campus closed due to the Iran war.
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[2026-05-21 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN — Iran warned on Wednesday that the war in the Middle East would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks, after US President Donald Trump threatened to strike again unless a deal is reached.
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[2026-05-21 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN — Iran warned on Wednesday that the war in the Middle East would spread far beyond the region if the United States and Israel resumed their attacks, after US President Donald Trump threatened to strike again unless a deal is reached.
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[2026-05-21 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. crude oil prices fell more than 4% on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said talks with Iran are in the final stages.
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[2026-05-21 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Oil prices fell about 5 per cent on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump's claimed that the Iran war would end “very quickly”.
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[2026-05-21 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Before Israel launched its war on Gaza in 2023, which has been recognised as a genocide by the United Nations, genocide scholars and human rights groups, at least 3,000 Palestinians from Gaza travelled annually to perform the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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[2026-05-21 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Two Russian warplanes "repeatedly and dangerously" intercepted an unarmed RAF spy plane over the Black Sea last month, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.
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[2026-05-21 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: At least eight people have been killed in Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, in the latest violation of an ongoing “ceasefire” agreement, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA).
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[2026-05-21 01:38 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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[2026-05-21 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The US military has been publicly broadcasting the location of military surveillance flights near Cuba on plane-tracking websites, as Washington continues to exert pressure on the island's communist leadership.
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[2026-05-21 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Finnish authorities plan to deport an anti-war Russian man on May 28 after his asylum appeals were rejected, the exiled broadcaster TV Rain reported Wednesday, citing an exiled politician from St. Petersburg familiar with his case.
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[2026-05-21 01:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military said two officers and one soldier were wounded in a drone strike in southern Lebanon that it blamed on Hezbollah.
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[2026-05-21 01:25 UTC+10:00] [Conflict] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: GENEVA — Marco Rubio’s comments on Ebola show he doesn’t understand what the World Health Organization does, the agency’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested Wednesday.
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[2026-05-21 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-21 00:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL — A South Korean oil tanker safely transited the Strait of Hormuz, the country's foreign ministry said Wednesday, marking the first passage by a South Korean vessel through the waterway since the Iran war began.
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[2026-05-21 00:47 UTC+10:00] [Conflict of interest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — Dominique de Villepin, a former French prime minister expected to run in next year’s presidential election, is being investigated over gifts he received while serving as foreign minister, the country’s top financial prosecutor said Wednesday.
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[2026-05-21 00:46 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenSan Diego, US People attend a vigil in a park the day after a fatal mosque shooting in southern CaliforniaPhotograph: Daniel Cole/ReutersShareView image in fullscreenKonotop, Ukraine A rescue worker clears debris from a damaged residential building after Russia carried out a large overnight attack in the Sumy regionPhotograph: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenBureij, GazaA Palestinian man hold his head after an Israeli strike on a house in a refugee camp.
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[2026-05-21 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON, United Kingdom — Oil prices slid and stock markets advanced Wednesday as Iran said it had allowed around two dozen ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, easing concerns about the apparent impasse on ending the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-05-21 00:41 UTC+10:00] [Google] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments’ use of AI for defence and intelligence
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[2026-05-21 00:40 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Airstrike at the start of the war was aimed at freeing populist ex-president from house arrest, US newspaper claims
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[2026-05-21 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Oil futures are down bigly this morning following comments from President Trump that the war in Iran would be ended "very quickly," but investors remained uncertain about the potential for de-escalation.
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[2026-05-21 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, on Wednesday said a drone strike on the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in Abu Dhabi was a “dangerous escalation”.
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[2026-05-21 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned that the US's "overt and covert movements show that it is seeking a new round of war".
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[2026-05-21 00:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Police use a water cannon to disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking a street during a protest against army recruitment in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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[2026-05-21 00:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The UK has rolled back some sanctions on Russian oil, allowing imports of diesel and jet fuel made from Russian crude in third countries, as households and airlines grapple with a fuel price crisis driven by conflict in the Middle East.
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[2026-05-21 00:02 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Former prime minister Paul Keating has accused investors criticising the capital gains tax overhaul of pure greed, leaping to Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ defence as NSW Premier Chris Minns admonished his federal allies for failing to provide bigger income tax cuts.
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[2026-05-21 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Days after Xi-Trump talks, Beijing and Moscow slam Washington’s military provocations and its plans for missile defence system
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[2026-05-21 00:00 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Days after Xi-Trump talks, Beijing and Moscow slam Washington’s military provocations and its plans for missile defence system
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[2026-05-20 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Iris Lebedeva, director Andrey Zvyagintsev and Dmitriy Mazurov pose for photographers at the photo call for the film Minotaur’ at the 79th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (Photo by Millie Turner/Invision/AP)
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[2026-05-20 23:43 UTC+10:00] [Lithuania] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Vilnius residents urged to take shelter during alert, after Nato and EU warn that Russia is diverting Ukraine’s drones
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[2026-05-20 23:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-05-20 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump postponed a planned attack on Iran this week after being warned by Gulf allies and his own officials not to resume the war during the Hajj pilgrimage, Middle East Eye can reveal.
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[2026-05-20 23:21 UTC+10:00] [EU-US military ties] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: NATO chief Mark Rutte on Wednesday played down Donald Trump's sudden moves to pull troops and capabilities out of Europe, vowing any reductions would take place in a "structured way."
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[2026-05-20 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Last weekend, my IDF Palmar medical evacuation team and I were treating and extracting two soldiers from Lebanon. One, Capt. Maoz Yisrael Recanati (24), did not make it, killed a month before his wedding; the other did, but will need a lot of surgeries.
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