Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, Friday, May 15, 2026, as he returns from a trip to Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US will no longer resume its "full, large scale" war on Iran on Tuesday, because Gulf leaders have requested Washington to hold off, President Donald Trump has said.
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-05-19 05:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ANKARA, Turkey — Israel's navy intercepted an activist flotilla in international waters off Cyprus on Monday, halting the latest attempt to challenge a naval blockade of Gaza and draw attention to the grim living conditions for Palestinians in the war-battered coastal territory.
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[2026-05-19 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: At a moment the US-Iran ceasefire is officially on life support, and with the world's most critical energy chokepoint remaining blocked while the American consumer is paying the price at the pump, beltway hawks are calling for renewed major military action to 'solve' the standoff.
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said he is holding off a military attack on Iran planned for Tuesday at the request of Gulf states as "serious negotiations are now taking place".
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president said ‘serious negotiations’ are under way but he told the military ‘to be prepared to go forward … on a moment’s notice’
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [Qatar] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president said ‘serious negotiations’ are under way but he told the military ‘to be prepared to go forward … on a moment’s notice’
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[2026-05-19 05:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
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[2026-05-19 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Detective Rick Viggiano dies first, and the war is on.
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[2026-05-19 05:27 UTC+10:00] [Global health] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Deep foreign aid cuts allowed the deadly Ebola virus to spread undetected in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, while ongoing conflict has complicated efforts to build resilient health care services in the region, experts warned Monday.
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[2026-05-19 05:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-05-19 05:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Monday said he had delayed a planned US military strike on Iran after appeals from Gulf leaders, who told him serious negotiations with Tehran were under way.
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[2026-05-19 05:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-05-19 05:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Washington, on return from Beijing where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-19 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing on the budget request for the Department of Defense, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-05-19 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: All four crew members ejected safely after two Navy jets collided Sunday during an air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in western Idaho, officials said.
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[2026-05-19 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 18 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he is not open to any concessions for Iran following Tehran's submission of its latest peace proposal to end the war with the United States, according to a news report.
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[2026-05-19 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As if Pentagon losses in the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran weren't already sapping them enough already, American taxpayers were losers again on Sunday when two U.S. Navy EA18-G Growlers blew up in spectacular fashion after colliding at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. Four crew members ejected and were medically evaluated and said to be in stable condition.
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[2026-05-19 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Activists with the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement and No Harbour for Genocide (NHB) are raising the alarm over what they describe as a "flood" of military supplies from India to Israel, after six shipments of suspected military-grade steel were identified on multiple Swiss vessels en route to weapons factories in Israel.
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[2026-05-19 04:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that the island nation does not seek confrontation, but warned that United States military action against it would result in a “bloodbath”.
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[2026-05-19 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo)
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[2026-05-19 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US treasury secretary said the move would help poorer nations as China would not have the ability to ‘stockpile discounted oil’ from Russia
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[2026-05-19 04:47 UTC+10:00] [Scott Bessent] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US treasury secretary said the move would help poorer nations as China would not have the ability to ‘stockpile discounted oil’ from Russia
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[2026-05-19 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Four English Premier League clubs have treated pro-Palestinian staff and supporters “in ways that may breach the right to freedom of expression and/ or amount to discrimination”, War on Want said on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: It’s getting harder for officials in the Kremlin to cast the war in Ukraine — now in its fifth year — as something so distant that it doesn’t affect the daily routines of Russian civilians.
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[2026-05-19 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed discussed the drone strike targeting UAE's nuclear power plant with the UK Foreign Secretary in a meeting in London on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — China has agreed to ramp up trade for U.S. agricultural products such as beef and poultry, buying at an annualized rate of $17 billion per year for 2026 and at that level for 2027 and 2028, the White House announced Sunday, two days after President Donald Trump returned from a high-stakes summit in Beijing where he sought to ease the impact on American farmers from the trade war he launched last year.
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[2026-05-19 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Military units in Belarus have begun joint training exercises with Russia on nuclear weapons combat, the Belarusian Ministry of Defence has announced.
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[2026-05-19 04:03 UTC+10:00] [India] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Narendra Modi’s austerity appeals reveal how war, energy insecurity and dollar pressures expose the fragility of globalisation
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[2026-05-19 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump has returned stateside and so has his administration's focus, even as the Iran war and the aftermath of his China trip remain front-burner issues.
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[2026-05-19 03:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Is Israel expanding into Gaza despite ceasefire?
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[2026-05-19 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hamas has named Mohammed Ouda as the new leader of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, its military wing, following the assassination of Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, London-based Saudi state-owned outlet Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The UAE and Israel have established a fund to jointly acquire and develop new weapons systems, in the latest sign that the war on Iran is bringing the countries closer together, one current and one former US official briefed on the matter told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-05-19 03:29 UTC+10:00] [Conflict] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said he will extend a temporary pause of U.S. sanctions on Russian oil exports until mid-June.
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[2026-05-19 03:25 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-19 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For Olga Deutsch, some of the most consequential battles of this era are waged far from any frontline. They unfold in newspaper columns, NGO briefings, aid networks, courtrooms, and the language of human rights - places where, she argues, falsehood can travel faster than evidence and accusation can outrun accountability.
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[2026-05-19 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Monday that any US military action against Cuba would lead to a "bloodbath" with incalculable consequences for regional peace and stability.
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[2026-05-19 03:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Undersea internet and data cables in the Strait of Hormuz could be the next casualty of the Iran conflict.
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[2026-05-19 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This photo released by Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev’s official telegram channel shows a house on fire after a Ukrainian attack in Khimki, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, May 17, 2026. (Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev’s official telegram channel via AP)
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[2026-05-19 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: As Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump met, reports emerged that Chinese tankers had been allowed passage through the Strait of Hormuz. (Source photos by AP)
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[2026-05-19 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Belarus said the exercise was not aimed against any other country and did not pose security threats in the region
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[2026-05-19 02:31 UTC+10:00] [Alexander Lukashenko] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Belarus said the exercise was not aimed against any other country and did not pose security threats in the region
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[2026-05-19 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PARIS — Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said on Monday that commercial oil inventories were depleting rapidly, with only a few weeks’ worth left due to the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to shipping.
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[2026-05-19 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan is scrambling to keep channels of diplomacy open between the United States and Iran, amid escalating rhetoric from both sides, and growing signals from Washington that it is prepared to restart attacks that have been on pause since an April 8 ceasefire in the US-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-05-19 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Four English Premier League clubs have treated pro-Palestinian staff and supporters “in ways that may breach the right to freedom of expression and/ or amount to discrimination”, War on Want said on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a squadron of fighter jets, and an air defense system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defense pact, ramping up military cooperation with Riyadh even as Islamabad serves as the main mediator in the Iran war.
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[2026-05-19 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A man collects his family’s belongings from the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike the previous day in the southern village of Maarakeh, Lebanon, Sunday, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mustafa Jamalddine)
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[2026-05-19 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-05-19 01:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US-Israeli war on Iran has already cost businesses throughout the world at least $25 billion, with losses continuing to mount, Reuters reported on Monday, citing an analysis of corporate disclosures from companies listed in the US, Europe and Asia.
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