Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-18 07:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 2 jets with 4 crew collided ‘while performing an aerial demonstration’ during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show
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[2026-05-18 07:32 UTC+10:00] [Whidbey Island] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The 2 jets with 4 crew collided ‘while performing an aerial demonstration’ during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show
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[2026-05-18 07:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has convened a meeting with army commanders and called for reinforcement of front-line units on southern border, state media reported Monday.
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[2026-05-18 07:31 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: LIVE, FREE and EXCLUSIVE
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[2026-05-18 07:18 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-05-18 07:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (2nd LD) Trump arrives in Beijing for summit talks with Xi on trade, Iran, Taiwan, other topics
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[2026-05-18 07:09 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-18 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- More than 20,000 Ukrainian children have been deported or forcibly separated from their families amid the prolonged Russia-Ukraine war, envoys from the European Union (EU), Canada and Ukraine to South Korea said, calling on the international community to join hands to address "large-scale and systematic" violations of children's human rights.
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[2026-05-18 06:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A drone hit the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear-power plant Sunday, risking a return to all-out war in the region — as President Trump warned Iran to agree to a peace deal soon or else.
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[2026-05-18 06:45 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Four crew members are safe after incident involving aircraft during weekend air show at military base in western Idaho
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[2026-05-18 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-05-18 06:31 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our live rolling coverage of the war in Iran and the politics around US President Donald Trump this Monday, May 18.
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[2026-05-18 06:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has reiterated his threats against Iran, as negotiations to end the conflict between the two countries continue to flounder.
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[2026-05-18 06:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A series of Israeli air attacks on southern and eastern Lebanon has killed at least five people and injured more than a dozen, according to the Health Ministry.
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[2026-05-18 06:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-05-18 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two United States F-18 military aircraft collided mid-air during an airshow in Idaho on Sunday, local media reported.
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[2026-05-18 05:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Russian capital has just suffered possibly its single biggest and deadliest Ukrainian drone attack of the war - and certainly the largest attack wave on Moscow in the last year. It ironically comes exactly a week after President Zelensky signed on to a three day Russian 'Victory Day' ceasefire at the behest of President Trump.
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[2026-05-18 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Cuba has more than 300 military drones and has discussed using them to attack the southernmost point of the US's continental territory, the US base in Guantanamo Bay, and American ships in the Caribbean, Axios reported on Sunday, citing US intelligence.
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[2026-05-18 05:33 UTC+10:00] [Middle East and north Africa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Abu Dhabi denounces ‘dangerous escalation’ as Iran war ceasefire grows more precarious
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[2026-05-18 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Emergency crews responded Sunday to an incident involving aircraft during a weekend air show at a military base in western Idaho, officials said.
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[2026-05-18 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The wildly popular Brooklyn Storehouse event space announced Friday that it would put on its last show this fall amid a continuous business divorce between its longtime owners.
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[2026-05-18 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Natural Resources
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[2026-05-18 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-05-18 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: After two-and-a-half years of unceasing war, the IDF is short thousands of combat soldiers. It cannot afford to forgo the service of women, whether on the home front or the front line. It cannot afford to forgo the service of religious soldiers in any combat unit. And yet, extremist rabbis are calling for women to be removed from the IDF, or at the very least reassigned to noncombatant roles.
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[2026-05-18 04:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia has condemned the drone strike that sparked a fire near a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, describing the Gulf state as a “brother” country.
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[2026-05-18 04:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mon 18 May 2026 at 4:46am
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[2026-05-18 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: A fragile ceasefire means the Iran conflict is largely a war of words right now — but its impact is still being felt in every corner of the globe.
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[2026-05-18 04:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ABUJA — At least 17 police officers were killed in Nigeria’s northeast Yobe state after suspected Islamist militants attacked a specialised military school that also trains police officers, the national police spokesman said late on Saturday.
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[2026-05-18 04:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israeli forces had targeted and killed the head of Hamas’s “military wing” Izz al-Din al-Haddad, calling him the “chief murderer” and a key figure behind the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
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[2026-05-18 03:55 UTC+10:00] [Israel-Iran war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Na semana passada, observadores assíduos de armas na internet identificaram o que parecia ser um sistema de laser de fabricação chinesa no aeroporto de Dubai, nos Emirados Árabes Unidos. Os lasers estão montados em um veículo e supostamente são capazes de derrubar drones.
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[2026-05-18 03:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The concept of an energy war has long been confined to the strategic manipulation of pipelines or the imposition of economic sanctions. But today, it has mutated into something far more visceral and visible.
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[2026-05-18 03:37 UTC+10:00] [Ebola] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Strain of fatal disease has no vaccine and conflict in DRC makes containing spread difficult as Uganda reports cases
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[2026-05-18 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service will grant access to the files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, after years of rejecting repeated requests by historians who sought to see if the German death camp doctor spent time in Zurich when there was an international arrest warrant against him.
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[2026-05-18 03:23 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-05-18 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has warned Iran the "clock is ticking" as talks to bring the war to an end have stalled.
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[2026-05-18 02:37 UTC+10:00] [Drones] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: A drone strike caused a fire on the perimeter at the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi officials said Sunday.
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[2026-05-18 02:26 UTC+10:00] [Cuba] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Buoyed by his removal of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, the US president is intensifying an economic stranglehold and military menace
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[2026-05-18 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel’s military manpower crisis is expected to deepen unless legislation extending mandatory service advances separately from the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill, as the IDF faces a widening gap between wartime operational needs and the number of soldiers available to meet them.
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[2026-05-18 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: It’s only natural to want to applaud the extension of a ceasefire.
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[2026-05-18 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: On Feb. 3, we first asked whether a Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0 was quietly taking shape on the collapsed, communist-run Caribbean island of Cuba.
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[2026-05-18 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The FBI announced on Thursday that it is offering $200,000 for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of a former active-duty U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist and special agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations who is accused of espionage.
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[2026-05-18 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT — Israel launched a massive series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, despite an extension of the truce between the two countries.
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[2026-05-18 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-05-18 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: OIL and water, being poles apart, may not mix, but politics, oil and migration do.
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[2026-05-18 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates has condemned the drone strike that sparked a fire near the Barakah nuclear power plant in the west of the country, without assigning responsibility.
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[2026-05-18 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: On April 10, 2024, an Army soldier named Samuel J. Meeks stood beneath a gazebo in Green Cove Springs, Florida, smiling for wedding photographs with a Chinese national he had just married. Four days later, federal prosecutors suggested the ceremony was less a union than a $35,000 security breach.
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[2026-05-18 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates is investigating the source of a drone strike which triggered a fire near a nuclear power station, officials have said.
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[2026-05-18 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Since October 7, 2023, Israel has absorbed wave after wave of missiles and rockets from Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and others. Yet in Washington, critics of the US-Israel relationship insist the response to attacks against an American ally is to cut military aid to the Jewish state.
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[2026-05-18 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — One of Ukraine's largest drone strikes on Russia killed at least four people, including three near Moscow, and wounded a dozen others, local authorities said Sunday. Debris fell on Russia's largest airport without causing damage.
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[2026-05-18 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Celtic fans invade the pitch at full time following following the Scottish Premiership soccer match against Heart of Midlothian in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, May 16, 2026. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
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