Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-12 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli soldier who was photographed desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon has reportedly been sentenced to 21 days of military prison, according to Israeli media. The soldier who photographed him was sentenced to 14 days.
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[2026-05-12 00:57 UTC+10:00] [US politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Defense secretary accuses senator of disclosing classified info but Kelly says ‘that’s not classified, it’s a quote from you’
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[2026-05-12 00:54 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Finnish President Alexander Stubb urged Europe on Monday to "calm down and lower the temperature" amid fears of a U.S. military withdrawal from the continent, insisting Washington won't abandon NATO despite its plans to pull troops from Germany.
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[2026-05-12 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON, United Kingdom — Global stock markets diverged while oil prices rose on Monday after US President Donald Trump rejected Iran's terms for ending the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-05-12 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: North Korea has earned an estimated $13 billion over the past three years by providing military assistance to Russia for its war against Ukraine, Nikkei Asia reported Monday, citing South Korean intelligence.
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[2026-05-12 00:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF sentenced a soldier to 21 days in military prison for desecrating a religious Christian symbol in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Monday.
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[2026-05-12 00:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Calbee's change to black-and-white packaging will affect the "Lightly Salted" and "Consomme Punch" lines of potato chips. (Nikkei collage)
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[2026-05-12 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Narendra Modi urges Indians to conserve fuel amid war on Iran
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[2026-05-12 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s shipyards secured a staggering 85 per cent of global orders in the first quarter, as demand for oil tankers surges amid the Iran war
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[2026-05-12 00:30 UTC+10:00] [United States] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s shipyards secured a staggering 85 per cent of global orders in the first quarter, as demand for oil tankers surges amid the Iran war
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[2026-05-12 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The ICC confirmed the warrant had been confidentially issued last November and kept under seal
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[2026-05-12 00:22 UTC+10:00] [National Bureau of Investigation] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The ICC confirmed the warrant had been confidentially issued last November and kept under seal
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[2026-05-12 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military said Monday that two soldiers will spend weeks in military prison for the desecration of a Christian statue in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-11 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian family has described how Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank forced them to exhume the newly buried grave of an elderly relative, claiming it was too close to a settlement recently authorized by Israel’s government.
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[2026-05-11 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As DB's Jim Reid tallies overnight, it has now been 73 days since the war in Iran began, with the past 32 marked by a stalemate characterized by a mix of truce and ongoing ceasefire. The absence of any meaningful kinetic activity for over a month suggests a firm US preference for reaching a deal.
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[2026-05-11 23:34 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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[2026-05-11 23:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON, United Kingdom — Britain on Monday announced new sanctions targeting Russia's "information warfare campaigns" over its full-scale Ukraine invasion, alongside those behind the alleged forced deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children.
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[2026-05-11 23:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran's eyes and ears in Yemen – the Houthis – have been working diligently to expand their weapons cache, amassing new equipment that poses a “direct threat” to shipping, critical infrastructure and the wider region, experts have said.
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[2026-05-11 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has ordered the country’s forces to continue military operations against the US and Israel, according to a report by Iranian public broadcaster IRIB released Sunday.
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[2026-05-11 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Donald Trump is set to touch down in Beijing, China, on Wednesday for a two-day state visit – the first by a US president in eight years – as relations between the world’s two largest economies teeter at a crossroads defined by the Iran war, trade friction, and technological rivalry.
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[2026-05-11 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s response to his latest peace proposal to end the war, which has upended the global economy.
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[2026-05-11 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Left-wingers and liberals in Israel who object – absolutely or partially – to Jewish settlement in territories occupied by Israel in the course of the 1967 Six Day War, or during the recent war in the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, are frequently accused by the Israeli Right of no longer being Zionists, or – worse still – of being anti-Zionists.
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[2026-05-11 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As the United States government and defence companies face long backlogs in delivering weapons to their clients, Gulf and Arab states are increasingly signing deals to buy or invest in Turkish arms.
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[2026-05-11 22:45 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-11 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Members of the British Army have parachuted onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha to help a British national with suspected hantavirus.
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[2026-05-11 22:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US equity futures are off a touch as the US/IranIran failed to consummate a deal, which is boosting Energy commodities and bond yields. Still, stocks have withstood the resulting increase in oil prices and higher bond yields as the market remains focused on the memory/semi stock bubble. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures are down fractionally as Trump and Iran rejected each other’s latest peace proposals to end the 10-week conflict as the two sides struggle to
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[2026-05-11 22:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, right, speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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[2026-05-11 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A worker clear rubble with an excavator as a police officer and local residents gather at the site of overnight suicide bombing at a security post in Fatah Khel, in Bannu, a district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Aamad Khattak)
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[2026-05-11 22:02 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: It will be the first time a US president has visited China in nearly a decade, with the last visit being Trump in 2017
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[2026-05-11 21:59 UTC+10:00] [Baltics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds has resigned after Ukrainian drones flew into the country's airspace from Russia last week and hit an oil storage facility, the latest defense leadership change on NATO's eastern flank in recent months.
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[2026-05-11 21:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The European Council has terminated the partial suspension of a cooperation agreement with Syria, thereby restoring fuller trade ties with the country as it seeks to emerge from nearly 14 years of war.
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[2026-05-11 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: What is the state of Israel’s economy after nearly three years of war? As Israel increases its defense budget, weans itself off US aid, and halts the hiring of most Palestinian workers, can its industries continue to survive and thrive?
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[2026-05-11 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For more news, analysis, and the latest updates, head to jpost.com.
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[2026-05-11 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Day 72 of the U.S.-Iran conflict opened with yet another failed diplomatic off-ramp.
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[2026-05-11 21:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Prince Turki al-Faisal, a senior Saudi royal, has said that the Gulf kingdom refused to get plunged into “an Israeli plan to ignite war between us and Iran”.
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[2026-05-11 21:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An Israel Air Force helicopter failed to take off after landing to evacuate three wounded soldiers in southern Lebanon on Monday morning, the IDF said later in the afternoon.
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[2026-05-11 21:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces killed three Palestinians over the past 24 hours in Gaza, including two police officers, in the latest violation of a ceasefire deal signed in October.
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[2026-05-11 21:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces killed three Palestinians over the past 24 hours in Gaza, including two police officers, in the latest violation of a ceasefire deal signed in October.
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[2026-05-11 21:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BANGKOK — Asia’s first defenses against energy shocks from the Iran war are running short and a more consequential second wave of impacts is beginning to hit.
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[2026-05-11 20:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump is heading back to China, but this time, the Iran war raises the stakes for both sides. China is the bigger purchaser of Iranian oil. Trump had hoped China would do more to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. (AP Video: Nathan Ellgren)
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[2026-05-11 20:42 UTC+10:00] [Breaking News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has accused the United States of presenting “unreasonable” and “one-sided” demands in negotiations aimed at ending the war, as the two sides maintain a fragile ceasefire.
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[2026-05-11 20:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted at the use of American soldiers on the ground in Iran, as he declared that the conflict was "not over".
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[2026-05-11 20:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States-Israel war on Iran is not the result of a sudden escalation but the culmination of a long-term Israeli agenda to violently reshape the Middle East, former Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani tells Al Jazeera.
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[2026-05-11 20:32 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: EU’s foreign policy chief and the ex-Estonian PM dismiss Putin’s suggestion that former German chancellor could coordinate talks
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[2026-05-11 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has accused the United States of presenting “unreasonable” and “one-sided” demands in negotiations aimed at ending the war, as the two sides maintain a fragile ceasefire.
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[2026-05-11 20:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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[2026-05-11 20:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military has deployed more troops to Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where a raid is ongoing after a Palestinian man opened fire on Israeli border police.
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[2026-05-11 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A painting stolen from a Jewish art collector by the Nazis during World War Two has been found in the home of descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator, an art detective has said.
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[2026-05-11 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Hong Kong has become a critical financial and logistical lifeline for Iran’s regime — helping move illicit oil, weapons technology and surveillance tools that fuel Tehran’s military machine and domestic repression, according to a bombshell report set for release Monday.
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[2026-05-11 19:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: One of the main challenges that IDF combat soldiers face is not on the battlefield, but in reestablishing themselves and reintegration back into civilian life, and an organization aiding them in that process is seeking, next week, the aid of the American Jewish Diaspora in this mission. The NGO Gav Lalochem (Backing Warriors) is touring in the US starting on Tuesday, hoping that the US Jews will join them in providing support to combat soldiers who are wounded, suffering businesses,
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