Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-04 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An Iranian tugboat floats in the foreground as cargo ships sit at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, May 4, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)
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[2026-05-04 23:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: At least five people have been killed and 18 wounded in a Russian missile attack on the town of Merefa in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, local officials say.
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[2026-05-04 23:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s top commander in the occupied West Bank has said the army is killing Palestinians at levels “not seen since 1967”, according to Haaretz.
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[2026-05-04 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A top White House official has said Iran is on the brink of an “extreme calamity” and hunger as the US is counting on economic pressure to secure its objectives in the conflict.
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[2026-05-04 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A top White House official has said Iran is on the brink of an “extreme calamity” and hunger as the US is counting on economic pressure to secure its objectives in the conflict.
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[2026-05-04 23:30 UTC+10:00] [Music] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ‘The man is the establishment, I suppose, the military industrial complex. A few year later, when we played it live, we added a loop of Bill Hicks saying: “All governments are liars and murderers”’
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[2026-05-04 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As diplomats convene in New York from 27 April to 22 May for the latest session of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference, its credibility is under unprecedented strain, Former Chief of Iran's National Security and Foreign Relations Committee Seyed Hossein Mousavian writes for Middle East Eye.
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[2026-05-04 23:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Red Sox sound about as hopeless as any team in baseball right now as the locker room begins to turn on each other.
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[2026-05-04 23:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PARIS, France — World officials pushed Monday for faster action to reduce methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector, arguing it would both help slow climate change and boost energy security as the Middle East war chokes off supply.
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[2026-05-04 23:26 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-05-04 23:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed 20 people on Sunday, Lebanon's health ministry says - marking one of the deadliest few days there since a ceasefire began just over two weeks ago.
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[2026-05-04 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s top commander in the occupied West Bank has said the army is killing Palestinians at levels “not seen since 1967”, according to Haaretz.
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[2026-05-04 23:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran says it fired missiles at US warship to prevent it entering Hormuz
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[2026-05-04 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has said Washington will guide ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz to safety – in an initiative dubbed “Project Freedom” – signalling a potential challenge to Iran’s blockade of the strategic waterway.
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[2026-05-04 23:08 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: WASHINGTON - Two US commercial ships have successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz, US Central Command said Monday, as it is supporting an operation to restore freedom of navigation through the crucial waterway.
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[2026-05-04 23:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. Central Command on Monday denied claims from Iranian state media that a U.S. warship transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by two missiles and forced to retreat.
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[2026-05-04 23:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Sectarian tension in Lebanon has further degenerated after a video depicting Hezbollah as characters from the Angry Birds video game prompted online posts attacking the leader of the country's Maronite Church.
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[2026-05-04 23:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 4 (Yonhap) -- Two U.S. commercial ships have successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday, as it is supporting an operation to restore freedom of navigation through the crucial waterway.
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[2026-05-04 22:58 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-05-04 22:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Military forces from the Philippines, the United States, and Japan conduct high-intensity Counter-Landing Live Fire Exercise on May 4, 2026, at the La Paz Sand Dunes in Laoag, Ilocos Norte. The joint maneuvers, featured a massive display of integrated firepower including HIMARS rocket systems, Apache Longbow attack helicopters, and 105mm howitzers.
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[2026-05-04 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Global economies could be "sleepwalking" into a "big recession", as investors continue to underplay the impact of the oil price shock, Amrita Sen, founder and director, market intelligence at Energy Aspect, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Monday.
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[2026-05-04 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Iran said on Monday that ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz must coordinate with Iranian authorities, after the United States announced an effort to open the strait.
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[2026-05-04 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Poland is bracing for a surge of illegal weapons from Ukraine after the end of the conflict with Russia, with police warning that a “smuggling boom” could eclipse the decades-long Balkan weapons crisis, a law enforcement official told Rzeczpospolita.
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[2026-05-04 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Poland is bracing for a surge of illegal weapons from Ukraine after the end of the conflict with Russia, with police warning that a “smuggling boom” could eclipse the decades-long Balkan weapons crisis, a law enforcement official told Rzeczpospolita.
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[2026-05-04 22:43 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Hangings are latest in wave of near-daily killings as authorities seek to instil fear amid war with US and Israel
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[2026-05-04 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US futures whipsawed and crude oil spiked higher as tensions flared up again in the Middle East, taking the focus off a run of strong earnings by megacap tech companies. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.2% from Friday's record highs, falling as much as 0.5% just minutes earlier after Iran’s Fars agency claimed two missiles hit an American patrol boat, before erasing most of the declines after the US denied a ship was hit.
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[2026-05-04 22:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: CENTCOM hails two US merchant ships exiting Hormuz Strait safely in "first step".
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[2026-05-04 22:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: A Ukrainian one-way attack drone struck a high-rise apartment building in Moscow in the early hours of Monday, causing no reported casualties and only limited damage. The strike occurred just miles from the Kremlin, highlighting Ukraine's long-range drone strike capabilities.
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[2026-05-04 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LAOAG, Ilocos Norte — The military exercise being conducted by the Philippines, United States and allied partners in northern Luzon does not target anyone and is not in preparation for any possible foreign invasion, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said Monday.
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[2026-05-04 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-05-04 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Though tempered by the prospect of additional GOP gerrymandering of House districts in the wake of a pivotal Supreme Court decision, Democrats' hopes for a rout of Republicans in the approaching midterm elections are rising after a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that President Trump's disapproval rating is now the highest of either of his two terms in office.
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[2026-05-04 21:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By RT newsroom, a team of multi-lingual journalists with over a decade of experience in Russian and international reporting, delivering original research and insights often missing from mainstream coverage
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[2026-05-04 21:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A senior Israeli military official said the army discriminates in its response to stone-throwing attacks in the occupied West Bank based on whether the perpetrators are Palestinians or Jews, and that Israel is “killing like we haven’t killed since 1967”.
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[2026-05-04 21:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: As the Middle East undergoes a profound transformation, a central question is emerging: What is the current conflict really about?
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[2026-05-04 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Cheap, mass-produced one-way drones have played a major role in the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran since the first attacks on Tehran on February 28. As Iran uses these drones to target energy facilities, airbases and other strategic sites across the Gulf and Israel, the US and Israel use expensive interceptor missiles for defence.
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[2026-05-04 21:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has expanded its control of the Gaza Strip to nearly 60 percent of the territory despite the ceasefire, as it prepares for a possible resumption of the war, Army Radio reported on Sunday.
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[2026-05-04 21:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has expanded its control of the Gaza Strip to nearly 60 percent of the territory despite the ceasefire, as it prepares for a possible resumption of the war, Army Radio reported on Sunday.
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[2026-05-04 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Aaron Boxerman and Sanam Mahoozi
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[2026-05-04 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: YEREVAN, Armenia — European leaders talked up independence on defence and closer ties with Canada Monday, as they gathered in Armenia for a summit clouded by US threats to cut military support.
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[2026-05-04 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Google's old motto, "Don't be evil," was retired for very good reasons eight years ago.
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[2026-05-04 20:54 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said the U.S. decision to withdraw thousands of troops from Germany had caught European leaders off guard.
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[2026-05-04 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A US Navy patrol boat has been hit by two Iranian missiles not far from the Strait of Hormuz after it ignored warnings to stay out of the critical waterway, Fars News Agency has reported. It claimed that the boat was “forced to retreat,” without providing information on the damage.
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[2026-05-04 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A US Navy patrol boat has been hit by two Iranian missiles not far from the Strait of Hormuz after it ignored warnings to stay out of the critical waterway, Fars News Agency has reported. It claimed that the boat was “forced to retreat,” without providing information on the damage.
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[2026-05-04 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Raz Zimmt said in an interview with 103FM that despite reports suggesting Iran may be willing to compromise and extend limits on uranium enrichment, Tehran continues to condition any discussion of its nuclear program on ending the war, lifting the blockade, and the withdrawal of US forces, meaning the core obstacle remains unresolved and no breakthrough has been achieved.
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[2026-05-04 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two missiles launched by the Iranian Navy hit a United States Navy frigate, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-aligned Fars News Agency reported on Monday afternoon, citing local sources.
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[2026-05-04 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Soaring diesel prices linked to the Iran war are accelerating a continent‑wide shift in Africa’s telecom industry, pushing operators to replace fuel‑hungry generators with solar‑powered systems to keep mobile networks running and costs under control.
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[2026-05-04 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Major-General Ali Abdollahi has warned that “supporters of the evil America should be careful” in entering the Strait of Hormuz to escort commercial vessels.
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[2026-05-04 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Ohio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump’s war in Iran, gas prices and corruption dominate messaging as special election nears to fill Senate seat
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[2026-05-04 19:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says European leaders have “gotten the message” after United States President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw 5,000 soldiers from Germany.
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[2026-05-04 19:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Europe is in far greater economic trouble that most people realize. In an April 2026 report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), it was reveled that the UK's GDP per capita is lower than all 50 U.S. states, including the poorest, Mississippi. While the majority of Britons mistakenly believe the UK is as wealthy or wealthier than the US, data shows the UK's average income lags behind the lowest-performing US states, highlighting a significant economic gap.
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