Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-17 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Lebanese Parliament renewed confidence in Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government on Wednesday, with 68 lawmakers voting in favor despite some Hezbollah lawmakers withdrawing from the session and heated exchanges involving other members of the Shiite bloc, according to official statements and recordings of the session.
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[2026-09-17 21:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE -Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a press conference at the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
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[2026-09-17 21:16 UTC+10:00] [Interest rates] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Central bank announces surprise plan to sell billions of pounds in government bonds back to the Treasury
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[2026-09-17 21:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A Syrian military court on Thursday sentenced one defendant to death, another to 25 years in prison and a third to 20 years over deadly sectarian violence on Syria’s coast last year.
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[2026-09-17 20:43 UTC+10:00] [Budget] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: PARIS — French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen is open to continue providing defensive military gear to Ukraine but is against sending money to the war-torn country.
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[2026-09-17 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: President Donald Trump says the United States is “hopefully toward the end” of its war with Iran, claiming that he has directly spoken to officials in Tehran, raising the prospect of renewed diplomacy even as fighting has erupted in Yemen.
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[2026-09-17 20:29 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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[2026-09-17 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An English village has overwhelmingly voted to “secede” from the UK in protest over government plans to house more than 1,200 male migrants at a nearby former military base. The referendum in Piddington, Oxfordshire has no legal force but drew nearly 92% turnout.
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[2026-09-17 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: European and Arab military chiefs are meeting in Paris to assess the Lebanese Armed Forces’ needs and discuss the looming end of the United Nations peacekeeping mission UNIFIL, amid fears of a renewed Israeli military campaign in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-09-17 20:08 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Four Melburnians have been linked to the gun used in a fatal shooting of an innocent university student in Sydney’s south-west as part of the city’s gangland war.
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[2026-09-17 20:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukrainian officials say at least 19 people have been injured in Russian missile and drone strikes targeting Kyiv and surrounding areas.
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[2026-09-17 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Film] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: A shrewd performance by Simon Abkarian leads this blockbuster account of the wartime leader’s career as he ascends to political dominance
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[2026-09-17 19:53 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-09-17 19:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From sabotage and arson to cyberattacks and airspace violations, officials say Moscow’s hybrid actions have moved deeper into Europe
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[2026-09-17 19:51 UTC+10:00] [Nato] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From sabotage and arson to cyberattacks and airspace violations, officials say Moscow’s hybrid actions have moved deeper into Europe
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[2026-09-17 19:30 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: Early in his second term, US President Donald Trump wanted Canada so entwined with the United States that he even set out to make it the 51st state. Instead, he has driven Canada into the arms of the European Union after antagonising the Canadians for months, taunting the country’s prime minister and waging a relentless trade war.
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[2026-09-17 19:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this handout photograph provided by the Nepal Army, Nepalese soldiers carry the bodies of workers recovered during a search and rescue operation at the Chilime hydropower project following earlier flash floods in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (Nepal Army via AP)
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[2026-09-17 19:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Vietnamese army troops prepare boats for rescue works in flooding areas in Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (Tran Van Hoang/VNA via AP)
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[2026-09-17 19:05 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school and sports facility in February constitute war crimes
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[2026-09-17 19:03 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Geneva: Human rights experts commissioned by the UN’s top rights body say they have found “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab.
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[2026-09-17 19:01 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Coles is keeping milk prices higher than before the Iran war, despite ending subsidy payments to farmers that the supermarket giant used to justify stinging consumers at the checkout.
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[2026-09-17 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As it faces off against Beijing in the region, Manila has been expanding its unofficial security cooperation with Taipei
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[2026-09-17 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Marshall Islands] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As it faces off against Beijing in the region, Manila has been expanding its unofficial security cooperation with Taipei
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[2026-09-17 18:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the stripping of citizenship from those who "defame" the Israeli army.
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[2026-09-17 18:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to pass a law to revoke the citizenship of anyone who criticises Israeli soldiers, following domestic outcry over Naza, an Israeli documentary on the Gaza war.
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[2026-09-17 18:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: GENEVA (AP) — Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body say they have found “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab.
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[2026-09-17 18:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the stripping of citizenship from those who "defame" the Israeli army.
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[2026-09-17 18:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry on Wednesday launched its first comprehensive international campaign aimed at exposing what it says is the United Nation's mechanism of bias against Israel ahead of the UN General Assembly's general debate, which is set to begin in New York on September 22.
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[2026-09-17 18:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.
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[2026-09-17 18:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An AI system that interferes with a nuclear command network or launches a military cyber operation could leave Washington or Beijing with minutes to decide whether the other government attacked, according to US and Chinese security experts.
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[2026-09-17 18:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spain's Oscar entry "The Black Ball" has proven buzzy across the festival circuit, as its powerful message championing LGBTQ rights emerges from intertwined storylines revolving around sexuality and the Spanish Civil War.
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[2026-09-17 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Books] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: What is it that makes books so magical? The Times columnist somehow forgets to tell us in this lofty polemic
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[2026-09-17 17:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a sweeping sanctions and tariff bill intended to increase economic pressure on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, sending the bill to U.S. President Donald Trump to sign into law more than a year after the late Senator Lindsey Graham first introduced it.
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[2026-09-17 17:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Nuclear Weapons
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[2026-09-17 17:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The seizures follow an initial detainment of a container for Israeli defence technology firm Elbit Systems, suspected of containing weapons
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[2026-09-17 17:44 UTC+10:00] [Malaysia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The seizures follow an initial detainment of a container for Israeli defence technology firm Elbit Systems, suspected of containing weapons
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[2026-09-17 17:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: In Odesa, a drone attack after midday killed one man and set garages ablaze, damaging nearby homes and cars. A second strike later hit a 19-storey apartment building, injuring three people, including a child. Footage from the State Emergency Service showed firefighters tackling burning debris and working around damaged buildings.
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[2026-09-17 17:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Licensed gun owners should carry their weapons when attending synagogue on Yom Kippur, Arik Barbing, a former head of the Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency)'s Jerusalem and West Bank district and former head of the agency's cyber division, told 103FM on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-17 17:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: His viral moment in Seoul has raised his profile among supporters, but analysts say weak polling and past losses remain hurdles
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[2026-09-17 17:18 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: His viral moment in Seoul has raised his profile among supporters, but analysts say weak polling and past losses remain hurdles
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[2026-09-17 17:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean and U.S. troops have conducted joint explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) drills designed to improve interoperability and strengthen cooperation among relevant agencies, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Thursday.
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[2026-09-17 17:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Total value of project could reach $19bn; GlobalFoundries to operate new plant
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[2026-09-17 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: At least 21 people have been killed and 45 others were wounded after a building in western Gaza City collapsed early on Wednesday, according to the latest update by Gaza's civil defence.
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[2026-09-17 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Om Siraj al-Muzeini was preparing soup for her sick child when she heard a commotion outside her tent in western Gaza City.
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[2026-09-17 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: There's been another dangerous incident and major 'close call' involving a Russian ship in international waters off Europe.
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[2026-09-17 16:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian barrage of missiles and drones targeting Ukraine’s capital injured at least 16 people overnight and into Thursday morning, local authorities said.
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[2026-09-17 16:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The move shows how military ties have expanded beyond weapons and troops into labour and industrial production, the report says
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[2026-09-17 16:37 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The move shows how military ties have expanded beyond weapons and troops into labour and industrial production, the report says
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[2026-09-17 16:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the world wrestles with the ethical implications of artificial intelligence and the dangers of removing humans from life-altering decisions, Israel has pressed ahead with deploying AI as part of its military arsenal.
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[2026-09-17 16:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Mohammad Saeed had just turned 18 when he fled to Iran with his parents and younger brother and sister, escaping the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
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