Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-09 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT, Lebanon — At least 112 people were killed and 837 more were wounded in Lebanon on Wednesday after Israel launched a wave of strikes unprecedented in the current war, according to the latest Lebanese health ministry toll.
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[2026-04-09 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: April 9, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-04-09 03:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Supply worries due to the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz have pushed the price of aluminum close to a four-year high. © Reuters
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[2026-04-09 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-09 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Ships in the Gulf have received a warning from Iran's navy that any vessels seeking to cross the Strait of Hormuz without permission "will be targeted and destroyed", the shipping brokerage firm SSY has confirmed to BBC Verify.
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[2026-04-09 03:21 UTC+10:00] [Conflict] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BRUSSELS ― Donald Trump makes a mess. Europe gets called on to clean it up, or at least pay a hefty price to deal with it.
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[2026-04-09 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Delta Air Lines on Wednesday forecast second-quarter profit below expectations and said it would pull all planned capacity growth from the June quarter as soaring jet fuel prices driven by the Iran war squeeze margins.
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[2026-04-09 03:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Only days ago, Islamic Republic hardliners running the city of Tehran put up a gigantic banner at one of the busiest intersections in the Iranian capital.
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[2026-04-09 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: In a day, Donald Trump went from threatening that Iran's civilisation "will die tonight" to declaring that Iran's ten-point plan was a "workable" basis for negotiation in Pakistan.
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[2026-04-09 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah has been killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza.
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[2026-04-09 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranian authorities see the truce with the United States and Israel as a strategic victory, but they emerge battered and isolated with an economy in tatters, little prospect of rapid recovery, and an impoverished, embittered population.
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[2026-04-09 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failure in the Iran war during a press conference on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-09 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel was not informed of the United States plan to reach a temporary two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran until the deal was in its late stages of finalization, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-09 03:02 UTC+10:00] [Lebanon] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As a doctor who has worked in a conflict zone, I’ve seen spaces that were once considered sacrosanct become fair game in war. This has to end
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[2026-04-09 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: All eyes are on the very shaky Iran ceasefire, at a moment Tehran is already threatening to pull out due to heavy Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Iran says it has again halted Hormuz oil transit, and there's much that's still up in the air and uncertain. The briefing with press secretary Karoline Leavitt is expected to begin at 1300ET:
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[2026-04-09 02:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire in an 11th-hour deal that headed off US President Donald Trump's threat to unleash a bombing campaign to destroy Iranian civilization. Hours later, Iran and Gulf Arab countries reported new attacks Wednesday.
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[2026-04-09 02:39 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-04-09 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on the Iran war
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[2026-04-09 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Oil and gas prices plunged, stock markets soared and the dollar retreated Wednesday after the United States and Iran agreed a temporary ceasefire that could lead to the Strait of Hormuz reopening.
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[2026-04-09 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian media reported that air defences were activated in the capital, Tehran.
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[2026-04-09 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: (UPDATE) SEOUL — North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after reporting an “unidentified projectile” launched from the North’s capital area the previous day.
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[2026-04-09 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: JUST two hours before United States President Bobo the Simpleminded’s deadline on Wednesday morning for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or else the US would “end its civilization,” it was announced that Iran and the US had agreed to a two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan. The US will hold off on the whole ending civilization thing, while Iran will allow shipping through the strait.
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[2026-04-09 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: COPENHAGEN — The war on Iran has upended the global economic outlook overnight. Oil supply routes have been shut down and prices have surged. Every central bank, finance ministry and economic forecaster is scrambling to answer the same question: what happens next?
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[2026-04-09 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-09 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-09 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-04-09 01:56 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The ceasefire is welcome but fragile. Friday’s talks in Islamabad must address Iran’s nuclear programme and avoid sidelining the rest of the region
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[2026-04-09 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump is set to meet Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House on Wednesday, after hinting he may seek to reduce Washington's support for the bloc – or leave it altogether.
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[2026-04-09 01:47 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US and Iran have agreed to a two-week conditional ceasefire, thanks to a last-minute diplomatic intervention led by Pakistan.
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[2026-04-09 01:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with more info in paras 10, 13-18; ADDS photo)By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-04-09 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: President Donald Trump has claimed that Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, contradicting the assertion of Pakistan, which mediated the truce.
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[2026-04-09 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Israel has made clear that it doesn't see the newly declared US-Iran ceasefire as applying to its war in Lebanon, where it is still trying to destroy Hezbollah. The White House too has made its stance clear that it doesn't apply, but President Trump has stated his intent to take care of a Lebanon ceasefire separately.
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[2026-04-09 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A two-week ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump appeared to have brought a temporary halt to the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-09 01:30 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s threat ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ hours before a ceasefire
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[2026-04-09 01:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said that Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire deal struck between Iran and the US.
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[2026-04-09 01:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius says men of military age in Germany do not need to report lengthy stays abroad.
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[2026-04-09 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: America and Iran have claimed victory after a conditional ceasefire was agreed only hours after US President Donald Trump warned “a whole civilisation will die … never to be brought back again”.
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[2026-04-09 01:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on the Iran war
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[2026-04-09 01:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran and the United States have both claimed victory in their conflict as they both accepted a two-week ceasefire just before US President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic deadline to obliterate Iranian “civilisation” if Tehran did not agree to a deal.
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[2026-04-09 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: US-Israel war on Iran achieved ‘every single objective’: Hegseth
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[2026-04-09 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq has been one of the main targets of Iran and its proxies in the month and a half of war since February 28.
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[2026-04-09 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Many Israelis woke up this morning with a sense of frustration. In the hours leading up to the expiration of the American ultimatum to Iran, expectations were high that the night might bring another decisive phase of the campaign, possibly including strikes against Iran’s critical energy infrastructure. Such a move was widely perceived as the type of pressure that could force Tehran into a strategic retreat.
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[2026-04-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Ben Roberts-Smith] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Media outlets defended their reporting as true on the balance of probabilities, but prosecutors in criminal cases need to meet a higher burden of proof
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[2026-04-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline hours after a ceasefire was agreed, Reuters is reporting, citing an industry source.
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[2026-04-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As the two sides prepare to meet in person in Pakistan, analysts identify American leader’s miscalculations leading to weaker footing
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[2026-04-09 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As the two sides prepare to meet in person in Pakistan, analysts identify American leader’s miscalculations leading to weaker footing
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[2026-04-09 00:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds injured in Lebanon in Israel's largest spree of attacks during the current war.
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[2026-04-09 00:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Written off as defeated after the 2024 war with Israel, Hezbollah has surprised observers by deploying significant firepower, introducing previously unseen weapons, and confronting Israeli troops along the border, where it was assumed to have no remaining presence.
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[2026-04-09 00:48 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As Iran and US agree fragile ceasefire, Israel’s conflict has turned out to be a bust and, say opponents, ‘a political disaster’
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[2026-04-09 00:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The first vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz since Iran and the U.S. reached a two-week ceasefire deal, ship-tracking service MarineTraffic said Wednesday.
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