Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-05 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged Gulf nations and the United Nations to act following President Donald Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum to Iran, warning of escalating conflict.
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[2026-04-05 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Huge size of China’s unmanned submersibles has US defence experts worried Beijing may attack vulnerable targets including LA and Seattle
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[2026-04-05 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Yan Zheping] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Huge size of China’s unmanned submersibles has US defence experts worried Beijing may attack vulnerable targets including LA and Seattle
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[2026-04-05 10:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s armed forces have decided to add two major power stations in Israel to their target bank, Tasnim news agency reported, citing military sources.
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[2026-04-05 10:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Israeli military said on Saturday it would strike an area near the main crossing between Syria and Lebanon, urging residents to evacuate immediately as it continued its attacks across Lebanon.
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[2026-04-05 10:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-04-05 10:09 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Berlin/London: When Iceal Hambleton, a US air force navigator, was shot down over Vietnam more than half a century ago, any hopes of a swift rescue were quickly dashed.
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[2026-04-05 10:03 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Robert Fico said ending sanctions on Russian energy imports would help tackle the energy crisis stemming from the war in Iran. What we know on day 1,502
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[2026-04-05 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Half of the fleet is already docked as the fishing association warns the whole sector may ‘collapse like dominoes’
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[2026-04-05 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Half of the fleet is already docked as the fishing association warns the whole sector may ‘collapse like dominoes’
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[2026-04-05 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: A temporary halving of fuel taxes by the federal government has helped bring down soaring retail fuel prices, which have dropped about 30c per litre for unleaded petrol in recent days. Source: AAP / Joel Carrett
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[2026-04-05 09:41 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Vatican City: Pope Leo led the world’s Catholics into Easter at a Saturday night (Rome time) vigil Mass in St Peter’s Basilica and urged people not to feel numbed by the scope of the conflicts raging across the world but to work for peace.
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[2026-04-05 09:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The revelation of the bomb’s make-up comes amid questions of how it sat outside the military installation for six days without being found
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[2026-04-05 09:32 UTC+10:00] [Matthew Stamm] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The revelation of the bomb’s make-up comes amid questions of how it sat outside the military installation for six days without being found
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[2026-04-05 09:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: At least 30 universities in Iran have been affected by US-Israeli attacks since the start of the war on 28 February, the country’s science minister Hossein Simaei Saraf said.
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[2026-04-05 08:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An influential oil industry trade association has lit a flame underneath Gov. Gavin Newsom for blaming soaring gas prices solely on the Trump Administration’s war in Iran.
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[2026-04-05 08:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: SAN FRANCISCO — Steph Curry swapped out a green-and-gold snapback for a navy blue Red Sox hat, changed from his baggy gray cargo pants into sweats and walked across the Warriors’ locker room to Kristaps Porzingis and dapped up the Latvian big man.
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[2026-04-05 08:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The last several days have seen a limited number of foreign vessels successfully and safely cross the Strait of Hormuz for the first time, amid the ongoing de facto military blockage by Iran.
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[2026-04-05 08:36 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our rolling coverage of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and reaction in Australia on Sunday, April 5.
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[2026-04-05 08:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military says it has carried out more than 200 air strikes over the weekend targeting sites in Iran and Lebanon.
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[2026-04-05 08:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A British flight attendant has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after sharing an image of a drone strike, highlighting a widening crackdown on people documenting the war and raising questions about Dubai’s image as an open global hub.
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[2026-04-05 07:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Israeli soldier has been killed and another seriously wounded in what the military claimed was a friendly fire incident in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-04-05 07:55 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
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[2026-04-05 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: 18-year-old Nadav woke to the sound of a siren echoing across Jerusalem. The American high school student had been napping when Iran launched a barrage of missiles.
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[2026-04-05 07:44 UTC+10:00] [Scam of the Week] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: by Michael West | Apr 5, 2026 | Scam of the Week
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[2026-04-05 07:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Russia escalated its attacks on Ukrainian civilians overnight — killing at least 16 people and injuring 94 more with drones and missiles, despite pleas from Kyiv for an Easter ceasefire.
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[2026-04-05 07:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: German men aged between 17 and 45 may need to seek approval for lengthy stays abroad, under changes introduced as part of a a new law which introduced voluntary military service.
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[2026-04-05 06:38 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Access to the holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City has been largely blocked by Israeli authorities since the regional war started on 28 February. Source: SBS News / Graphic art by Lilian Cao
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[2026-04-05 06:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Yemen’s Houthi movement has claimed it carried out a joint military operation with Iranian forces and Hezbollah targeting sites in Israel, including Ben Gurion Airport.
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[2026-04-05 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addresses the Senate regarding the conflict in Iran and the Gulf region, in Rome, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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[2026-04-05 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Indonesia has received the bodies of three United Nations peacekeepers who were killed in southern Lebanon during Israel’s invasion of the country, amid the ongoing United States-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-04-05 06:10 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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[2026-04-05 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Organisers say aid mission is ‘a military operation without guns’ – but their plan is at the mercy of regional geopolitics
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[2026-04-05 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Lebanon] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Every morning Mariam Nasereddine, from Sydney, checks for familiar names on a growing list of the dead as war intensifies in her native Lebanon
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[2026-04-05 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-05 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Since the start of the Iran conflict, oil prices have skyrocketed, and many cruise passengers are worrying they’ll be slapped with extra surcharges related to the fuel issues in the next months as a result.
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[2026-04-05 05:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEL AVIV, Israel — Carrying anti-war banners and chanting slogans against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hundreds of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the war with Iran.
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[2026-04-05 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The war that erupted on February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched strikes against the Islamic Republic’s military and nuclear infrastructure, marks the collapse of a secular illusion: the belief that a revolutionary Islamic state behaves like a Westphalian bureaucracy, driven by state interest and strategic calculation, rather than pursuing a project that seeks to overturn the existing order.
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[2026-04-05 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The main assumption behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is that economic connectivity can be insulated from geopolitics. The war with Iran is not just a regional conflict; it strikes at the structural heart of the BRI vision by showing that the BRI corridors are deeply impacted by regional security shocks.
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[2026-04-05 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: After the October 7, 2023, massacre on Israel by Hamas, Israel cannot brook illusions about the dawn of regional peace, nor can it return to the “containment” policies of recent decades that prioritized diplomacy over decisive military triumphs against jihadist adversaries.
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[2026-04-05 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Anti-war demonstrations were held across Israel on Saturday evening, with protesters gathering in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, and Kfar Saba despite strict wartime restrictions on public assembly.
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[2026-04-05 05:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Rights groups say video appeared online showing children wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying assault rifles. (Supplied)
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[2026-04-05 05:23 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: When Navy veteran Luke McCallum broke protocol to lead the 2024 Anzac Day procession on the newly laid parade ground at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, stepping out on his prosthetic leg ahead of the president of the ACT RSL, the moment was “transformative”.
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[2026-04-05 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran's resilience after more than a month of very heavy US-Israeli bombing has become obvious. The country's somewhat ancient air force and navy have been largely obliterated, and yet all the while the Iranian military has kept up intense ballistic missile and drone strikes on Israel and Gulf states. Tehran's missile arsenal is what is understood to have always been formidable.
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[2026-04-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Black market cigarette prices have soared up to 50 per cent as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a series of major seizures and worsening violence in the nationwide tobacco war squeezes local supplies and leads to price gouging.
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[2026-04-05 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Polymarket removed a forum related to the rescue mission of U.S. military servicemembers amid political pressure, the latest sign of mounting scrutiny around prediction markets.
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[2026-04-05 04:37 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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[2026-04-05 04:37 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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[2026-04-05 03:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has met Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha to discuss the energy crisis due to the ongoing United States and Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-05 03:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISTANBUL, Turley — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Istanbul Saturday for talks on energy and navigation security, and efforts to end the war with Russia, the Turkish presidency said.
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