Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-28 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GENEVA, Switzerland — The United Nations said Friday it had launched an $80-million appeal to address the urgent humanitarian needs of nearly two million refugees in Iran and their host communities as the Mideast war rages.
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[2026-03-28 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Israel Defense Forces said on Friday it had struck what it described as Iran’s most central production site for missiles and naval mines, targeting a major hub used to develop advanced weapons systems for the Iranian Navy.
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[2026-03-28 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-28 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US is only certain it has destroyed around a third of Iran's missiles, despite comments from President Donald Trump boasting of military success.
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[2026-03-28 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Smoke and flames rise following an Israeli military strike on a target next to a tent camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March, 25, 2026.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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[2026-03-28 02:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia's defence ministry has signed a memorandum regarding arrangements related to defence procurement with Ukraine's defence ministry in Jeddah, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Friday.
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[2026-03-28 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Please, sir, can he have some more?
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[2026-03-28 02:19 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Team make gesture before loss to Nigeria in Turkey
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[2026-03-28 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Activists wave Cuban and Palestinian flags from the vessel Maguro, arriving from Mexico with humanitarian aid as part of the “Nuestra America,” or Our America convoy, in Havana Bay, Cuba, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Jorge Luis Banos)
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[2026-03-28 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Lebanon faces the threat of a “humanitarian catastrophe”, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned, as Israel expands its weeks-long bombardment and ground invasion of the country.
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[2026-03-28 02:07 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-03-28 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: One month into their war with Iran, the United States and Israel find themselves confronting an opponent that fights more like an insurgency than a nation — using increasingly limited resources to inflict maximum pain.
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[2026-03-28 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nato plans to establish a multinational corps in Turkey, the Turkish defence ministry revealed this week, signalling Ankara’s desire to strengthen its deterrence in the region.
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[2026-03-28 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A strike hit Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday afternoon without any warning from the Israeli military, Lebanese state media reported.
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[2026-03-28 01:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel threatened to “escalate and expand” its attacks on Iran on Friday, even as US President Donald Trump claimed talks on ending the war were going well and gave Tehran more time to open the Strait of Hormuz. Iran, meanwhile, gave no signs of backing down.
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[2026-03-28 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan – In the middle of 1971, at the height of the Cold War, a Pakistani government plane carrying US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew overnight from Islamabad to Beijing. The trip was secret, the facilitator was Pakistan, and the geopolitical consequences were generational.
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[2026-03-28 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Norway is set to raise defence spending by 3.5 percent of its gross domestic product to compensate for rising military equipment costs and to adjust to lessons learned from the Ukraine war, the government says.
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[2026-03-28 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Egypt has ordered shops, restaurants and shopping malls to close from 9:00pm, hoping to curb energy bills that have more than doubled because of the Iran war.
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[2026-03-28 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Markets across the Gulf region have diverged sharply since the Middle East conflict began, as investors traverse big swings in energy prices and markets remain rattled by geopolitical turmoil.
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[2026-03-28 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israel threatened to “escalate and expand” its attacks on Iran on Friday, even as U.S. President Donald Trump claimed talks on ending the war were going well and gave Tehran more time to open the Strait of Hormuz. Iran, meanwhile, gave no signs of backing down.
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [PLA Air Force] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Jinglei-1 and H-6N strategic bomber combination completes nuclear triad, boosts second-strike capability, military magazine says
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: It is looking awfully familiar
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [US economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President’s move, dubbed Trump Always Chickens Out, appears to have soured as he loses hold on situation in Iran
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[2026-03-28 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Ageing] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At 59, I was at last an orphan. I woke up with the most complete feeling of liberty and personhood I’d ever experienced
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[2026-03-28 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The labor war between the writers guild and its workers, who have been on strike for nearly six weeks, is coming to a head.
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[2026-03-28 00:29 UTC+10:00] [Philippines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Manila has been forging closer ties with several Nato members amid tensions between the transatlantic security alliance and the US
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[2026-03-28 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday denied reports that President Vladimir Putin asked leading Russian businessmen to make large financial contributions to the state budget to help fund the war against Ukraine.
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[2026-03-28 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Qatar’s prime minister has held talks with senior US officials in Washington, DC, amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran and fallout across the Gulf.
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[2026-03-28 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Footage shared by the Iranian Red Crescent showed damaged buildings and emergency teams at work, while Israel said it had carried out a "wide‑scale" wave of attacks in the capital and the north‑west province of West Azerbaijan. The images emerged as US media reported that Washington is considering sending up to 10,000 additional troops to the Middle East, a move that would deepen fears of a broader regional war.
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[2026-03-28 00:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran has formally accused the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia of allowing the US military to use their territory and airspace to launch and support strikes against the Islamic Republic, according to letters sent to the UN Security Council.
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[2026-03-28 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.
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[2026-03-27 23:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US and Israel are "burning through" their supply of Tomahawk and interceptor missiles in their war on Iran, alarming some in the Pentagon.
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[2026-03-27 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Handout images released by the Philippines show a People's Liberation Army (PLA) vessel sailing alongside the BRP Benguet, with fewer than 10 meters separating the two ships. Philippine Colonel Nep Padua told AFP the maneuver was 'unsafe' and 'provocative.'
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[2026-03-27 23:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: Vice President Sara Duterte urges Filipinos to be prepared until the end of 2026 as the food situation in the country may become 'more difficult' due to the threat of El Nino and rains, as well as the ongoing oil price increases due to the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-27 23:30 UTC+10:00] [Strait of Hormuz] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Our fate increasingly depends on the state of mind of leaders who are playing a nuclear-scale game of chicken
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[2026-03-27 23:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukraine says it has signed a defence agreement with Saudi Arabia as Gulf countries continue to come under Iranian attack amid the United States and Israel’s war on Iran.
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[2026-03-27 23:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on March 27, 2026 says the Philippines' hosting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Leaders' Summit in May would push through despite the ongoing war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-27 23:06 UTC+10:00] [Iran war] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The US secretary of state chided allies for rebuffing Trump’s demand for military help in the Gulf
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[2026-03-27 23:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.
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[2026-03-27 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: "We will not initiate war, but we possess overwhelming power to confront any aggression,” Iranian military commander Hossein Salami declared a year ago, just months before he was killed in an Israeli air strike.
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[2026-03-27 22:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Initiating peace talks in the Iran war "is no easy task," but it would be "conducive to restoring normal navigation through the Strait of Hormuz," Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said during a call with his Pakistani counterpart on Friday.
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[2026-03-27 22:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Farmers around the world are facing fertilizer shortages and rising costs due to supply disruption caused by the war in Iran, which could make food more expensive later this year.
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[2026-03-27 22:44 UTC+10:00] [Asia Pacific] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-03-27 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: There was the seventh-grade boy in the Moscow region who stabbed his 13-year-old classmate in the neck on their way to school.
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[2026-03-27 22:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Sanaa, Yemen – Iran is facing the full might of the United States and Israel, and is fighting back, using the cards at its disposal.
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[2026-03-27 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A delegation of State Duma lawmakers met with members of Congress in Washington on Thursday, during which they discussed a broad range of issues, including Ukraine peace talks and resuming direct flights between the two countries, according to a Russian official who attended the rare sitdown.
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[2026-03-27 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Mexico’s navy said on Thursday it had activated a search-and-rescue operation in the Caribbean to locate two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba after the vessels failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled.
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[2026-03-27 22:10 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Analysts fear Iran has played a weak hand well and America has blundered into a defining strategic failure
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[2026-03-27 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo warned on Thursday that hostilities between the government and the AFC/M23 are spreading beyond the traditional epicenter of North and South Kivu into Tshopo Province, far from the front lines.
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[2026-03-27 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee to replace Jerome Powell as Fed chair, has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill in recent days, securing support from Republican senators he needs for confirmation and maybe a Democrat or two.
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