Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-20 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-20 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A series of “unidentified” drones have been spotted hovering over the Washington D.C. military base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth live, prompting the U.S. government to consider relocating them.
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[2026-03-20 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: With the Iran conflict entering its 20th day and both sides not showing any signs of backing down, South Asian and Indian Ocean Region (IOR) nations are in the firing line – metaphorically, if not physically – though the Iris Dena incident was uncomfortably close. The oil crunch resulting from the de-facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran is a severe blow to South Asian and IOR economies, which were already struggling due to a variety of reasons.
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[2026-03-20 06:27 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-03-20 06:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told his 13-year-old son that US service members have died to ensure his generation won’t have to confront a nuclear-armed Iran.
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[2026-03-20 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump llega en el Air Force One, el miércoles 18 de marzo de 2026, a la base de la Fuerza Aérea de Dover, Delaware, para asistir al regreso de los restos de los seis miembros de la tripulación de una aeronave de reabastecimiento de la Fuerza Aérea que murieron cuando su avión se estrelló en el oeste de Irak mientras apoyaba operaciones contra Irán.
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[2026-03-20 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian and US negotiators will meet in the United States on Saturday in a bid to revive stalled talks on Russia's invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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[2026-03-20 06:20 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Hello and welcome to our live rolling coverage of the war in the Middle East, this Friday March 20.
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[2026-03-20 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: CAPSAT military unit commander Col. Michael Randrianirina is seen in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Oct. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
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[2026-03-20 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-03-20 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Gold and silver futures plummeted Thursday to one-month lows after a historic metals rally earlier this year as the Iran war crushed hopes for interest rate cuts anytime soon.
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[2026-03-20 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran could face retaliation from its Gulf neighbors for attacks on their energy infrastructure, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Al Saud has warned, adding that the “patience” of the countries of the region is not “unlimited.”
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[2026-03-20 05:48 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-20 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz shutdown caused by the war in Iran is jacking up fertilizer prices, hitting farmers in their pocketbooks and threatening to raise food prices.
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[2026-03-20 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanon says that the Israeli army has targeted the town of Qabrikha, and Toulene in the Marjayoun area, Al Jazeera is reporting.
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[2026-03-20 05:36 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US president wanted an easy win, but the conflict is spiralling following Israel’s attack on a gas field and Iranian retaliation across the region
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[2026-03-20 05:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ATHENS, Greece — This was an animal airlift. Dozens of dogs and cats arrived in Athens on Wednesday with their owners aboard a special evacuation flight for Greeks with pets who were trapped by the current war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-20 05:34 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-03-20 05:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Residents watch and take pictures as flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility struck as attacks hit the city during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Alireza Sotakbar/ISNA via AP)
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[2026-03-20 05:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel says an oil refinery in the northern city of Haifa has been struck in an Iranian missile attack, but no “significant” damage was reported, as Tehran continues to retaliate across the region for strikes on its energy infrastructure.
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[2026-03-20 05:11 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Oil prices climbed again because of the war with Iran, tightening their grip on the global economy and sending stock markets lower around the world.
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[2026-03-20 05:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the country will exercise "zero restraint" if its energy sites are targeted again.
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[2026-03-20 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has told Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi he expects her country to “step up” to assist with securing the Strait of Hormuz amid the US- and Israeli-led war against Iran.
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[2026-03-20 05:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As everyone was absorbing the Reserve Bank’s decision to raise interest rates on Tuesday evening, one economist received something of a rock-star reception. Sean Turnell, the former senior economic advisor to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and one-time jailbird on spurious espionage charges, was in demand in Sydney’s inner west for photographs and autographs in his prison memoirs.
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[2026-03-20 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: March 20, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-03-20 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The price of petrol in Australia jumped again this week to reach an all-time high as the war in the Middle East continued with no end in sight.
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[2026-03-20 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Drones blur conventional distinctions between military and commercial hardware. (Getty: Ukrinform/NurPhoto)
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[2026-03-20 04:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he launched a crusade to shift the country away from renewable energy, drastically undoing the climate-friendly policies of his Democratic predecessor to focus instead on oil and other fossil fuels as the answer to his goal of American energy dominance.
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[2026-03-20 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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[2026-03-20 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, saluda a la coronela Matha “Jeannie” Sasnett, comandante de Asuntos Mortuorios de la Fuerza Aérea, al llegar en el Air Force One, el miércoles 18 de marzo de 2026, a la base Dover de la Fuerza Aérea, en Delaware, para asistir al regreso de los restos de los seis miembros de la tripulación de una aeronave de reabastecimiento de la Fuerza Aérea que murieron cuando su avión se estrelló en el oeste de
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[2026-03-20 04:25 UTC+10:00] [Asia Times] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-20 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Prices for metals fell sharply across the board Thursday as investors worried about the impact rising oil prices due to the U.S.-Iran war will have on the global economy.
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[2026-03-20 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In notices sent to Congress on Thursday, the State Department said the US would sell more than $8 billion in air defense systems and related materiel, including drones, air-to-air missiles and F-16 fighter jet munitions to the UAE, $8 billion in missile defense and radar systems to Kuwait and $70.5 million of aircraft and munitions support to Jordan.
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[2026-03-20 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: BTS has come out of hiatus to reclaim its K-pop throne with comeback album Arirang. (Supplied: Netflix)
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[2026-03-20 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Crude oil prices would need to jump to roughly $138 a barrel amid the war on Iran and stay there for at least a few weeks to put the US at a serious risk of a recession, according to a new survey of economists released Thursday.
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[2026-03-20 03:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Several European nations and Japan have issued a joint statement saying they would take steps to stabilise energy markets, a day after several strikes on energy facilities in the Gulf region sent oil and gas prices soaring amid the United States-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-03-20 03:30 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-20 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatar called for an “immediate” end to the US-Israeli war on Iran, becoming the first major Gulf energy producer to explicitly call for a halt to the conflict without conditions.
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[2026-03-20 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — United States President Donald Trump may use a White House meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday to press for help in the war on Iran, placing her in an awkward position as Tokyo weighs how much support it can provide.
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[2026-03-20 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE presidency of Barack Obama was supposed to improve relations by signaling American willingness to engage Iran. Ahmadinejad, however, took advantage of the opportunity to air a laundry list of grievances against the United States. According to an NPR (National Public Radio) news report in 2009:
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[2026-03-20 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Europe's sovereign bonds are facing "a perfect storm" after new inflation fears sparked by the Iran conflict forced the region's central banks to signal a new course for interest rates on Thursday, sending yields soaring.
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[2026-03-20 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Hackers targeted an Orthodox Jewish news publication after US officials warned of Iran-aligned cyber-attacks when the war in the Mideast country got underway last month.
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[2026-03-20 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-20 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-20 02:58 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Attacks on facilities by both sides in the conflict this week threaten grave consequences for the global economy
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[2026-03-20 02:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Palestinians inspect the damage at a beauty salon after a deadly Iranian strike in the West Bank village of Beit Awa, near Hebron, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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[2026-03-20 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A pregnant woman is the fourth Palestinian to have died from shrapnel wounds sustained after an Iranian missile attack on Wednesday night.
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[2026-03-20 02:50 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Foreign minister claims Israel convinced Donald Trump to make ‘grave miscalculation’ of waging war on Iran
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[2026-03-20 02:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: More than 1,000 people have been killed in intensified Israeli attacks across Lebanon this month, according to local authorities, as the United Nations and other rights groups say Israel’s bombardment of the country may amount to war crimes.
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[2026-03-20 02:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US has been drawn by Israel into an “unlawful war” against Iran and needs help to disengage, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi has said.
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