Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-07 07:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Australia is 12,000 kilometres away, but the ripples of the conflict in the Middle East could reverberate all the way into our power bills.
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[2026-03-07 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, “with his impeccable timing,” has transformed into “more of an anti-Israel zealot,” snarks Commentary’s Seth Mandel, “mocking Israel’s participation in the regime-change mission in Iran,” even as “Israel’s participation in the conflict saves American lives.”
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[2026-03-07 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Sri Lankan Navy is seen evacuating 208 crew members of an Iranian vessel – Iris Booshehr stranded near country’s territorial waters on Thursday night after the ship sought assistance from the Sri Lankan Government to dock at one of ports.
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[2026-03-07 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: In a strange way, markets could come to be a surrogate institutional check on a country that otherwise doesn’t know restraint. The missiles are again flying and a thick fog of war has descended over the Middle East. US President Donald Trump has said it might take four to five weeks or longer to achieve America’s objectives, whatever those are.
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[2026-03-07 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The next few weeks could be a crucial period for Sri Lanka in light of the military situation that has emerged in the Middle East due to the on-going conflict, Defence Deputy Minister Major General (retd) Aruna Jayasekara told Parliament.
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[2026-03-07 06:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Two Iranian sailors, carrying green bags, who were rescued from IRIS Dena warship by Sri Lanka’s navy are escorted to a Judicial Medical Officer from the National Hospital, in Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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[2026-03-07 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Gulf countries are shutting down oil and gas production as a result of the US-Israeli war on Iran, but it's not just their energy infrastructure that is currently held hostage to Iran’s retaliatory missiles and drones: food and water are, too.
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[2026-03-07 06:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said he is not worried about rising petrol prices in the United States during the ongoing conflict involving Iran, saying the military campaign remains his main focus, according to Reuters.
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[2026-03-07 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Tankers may deliver nearly 22 million barrels of Russian oil to India within the next week, allowing the South Asian country to address its energy problem amid the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, the Indian newspaper The Economic Times reported.
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[2026-03-07 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that his country is ready for a ground invasion by American troops as the war launched by the United States and Israel has quickly spread across the region. He also refused any negotiations with the U.S. and said that Iran had not asked for a ceasefire.
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[2026-03-07 06:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: US oil prices surged to $90 a barrel on Friday after President Trump demanded unconditional surrender from Iran – fueling fears of a lasting conflict that Qatar’s energy minister warned could “bring down the economies of the world.”
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[2026-03-07 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Gleb Nikitin at the Kremlin, in , Russia, Friday, March 6, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-07 06:08 UTC+10:00] [Photography] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenTehran, IranA man is helped in the aftermath of an airstrike that caused major damage to the area around Ferdowsi Square in Tehran. Israel and the US launched a war on Iran this week, unleashing waves of air attacks across the country in an attempt to bring about regime change and plunging the region into a conflict that could last weeks or months.Photograph: Parspix/ABACA/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenTehran, IranSmoke billows after an airstrike near the Azadi tower in
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[2026-03-07 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Trump administration on Friday announced a $20 billion reinsurance program for oil tankers and other maritime traffic in an effort to get vessels moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-03-07 06:00 UTC+10:00] [Women's football] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: In refusing to sing the national anthem these athletes have placed themselves in grave danger while Gianni Infantino sides with the American war machine
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[2026-03-07 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Reacher star Alan Ritchson goes head-to-head with a killer alien robot in War Machine, the new sci-fi action flick that began streaming on Netflix today. (Not to be confused with the 2017 Brad Pitt movie War Machine, which was also a Netflix original film. No relation!)
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[2026-03-07 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military said its air force carried out another round of strikes on targets in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs.
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[2026-03-07 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had visited the eastern front line as Ukraine and Russia completed a two-day prisoner-of-war swap, exchanging 500 soldiers each.
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[2026-03-07 05:44 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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[2026-03-07 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Donald Trump’s war on Iran marks the US president’s final break with his ‘America First’ allies and embrace of interventionism. It’s a decision that will haunt whoever inherits the leadership of his divided movement.
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[2026-03-07 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Germany has withdrawn additional Bundeswehr troops from the Middle East as tensions escalate on the seventh day of the Israeli-US war on Iran, a military spokesperson said.
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[2026-03-07 05:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: CNN was accused of pushing out “pro-Iran regime propaganda” by the Trump administration Thursday after a reporter for the network said it appeared daily life was continuing despite the ongoing war.
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[2026-03-07 05:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Netflix may have run out of generic movie titles, now that we’re forced to differentiate War Machine (2026) with War Machine (2017). The latter differentiated itself by being a satire led by Brad Pitt, but today, we have to deal with the former, which struggles to differentiate itself from dozens of similar military/sci-fi action movies.
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[2026-03-07 05:27 UTC+10:00] [flares] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Australia says the Chinese aircraft made an ‘unsafe’ manoeuvre, while China called the statement ‘distortions of facts’
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[2026-03-07 05:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The United States insists it attacked Iran to curb "direct threats" from the Islamic republic, but legal experts say the dangers cited by Washington do not justify war under international law.
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[2026-03-07 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Calls are growing for an independent investigation into an attack on a girls’ school in southern Iran that killed 165 young pupils this week, with United Nations experts denouncing the deadly bombing as “a grave assault on children”.
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[2026-03-07 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Defence and National Security
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[2026-03-07 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Defence and National Security
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[2026-03-07 04:52 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The intensified use of artificial intelligence, and rows over its control, demonstrate the need for democratic oversight and multilateral controls
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[2026-03-07 04:49 UTC+10:00] [Keir Starmer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: PM justifies position on US-Israel war on Iran in social media post using the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing
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[2026-03-07 04:46 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: People tell of scenes of panic during airstrikes on Iran’s capital, with several saying they feared they would die
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[2026-03-07 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack on an Israeli military site in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
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[2026-03-07 04:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Trump White House released a chaotic video montage of US military strikes on Iran combined with iconic movie scenes Thursday night, drawing backlash from both sides of the aisle for making light of the Middle East war.
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[2026-03-07 04:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Fishermen work in front of oil tankers south of the Strait of Hormuz Jan. 19, 2012, offshore the town of Ras Al Khaimah in United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
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[2026-03-07 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: An explosion on Beirut's southern suburbs after an Israeli strike, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, Lebanon on Friday. (Reuters: Khalil Ashawi)
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[2026-03-07 04:22 UTC+10:00] [Marco Rubio] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The president has said it is ‘just a matter of time’ before the US turns to Cuba after finishing its war in Iran
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[2026-03-07 04:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: KABUL, March 6 — Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border on Friday as the UN said their week-old conflict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.
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[2026-03-07 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Explosions were heard across the capital and large plumes of smoke rose over the area known as Dahiyeh, where Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. Shortly before the strikes on Thursday, the Israeli army ordered residents across the southern suburbs to evacuate immediately. The warning covered one of the most densely populated parts of the capital and triggered a rapid exodus toward central Beirut, the coast and nearby mountains.
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[2026-03-07 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: President Donald Trump has criticised UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer after he refused to let the US launch strikes on Iran from British military bases.
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[2026-03-07 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: BEIRUT/WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM — Israel pounded Beirut on Friday after ordering an unprecedented evacuation of the entire southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a major expansion of the war against Iran it began a week ago alongside the United States.
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[2026-03-07 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The world's tallest building on fire, missiles raining down on central Tel Aviv, and an elderly slain leader being pulled from the rubble of the Iranian capital.
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[2026-03-07 03:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel is exporting its “Gaza playbook” to Lebanon, a nonprofit group has warned, as the Israeli military continues to attack the country after ordering the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.
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[2026-03-07 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Rebaz Sherifi, military commander at the Kurdistan Freedom Party PAK, speaks during an interview in Irbil, Iraq, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Rashid Yahya)
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[2026-03-07 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The world's tallest building on fire, missiles raining down on central Tel Aviv, and an elderly slain leader being pulled from the rubble of the Iranian capital.
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[2026-03-07 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran could sustain its response to the US and Israel for weeks if it reduces the scale of its missile barrages, according to Arman Mahmoudian, a research fellow at the University of South Florida’s Global and National Security Institute.
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[2026-03-07 03:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The much-anticipated flag football event involving Tom Brady and other NFL legends and superstars is moving from Saudi Arabia to California after war broke out in the Middle East over the weekend.
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[2026-03-07 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia's defence ministry has said it intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile near the central Al-Kharj area.
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[2026-03-07 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE week-old United States-Israel war with Iran in the Middle East has disrupted the global supply chain of crude oil coming from that region. The Strait of Hormuz — the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean — was effectively closed to navigation due to Iran’s drone attacks.
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[2026-03-07 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE unfolding conflict in the Gulf between Iran and the United States-Israel axis has exposed a strategic reality that many governments hosting American military assets and bases have long tried to downplay: when a major power wages war, the territories from which it projects force become part of the battlefield.
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[2026-03-07 03:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AS Pope Leo XIV guides his flock to relive the grace-filled season of Lent, his first as the leader of the 1.3-billion-strong Catholic Church, “a world that is ablaze” that rues in his Ash Wednesday message, is increasingly ripping apart the prospects for world peace. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now in its fourth year and is hardly showing any sign of resolution.
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