Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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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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[2026-03-07 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BOSTON, Massachusetts — Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s former dictator, won the big prize in the country’s national lottery in 2000. And he won for a simple reason: because he could. Once you destroy institutions constraining your power, as Mugabe did during his 37-year reign, you can rule for personal enrichment, personal aggrandizement or simply personal entertainment.
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[2026-03-07 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the United States launched the 1991 Gulf War, then-president George H.W. Bush boasted of building a broad coalition unseen in decades. When his son attacked Iraq in 2003, he faced wide criticism, but secured several steadfast US allies.
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[2026-03-07 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-07 02:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Taba, a small resort town on Egypt’s border with Israel, has become a transit hub for Israelis and foreign nationals seeking to leave the country or return home after Israel closed its airspace amid its ongoing war on Iran.
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[2026-03-07 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Starmer is in zugzwang. Mandelson arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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[2026-03-07 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's military said a projectile fired at its territory on Friday wounded eight soldiers near the Lebanese border.
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[2026-03-07 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has banned Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, citing the “security situation” amid the war with Iran, while Jewish Purim celebrations have been allowed to take place elsewhere in the city.
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[2026-03-07 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The first flight from Dubai to San Francisco since the outbreak of the Iran war arrived at SFO, reuniting families and bringing home travelers stranded in the UAE. At the same time, the first departing flight from San Francisco to Dubai prepared for takeoff, with most passengers confident about returning home.
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[2026-03-07 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A posse of US stealth bombers is expected to reach UK military bases soon as President Trump warned Iran that “the big one” could be imminent.
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[2026-03-07 02:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Uncertainty over US and Israeli war aims is slowing the Iranian Kurdish opposition groups urged by President Donald Trump to rise up against the Islamic Republic, Kurdish analysts have told Al Jazeera.
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[2026-03-07 02:16 UTC+10:00] [Books] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Author of more than 30 novels, including Fado Alexandrino and The Inquisitors’ Manual, was widely seen as one of the most important voices in modern Portuguese literature
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[2026-03-07 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In a survery conducted in early March, 82 percent of the Israeli public supported the war on Iran, including 93 percent Jewish respondents and a minority of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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[2026-03-07 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has banned Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, citing the “security situation” amid the war with Iran, while Jewish Purim celebrations have been allowed to take place elsewhere in the city.
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[2026-03-07 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to help it strike American military forces in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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[2026-03-07 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Donald Trump has stressed that any deal with Iran must result in the country’s “unconditional surrender”, setting maximalist war objectives for the United States.
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[2026-03-07 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Canada signed a strategic agreement Friday aimed at strengthening cooperation in defense, economic and energy security as military strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel fueled concern about international oil supplies.
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[2026-03-07 01:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — US President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to rule out talks with Iran absent its “unconditional surrender.” Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut and Tehran as Iran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries on the seventh day of the war.
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[2026-03-07 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Energy Secretary Chris Wright predicted Friday morning that gas prices will come down in a matter of “weeks, not months” following a surge due to the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-07 01:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Taba, a small resort town on Egypt’s border with Israel, has become a transit hub for Israelis and foreign nationals seeking to leave the country or return home after Israel closed its airspace amid its ongoing war on Iran.
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[2026-03-07 01:35 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump appeared to rule out negotiations with Iran to end the conflict in the Middle East, saying in a social media post on Friday that there will be no deal absent "unconditional surrender" from Tehran."After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than
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[2026-03-07 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: DETROIT — Toyota Motor, Hyundai Motor and Chinese automakers such as Chery face the most potential impact of non-domestic automakers from the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, according to an analysis by Bernstein.
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[2026-03-07 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Uganda helped South Sudan carry out airstrikes that killed and badly burned civilians a year ago, according to a U.N. inquiry.
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[2026-03-07 01:31 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US says its firepower will ‘surge dramatically’ and IDF warns of ‘surprises ahead’, as Iran launches retaliatory strikes
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[2026-03-07 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Clashes across Sudan's southern Kordofan region killed at least 51 people between Wednesday and Thursday, medical sources told AFP, as the army said it recaptured the city of Bara, on the road to Khartoum.
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[2026-03-07 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Qatar’s Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi has said exports from the Gulf region could come to a halt “within weeks” if the war on Iran continues to escalate, throwing global energy markets into turmoil.
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[2026-03-07 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army said it attacked a senior Iranian commander in Tehran.
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[2026-03-07 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Getting a bombshell makeover in the Middle East left this siren shellshocked.
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[2026-03-07 01:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said only Iran's "unconditional surrender" would stop his assault on the country.
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[2026-03-07 01:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army has targeted the al-Janah area, south of Beirut, nearby the Iranian embassy, state-owned National News Agency (NNA) reported.
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[2026-03-07 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In a battered house, patched together after being damaged by Israeli bombing during the last war on Gaza, Tasneem stood by candlelight, cooking beans for her children's Ramadan dinner.
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[2026-03-07 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD — Pakistani and Afghan forces launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes Friday, and each side claimed to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors — a conflict that Islamabad has declared to be an “open war.”
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[2026-03-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: These are Australia's safest roads.
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[2026-03-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The International Paralympic Committee said Friday that Iranian athlete Aboulfazl Khatibi will not compete at the Milan Cortina Paralympic Games because he can’t safely travel to Italy amid the intensifying Middle East conflict.
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[2026-03-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: With friends and relatives in danger amid bombing in parts of Lebanon, many diaspora members are suffering a heavy psychological toll
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[2026-03-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Aukus] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Albanese government has stood by as the foundations of the international order were destroyed
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[2026-03-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian foreign policy] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The US-Israel war on Iran shows once again how deadly it is to be America’s enemy – but also how very hard it is to be its friend
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[2026-03-07 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: One week on from the start of Trump’s war on Iran, Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine Anthony Albanese’s swift response in support of the strikes and whether the Australian public is taking note of how his government is handling the conflict. They also delve into the review the Liberal party tried to keep under wraps, all the recent political polling and why Pauline’s brand of authenticity deserves further scrutiny
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[2026-03-07 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Several thousand high school students have taken to the streets of Berlin to protest a recently adopted law that envisages the reinstatement of compulsory military service in the event that not enough people volunteer.
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[2026-03-07 00:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Several-thousand high school students have taken to the streets of Berlin to protest a recently adopted law that could lead to the reinstatement of compulsory military service.
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[2026-03-07 00:48 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Didn’t you know? True British patriots are the ones who want to join an obviously disastrous war on behalf of Israel and Donald Trump
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