Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-06 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday rejected a viral claim that the US Navy are using Indian ports amid the conflict with Iran. Taking to X, the fact-check unit of the MEA dismissed the claim as “fake and false” In a fact check alert on social media platform X, the union ministry said “Claims being made on OAN, a US based channel that Indian ports are being used by the US Navy are fake and false.”
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[2026-03-06 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States-Israeli war with Iran continues to rage, as Washington pledges to send more troops and military assets to the Middle East and Tehran widens its retaliatory strikes across the region.
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[2026-03-06 06:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In an interview with NBC, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is “not asking for a ceasefire” and sees no reason to negotiate with the United States.
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[2026-03-06 06:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-03-06 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, talks with reporters as he leaves the Senate chamber during a Senate war powers vote on Iran on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
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[2026-03-06 05:58 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: John Healey says its ‘unpatriotic’ for opposition politicians to turn the US against Starmer
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[2026-03-06 05:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Kuwait’s army said its air defences are responding to missile and drone attacks in the country’s airspace.
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[2026-03-06 05:51 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Tory leader’s appearance on the Today programme was sheer madness – and comedy gold
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[2026-03-06 05:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Financial Markets
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[2026-03-06 05:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron said France will support the Lebanese army and called on Israel “not to expand the war to Lebanon”.
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[2026-03-06 05:19 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: As Iran has descended into war this week, some are worried that the situation of those inside country's prison cells.
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[2026-03-06 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council has approved transferring key leadership powers to the country’s interim three-member leadership council, including authority over senior military and security appointments and decisions on war or peace, spokesperson Mohsen Dehnavi said on X.
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[2026-03-06 05:17 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Stocks are back to falling on Wall Street on Thursday, as oil prices rise further because of the war with Iran.
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[2026-03-06 05:10 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Thank you for joining our ongoing coverage of the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-06 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As Israel pounds Lebanon and orders hundreds of thousands to flee, a second battle is unfolding behind closed doors: one of warnings, ultimatums and increasingly stark diplomatic messages delivered to senior Lebanese officials.
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[2026-03-06 05:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of Des Moines, Iowa, in this May 16, 2025, photo. (Sgt. Brent Newton/U.S. Army via AP)
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[2026-03-06 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The tobacco war has reignited following a string of firebombings, shootings and a bashing that have taken place in the wake of a power vacuum left by the arrest of reigning kingpin Kazem “Kaz” Hamad.
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[2026-03-06 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: I woke up at 2am, confused about whether the noises I was hearing were air-raid sirens or crowds in nearby synagogues, singing and dancing into the late hours in celebration of the Purim holiday.
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[2026-03-06 04:50 UTC+10:00] [Global development] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war
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[2026-03-06 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that escalating Israeli attacks and threats in Lebanon are forcing more people to flee their homes.
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[2026-03-06 04:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has asked his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to intervene to prevent Israel from carrying out a threatened large-scale bombing of Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
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[2026-03-06 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has threatened to turn the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital into another Gaza Strip, as the Israeli military ordered hundreds of thousands of people to immediately leave their homes in Beirut.
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[2026-03-06 04:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Judith Wilson of Walnut Creek, California, had been stranded in Dubai for the last few days on a business trip while her husband, Doug, prepared for emergency heart surgery back home.
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[2026-03-06 04:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Steve Emt, right, and Laura Dwyer, of the United States, and Yoji Nakajima, left, and Aki Ogawa, of Japan, greet each other after their wheelchair curling mixed doubles round robin session at the 2026 Winter Paralympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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[2026-03-06 04:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: It is near impossible to make sense – at least from the justifications on offer – of what US President Donald Trump really hopes to achieve with his and Israel's blatantly illegal war of aggression on Iran.
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[2026-03-06 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Top Iranian official Ali Larijani has stressed that his country is prepared to confront a possible invasion from the the United States, pledging to capture and kill US troops if they enter the country.
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[2026-03-06 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PARIS — Fewer commercial flights were cancelled Thursday in the Middle East despite continued military strikes, with more than 100 flights taking off from the United Arab Emirates, according to a specialist data firm.
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[2026-03-06 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Maryam’s life stopped last Saturday. Since then, every minute of every day has been divided between getting updates from her family in Iran when they can communicate with her, and the hours between, when she’s left guessing what their fate might be.
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[2026-03-06 04:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Thousands of cruise ship passengers remain stranded in the Gulf as a result of the war on Iran.
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[2026-03-06 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nearly 25,000 of the roughly 44,000 flights scheduled to operate in and out of the Middle East between Saturday and Thursday were canceled, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. Dubai International Airport, one of the region’s main hubs, saw the highest number of disruptions.
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[2026-03-06 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nearly 25,000 of the roughly 44,000 flights scheduled to operate in and out of the Middle East between Saturday and Thursday were cancelled, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium. Dubai International Airport, one of the region’s main hubs, saw the highest number of disruptions.
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[2026-03-06 03:45 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Is the Islamic Republic a messianic theocracy or a brittle dictatorship? It’s neither – as those attacking it are finding out
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[2026-03-06 03:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Wall Street’s main indexes edged lower on Thursday as the Middle East conflict entered its sixth day, raising concerns of fresh inflation pressures that could complicate the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions.
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[2026-03-06 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As Israeli and US attacks on Iran continue, Iranian political and military leaders are preparing for the possibility of a civil war, sources familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-06 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As Israeli and US attacks on Iran intensify and the conflict spreads across the Middle East, Israelis celebrated Purim this week by drawing historical parallels with the holiday's story, which tells of the attempt to wipe out the Jews of the Persian empire.
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[2026-03-06 03:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As Israeli and US attacks on Iran intensify and the conflict spreads across the Middle East, Israelis celebrated Purim this week by drawing parallels with the holiday's story, which tells of the attempt to wipe out the Jews of the Persian empire.
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[2026-03-06 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An Albany watering hole often frequented by business leaders, lawmakers, and lobbyists from around the state has closed its doors.
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[2026-03-06 03:18 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-06 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The second commercial flight arrived in Sydney overnight from Dubai since the war began on Saturday.
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[2026-03-06 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WHEN I was a graduate student at the Department of International Relations of the Catholic University of Korea from 2009 to 2011, one of the topics that our American professor enthusiastically discussed in class was Operation Ajax, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-backed plot to oust the democratically elected Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953.
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[2026-03-06 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN — Israel on Thursday launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran, which stepped up its attacks on Gulf nations Qatar and Bahrain, as the war in the Middle East spread throughout the region and beyond.
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[2026-03-06 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-06 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-06 02:56 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Welcome to our coverage of US politics today as the conflict as Iran continues to dominate the agenda.
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[2026-03-06 02:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: European Union leaders have expressed support for Arab countries in the Gulf as Iran continues to launch missile and drone strikes on targets across the region in response to attacks by the United States and Israel.
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[2026-03-06 02:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s reward came from heaven.
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[2026-03-06 02:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Konstantin Toropin)
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[2026-03-06 02:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US expects to wage war on Iran for at least another 100 days, or even through September, Politico has claimed.
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[2026-03-06 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: In 1946, Winston Churchill’s Fulton Speech symbolically marked the beginning of the Cold War between the Western world and the Soviet Union. Since then, relations between Russia and the West have been fraught with tension. In recent years, this culminated in a strong and almost existential antagonism.
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[2026-03-06 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: SEOUL, March 5 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the navy would have a “powerful offensive capability” as he visited a 5,000-ton destroyer and oversaw a missile test, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
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