Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-05 06:00 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump
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[2026-03-05 05:56 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Here’s what we know about the four US service members who have been identified
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[2026-03-05 05:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Children hold a sign protesting war against Iran during an antiwar demonstration at Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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[2026-03-05 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US will begin using larger reserves of less-sophisticated weapons after assessing that Iranian air defences are degraded, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 05:38 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the war in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-05 05:27 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: The United States Navy has torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean – the first time an enemy vessel has been sunk by an American torpedo since World War II – as Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted that the US was “just getting started” in its military campaign.
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[2026-03-05 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto shake hands during their meeting at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-05 05:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The day after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, and the subsequent Iranian counterattack against US bases in the Gulf, Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that the UK government would intervene in the conflict in two ways.
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[2026-03-05 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-05 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the US Senate were set to begin voting Wednesday on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorized by Congress.
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[2026-03-05 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah has claimed an attack on Israeli troops near the southern Lebanese town of Khiam.
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[2026-03-05 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said he was surprised at markets’ response to the escalating Iran war, calling the dip in stocks “more benign” than he expected as the conflict entered its fifth day.
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[2026-03-05 04:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Plumes of smoke from an explosion rise on the skyline in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-03-05 04:21 UTC+10:00] [Middle East and north Africa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Airlines are using long-readied contingency plans but bottlenecks have formed that no amount of planning can fix
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[2026-03-05 04:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE- Iraqi’s head coach Graham Arnold sits on the bench at the start of the 2026 World Cup play off first leg soccer match between UAE and Iraq in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Walid Ibrahim, File)
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[2026-03-05 03:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's military has threatened to target Israeli embassies worldwide if Israel attacks the country's mission in Lebanon.
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[2026-03-05 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, lowa, was posthumously promoted from specialist after a strike at a command center in Kuwait killed him and five other U.S. service members. (AP video by Mark Vancleave)
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[2026-03-05 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Eva Bartlett, a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years).
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[2026-03-05 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Eva Bartlett, an award-winning Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine, as well as Venezuela and the Donbass.
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[2026-03-05 03:30 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: March 5, 2026 03:30 | News
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[2026-03-05 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — A US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, touting the strike as evidence of America's global reach in its war on Iran.
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[2026-03-05 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli forces have claimed an attack on a major Iranian military compound in Tehran housing command centres of the Revolutionary Guards, the elite Quds Force and the Basij paramilitary force.
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[2026-03-05 03:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday disclosed repeated Turkish initiatives to prevent a war between the United States and Iran, saying Tehran had failed to understand the mood in Washington.
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[2026-03-05 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that Iran’s thwarted drone attack on Turkey would not trigger NATO’s Article 5.
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[2026-03-05 03:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: The first commercial flight out of the Middle East to Australia since hostilities began landed in Sydney overnight.
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[2026-03-05 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: IN a press conference on Tuesday, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. provided an update on the plight of Filipino citizens in the war-torn Middle East, disclosing that as of that time, a total of 1,416 Filipinos had requested repatriation from the government. As there are nearly 3 million Filipinos — most of them overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) — across the Middle East, it is likely that the number who would like to be brought out of harm’s way is much higher.
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[2026-03-05 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MALACAÑANG on Wednesday said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will certify as urgent a proposed measure seeking a new authority to reduce excise tax on fuel products, describing it as “timely” as war spreads in the Middle East.
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[2026-03-05 03:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is spending tens of millions of dollars to recruit Ukraine war veterans into Paralympic sport, fast-tracking wounded soldiers from hospital wards into regional and national teams, an investigation by the Poland-based news outlet Vot Tak has found.
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[2026-03-05 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An oil tanker is moored at the Sheskharis complex in Novorossiysk, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
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[2026-03-05 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-05 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: San Diego has gone to war with wealthy second homeowners.
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[2026-03-05 02:40 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The war will have incalculable implications for Europe – and yet, the chancellor has held back from publicly challenging an increasingly erratic Donald Trump
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[2026-03-05 02:31 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts on Tuesday addressed the war in Iran, the closing of Papa Johns restaurants and the upcoming White House correspondents dinner
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[2026-03-05 02:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Turkish foreign ministry has summoned the Iranian ambassador to Ankara to express concerns over a ballistic missile fired from Iran into its airspace, a Turkish diplomatic source said.
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[2026-03-05 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Lebanon saw new airstrikes on 4 March as a building was hit in the Harik district of Beirut’s southern suburbs. Social media footage showed smoke rising from a multi storey structure in Haret Hreik, an area often associated with Hezbollah sites. The strike appeared to follow an evacuation warning issued online by Israel’s Arabic language military spokesman, who had shared maps marking buildings near mosques and other locations.
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[2026-03-05 02:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Oman’s navy has rescued 24 people from a Maltese-flagged cargo ship after it was attacked by missiles near the Strait of Hormuz, Oman’s news agency reported. The 24 crew members were rescued and given medical treatment, the report said.
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[2026-03-05 02:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: AFP reported that fresh blasts were heard over Jerusalem following a missile alert issued by the Israeli military.
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[2026-03-05 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Military forces from Ecuador and the United States have begun joint military operations against organized crime groups in the South American country, the Pentagon said, although as of Wednesday specific details, including the location and scope of the operation, remained scarce.
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[2026-03-05 02:10 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-03-05 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait killed her and five other U.S. service members.
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[2026-03-05 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has strongly condemned the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, despite the threat by US President Donald Trump to cut off all trade with Madrid for refusing to allow Washington to use its bases.
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[2026-03-05 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has strongly condemned the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, despite the threat by US President Donald Trump to cut off all trade with Madrid for refusing to allow Washington to use its bases.
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[2026-03-05 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nato air defence systems have shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading into Turkish airspace, the Turkish defence ministry said on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 02:00 UTC+10:00] [Nicolas Maduro] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The popular idea in China that American strength is waning may need a rethink, observers say
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[2026-03-05 01:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Kurdish opposition groups have neither confirmed nor denied reports of a possible ground advance from Iraq into western Iran amid the ongoing US-Israeli war.
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[2026-03-05 01:52 UTC+10:00] [Hakan Fidan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A Turkish official said the missile had been ‘aimed at a base in Greek Cyprus but veered off course’
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[2026-03-05 01:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: We heard rumors this week that Oscars organizers were developing a red carpet back-up plan based on current events in Iran.
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[2026-03-05 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: An Iranian ballistic missile that was heading towards Turkish airspace before being intercepted by Nato air and missile defence systems near the southern city of Hatay on Wednesday may have been fired by “isolated” Iranian elements, Middle East Eye understands.
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[2026-03-05 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nato air defence systems have shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading into Turkish airspace, the Turkish defence ministry said on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-05 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Kurdish opposition groups have neither confirmed nor denied reports of a possible ground advance from Iraq into western Iran amid the ongoing US-Israeli war.
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