Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-04 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un caza se prepara para aterrizar en la base aérea RAF Akrotiri, Reino Unido, tras ser alcanzado por un ataque con dron cerca de Limassol, Chipre, lunes 2 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Petros Karadjias)
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[2026-03-04 05:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israelis and some in the Iranian diaspora celebrated when the first blow in the third Gulf war was struck early on Saturday morning, as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other military and political leaders were wiped out.
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[2026-03-04 05:19 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A selloff for stocks is slamming into Wall Street after wrapping around the world, as oil prices leap even higher with worries that the widening war with Iran may do more sustained damage to the economy than feared.
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[2026-03-04 05:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Multiple commanders across all branches of the US military have offered a fundamentalist Christian explanation for the attack on Iran, describing President Donald Trump as the harbinger of the Second Coming and the conflict itself as a “signal fire” for Armageddon, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has reported.
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[2026-03-04 05:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US stock market plunged, bonds sold off, and energy prices continued to soar on Tuesday, in a sign that markets are increasingly alarmed by the escalating war on Iran after an earlier muted reaction.
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[2026-03-04 05:10 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: March 4, 2026 — 5:10am
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[2026-03-04 05:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US will suspend all trade with Spain over Madrid’s decision to deny the US permission to use its joint military bases to attack Iran, President Donald Trump has announced. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has condemned Trump’s “unjustified and dangerous” intervention against Iran. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said that “we’re going to cut off all trade with Spain,” and that he doesn’t “want to have anything to do with” the Mediterranean nation.
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[2026-03-04 05:08 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing says US-Israeli strikes were in bad faith and calls for an immediate halt, a return to talks and opposition to unilateral action
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[2026-03-04 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
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[2026-03-04 04:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday praised the joint U.S.-Israeli war effort against the Islamic Republic, but added that NATO itself will not get involved.
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[2026-03-04 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Workers stand around the ARA San Juan submarine during a ceremony celebrating the first stage of major repairs at the Argentine Industrial Naval Complex (CINAR) in Buenos Aires, Sept. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Mario de Fina, File)
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[2026-03-04 04:44 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ben Jennings on Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and the war in Iran – cartoon
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[2026-03-04 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: As gas prices in the U.S. are expected to rise, California Governor Gavin Newsom came under fire Monday from the U.S. Oil and Gas Association for his comments blaming President Donald Trump and the war in Iran as triggers for the increase.
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[2026-03-04 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The sun sets behind a plume of smoke rising after a U.S.–Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-03-04 04:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Amazon said drone strikes significantly damaged two of its data centers and a facility in the Middle East amid the conflict in Iran, taking some of the tech giant’s services in the region offline.
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[2026-03-04 04:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The way Brics responds to the US and Israel's war on Iran, a permanent member, will have repercussions for how the group is perceived and understood - not only by its own members, but the whole world going forward, analysts have told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-03-04 04:22 UTC+10:00] [Lebanon] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Israel has deployed soldiers on the ground in southern Lebanon and is carrying out heavy airstrikes in the country as conflict in the Middle East continues to spread. It comes after the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched missiles and drones toward Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
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[2026-03-04 04:07 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Bombarded by the US and Israel, Iranians worry about how to survive, and what comes next
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[2026-03-04 04:05 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: With the US and Israel apparently without a postwar plan for the country, we explore four possible scenarios
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[2026-03-04 04:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech next to the submarine ‘Le Temeraire’ (The Temerarious) at the Nuclear submarines Navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, Monday March 2, 2026. (Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-04 03:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The FBI has joined the search for a retired US Air Force general — who once led a site long rumored to be tied to UFO research — after he was reported missing in New Mexico.
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[2026-03-04 03:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: When Benjamin Netanyahu launched his genocidal assault on Gaza in autumn 2023, Britain’s two main political parties formed a cross-party cartel in support of the bloodstained Israeli prime minister.
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[2026-03-04 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ADDS CAUSE OF BLACK SMOKE IN THE BACKGROUND.- A plume of smoke caused by an Iranian strike is seen in the background an an Emirates plane is parked at the Dubai International Airport after its closure in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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[2026-03-04 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: AN escalation of the conflict in the Middle East could push Philippine inflation toward 4 percent in the coming months, an analyst said.
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[2026-03-04 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Widespread abuse and hazing among soldiers are undermining Germany’s armed forces as the Bundeswehr struggles to meet personnel targets and attract recruits, a new report has suggested.
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[2026-03-04 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Widespread abuse and hazing among soldiers are undermining Germany’s armed forces as the Bundeswehr struggles to meet personnel targets and attract recruits, a new report has suggested.
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[2026-03-04 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Foreign Minister Penny Wong says six Australian crisis consular teams are being deployed to the Middle East to help stranded travellers.
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[2026-03-04 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia is evacuating thousands of its citizens from countries in the Middle East with specialized emergency aircraft and dozens of commercial flights amid the conflict in Iran.
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[2026-03-04 03:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A wildly popular fitness influencer has been forced to admit lying about surviving a bomb blast to the face while serving in the military.
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[2026-03-04 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ON Monday, Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno issued an executive order directing the city government to immediately reduce its fuel use by 50 percent, in anticipation of higher fuel prices and constricted supplies due to the ongoing war by the United States and Israel against Iran. It was an eminently sensible decision on the part of Mayor Moreno, and one that should immediately be duplicated at every level of government across the Philippines.
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[2026-03-04 03:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KABUL — Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists in Kabul heard multiple explosions and gunfire on Tuesday, as Afghan and Pakistani troops kept up their border battles.
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[2026-03-04 03:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIJING — China’s top political advisory body voted to remove three generals, state media said, a week after nine military officials were ousted from its legislature.
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[2026-03-04 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PURE legalese would place America as acting in an unabashed, unimpeded impunity. In the space of just a month, it has caused the downfall of two heads of state. One, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, whom it kidnapped together with wife Cilia in early January; and two, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, whom it killed in missile attacks at the end of February.
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[2026-03-04 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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[2026-03-04 03:00 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-04 02:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Global energy markets have come under pressure as the Middle East conflict escalates, with fears mounting over potential disruptions to oil and gas supplies. US and Israeli strikes on Iran have prompted Tehran to retaliate with missile and drone attacks on Israel and US bases across the region. Iran has also targeted oil facilities in neighboring countries, while shipping through the Strait of Hormuz – the narrow gateway at the mouth of the Gulf — has largely ground to a
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[2026-03-04 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Sudan’s army-aligned government has accused Ethiopia of involvement in recent drone strikes, saying attacks launched “from inside Ethiopian territory” targeted sites in Sudan in February and March.
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[2026-03-04 02:49 UTC+10:00] [South Sudan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At least 169 killed in raid near Sudan border as clashes between government and opposition forces intensify
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[2026-03-04 02:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah’s surprise strike on Israel on Monday did more than reignite a front that had largely lain dormant since the 2024 war. It has set off a sweeping Israeli retaliation, shaken Lebanese public opinion, and thrust the Lebanese state into one of its most consequential confrontations with the group in years.
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[2026-03-04 02:44 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Stockpiles of the most advanced US-made weapons are limited – while few know how large Iran’s arsenal is
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[2026-03-04 02:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Israeli Air Force struck a top Iranian meeting on Tuesday where Tehran’s senior clerics had gathered to select a replacement for slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to multiple reports.
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[2026-03-04 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LONDON — Keir Starmer has never had a bad word to say in public about Donald Trump.
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[2026-03-04 02:20 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the South Korea–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-03-04 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: US and Israeli strikes on Iran could encourage the Islamic Republic and its Arab neighbours to acquire nuclear weapons, Russia’s Foreign Minister warned on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-04 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Dow tumbled more than 1,000 points on Tuesday after gasoline prices spiked overnight and oil rocketed above $83 a barrel as the widening conflict in Iran began to disrupt global energy supplies.
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[2026-03-04 02:14 UTC+10:00] [Israel] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Fear and grief mix in the small town of Beit Shemesh, where missile struck ageing bomb shelter
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[2026-03-04 02:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: I’m a staff reporter for The Korea Herald, covering national security and foreign policy across the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly. Before entering journalism, I served as an Air Force lieutenant, working as an interpreter and junior planner at the South Korea–US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-03-04 01:57 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-03-04 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Head of the Federal Treasury Roman Artyukhin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-03-04 01:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Soldiers stand watch against the national flag on Tiananmen Square during a press conference ahead of the opening of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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