Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-27 20:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Head of US Space Force Combat Forces Command also highlights spaceplanes as area of increasing competition with China
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[2026-02-27 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Killings of civilians in Sudan's war more than doubled in 2025 compared with the previous year, the United Nations rights chief said Thursday, warning that thousands more dead are unidentified or remain missing.
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[2026-02-27 20:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: French aircraft carrier The Charles de Gaulle docks at Subic Bay port, a former U.S. Naval base northwest of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan, File)
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[2026-02-27 20:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, watches as members of the Central Military Commission takes their oath during a session of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on March 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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[2026-02-27 20:00 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The plant relies on external power to keep its nuclear material cool and avoid a catastrophic accident
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[2026-02-27 19:02 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Islamabad: Pakistan carried out air strikes on Afghanistan’s major cities overnight, officials in Islamabad and Kabul said on Friday, escalating months of border clashes between the Islamic neighbours.
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[2026-02-27 19:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: UK Defence Secretary John Healey has called for an investigation into whether convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and girls into the United Kingdom on private jets that landed at Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bases.
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[2026-02-27 18:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India and Israel would deepen cooperation in defence and artificial intelligence as he concluded a two-day visit to Israel.
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[2026-02-27 18:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: China has removed nine military lawmakers from its national parliament, escalating President Xi Jinping's purge of senior defense officials, which has been a months-long trend, tracked closely by global headlines.
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[2026-02-27 18:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Weird and wonderful real-life tales of authors who have appeared at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, from Margaret Atwood to Salman Rushdie
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[2026-02-27 17:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: A United Nations flight landed at Khartoum airport on Thursday, the first since Sudan's nearly three-year war began, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the country said, calling it "a big deal" for aid workers trying to reach millions of Sudanese in need.
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[2026-02-27 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- The defense ministry is set to convene a disciplinary committee against Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Kang Dong-gil on Friday over his alleged involvement in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's botched martial law bid in late 2024.
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[2026-02-27 17:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India and Israel will collaborate more closely on defence technology while pursuing a free trade agreement, as he wrapped up a controversial two-day visit.
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[2026-02-27 17:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Both Penang’s youngest executive councillor and his wife claimed they acted in self-defence after a squabble turned physical
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[2026-02-27 17:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [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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[2026-02-27 17:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The snow falling over Washington this week did more than slow traffic and empty sidewalks. It seemed to mirror the cautious mood inside policy circles across the capital, where discussions about Iran were measured, hesitant, and far from the sense of urgency felt back in Israel.
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[2026-02-27 17:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Israeli water exports to Jordan have dropped by half after an annual deal that provided extra supplies to the kingdom expired, reflecting the tension between the countries since the start of the Gaza war and recent unilateral Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-02-27 17:15 UTC+10:00] [Business / The economy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-02-27 17:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Pakistan has said it is now in “open war” with Afghanistan’s Taliban government as explosions were reported in Kabul and fighting continues in other locations along the border. Pakistan says it has also attacked Kandahar and Paktika inside Afghanistan.
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[2026-02-27 17:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Allies are watching as President Emmanuel Macron prepares to update the country’s nuclear doctrine and spell out how French nuclear weapons fit into Europe’s security. The move comes as European leaders question how reliable the U.S. nuclear umbrella remains after recurring tensions with President Donald Trump over Ukraine, Greenland, and NATO.
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[2026-02-27 17:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and the United States have agreed to conduct 22 field training drills as initially planned during their annual joint springtime military exercise next month, officials said Friday, marking a sharp cutdown from the previous year.
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[2026-02-27 17:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A sizeable exhibit in the Museum of the Revolution in Havana is dedicated to conditions in Cuba before the revolution took power in 1959. Inside the ornate former presidential palace, photographs and oral testimony detail the grinding poverty and ingrained corruption of the dictatorship of Cuba's then-military strongman, Fulgencio Batista.
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[2026-02-27 16:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: At least five Palestinians have been killed in Israeli drone attacks targeting two police posts in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis in the south, as Israel presses on with its more than two-year genocidal war on the devastated enclave.
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[2026-02-27 16:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Indonesia is preparing to send 1,000 soldiers to Gaza within weeks, the first contingent of some 8,000 personnel that Jakarta has pledged to deploy to the Palestinian territory as part of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) under United States President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.
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[2026-02-27 16:39 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-02-27 16:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has affirmed that the people of Pakistan and its armed forces are fully prepared to protect the country’s security, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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[2026-02-27 16:33 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-02-27 16:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Margaret Crescent in Dubbo where a man died after being stabbed. (ABC Western Plains: Ondine Slack-Smith)
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[2026-02-27 16:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Deputy Chief of Army Major General Chris Smith has taken aim at the "unavoidable creep of managerial speak" within the Australian Defence Force.
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[2026-02-27 16:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Farouk Abkar, a 60-year-old former charity kitchen worker who spent a year distributing grain and organizing lines at a charity kitchen in Zam Zam refugee camp in Sudan, peers from his home window in 6 October city, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Khaled el Fiqi)
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[2026-02-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Data and Documents] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-02-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Germany] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exhibits pay homage to Ukrainians’ resilience and bring home the reality that war is going on in Europe
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[2026-02-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Palestinian worshippers line up to pass through the Israeli military Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on their way to attend Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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[2026-02-27 15:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GENEVA, Switzerland— Iran and the United States made "significant progress" in talks in Switzerland on Thursday, mediators said, after the latest round of negotiations to avert a war between the longtime foes, and agreed to further discussions next week in Austria.
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[2026-02-27 15:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: China has removed 19 officials, including nine from the military, from its list of lawmakers ahead of its biggest annual political meeting next week.
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[2026-02-27 15:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In a frantic 24 hours of shuttle diplomacy, Trump’s hand-picked duo juggled Iran negotiations and Ukraine war talks
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[2026-02-27 15:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US military shot down a US government drone with a laser-based anti-drone system, an accident that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to bar flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas, congressional aides told Reuters.
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[2026-02-27 15:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From China tracking military moves near Iran to why tourists are ditching Tokyo for Seoul, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting
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[2026-02-27 15:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: India reignited their Twenty20 World Cup title defence in emphatic fashion on Thursday, piling up a tournament-record 256-4 before condemning Zimbabwe to a 72-run defeat in a one-sided Super Eight contest in Chennai.
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[2026-02-27 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The following has made for quite the headline, as a retired elite US Air Force pilot is in very hot water and faces US intelligence and military questioning: "A former US Air Force fighter pilot with more than two decades of experience with nuclear delivery systems and aircraft, including advanced F-35 stealth jets, has been arrested and charged with conspiring to help the Chinese military," according to CNN.
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[2026-02-27 14:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo)
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[2026-02-27 14:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ISLAMABAD — Pakistan bombed major cities in Afghanistan including the capital Kabul on Friday, with Islamabad's defence minister declaring the neighbours at "open war" following months of tit-for-tat clashes.
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[2026-02-27 14:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US lawmakers slam ‘incompetence’ after firing of military anti-drone system spurred airspace restrictions
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[2026-02-27 14:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Late on Wednesday, we highlighted an aggressive options trade where a call spread buyer in Netflix options had bet $14 million that Paramount would end up buying Warner Brothers after Netflix walks, something which Polymarket had indicated very much since the start of this particular M&A saga...
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[2026-02-27 14:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran's top-priority targets in the event of a war with the US will be Israel, as well as America's military bases in the Middle East, according to an analysis from the Alma Research and Education Center published on Wednesday.
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[2026-02-27 14:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Here is where things stand on Friday, February 27:
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[2026-02-27 13:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- Col. Lee Sang-hun has taken office as the Eighth Army's deputy commanding officer for South Korea, the U.S. Army stationed in the South said Friday.
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[2026-02-27 13:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People stand in line at check-in counters at El Paso International Airport, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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[2026-02-27 13:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The deadly US-registered speedboat shooting incident in Cuba carries the potential to ignite a serious conflict between Cuba and the United States, amid an ongoing investigation into exactly what happened overseen by the White House.
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[2026-02-27 13:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: By Victoria Pengilley
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