Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-20 23:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Thousands of protestors gathered outside Japan’s parliament in Tokyo on Sunday to oppose Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s plans to revise the country’s pacifist constitution and expand its military capabilities.
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[2026-07-20 23:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine military on Monday accused China's coast guard of allegedly injuring a Filipino sailor during an incident in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
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[2026-07-20 23:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-07-20 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: New satellite imagery offers insight into how Beijing plans to keep future strike groups supplied at sea
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[2026-07-20 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: New satellite imagery offers insight into how Beijing plans to keep future strike groups supplied at sea
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[2026-07-20 22:58 UTC+10:00] [Culture] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: ‘Alan and I have neat hair because we’d both just been in a military play. If we’d had crazy 1980s mullets, it wouldn’t have become a timeless classic’
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[2026-07-20 22:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The US military is bombing Iran for what is now the ninth straight day of renewed fighting, in a campaign which has expanded to include both civic and military infrastructure, also as Iranian retaliatory attacks keep up the pressure on the Gulf states, and have reached into Jordan, which deadly effect on an American base there.
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[2026-07-20 22:51 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Akbayan on Monday condemned what it described as a “barbaric” and deliberate attack by the China Coast Guard (CCG) on Philippine Navy personnel in Ayungin Shoal.
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[2026-07-20 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: A Russian strike on a ship near the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa has killed at least 10 people, while Ukraine has launched hundreds of drones to attack Moscow, a day after Kyiv was hit by one of the heaviest barrages of ballistic missiles of the war.
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[2026-07-20 22:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-07-20 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Mediators have passed Iran a proposal to de-escalate the war with the US that would offer a 10-day ceasefire to find ways to revive an interim deal reached last month, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday.
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[2026-07-20 22:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Monday declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia effective immediately, their military spokesperson said in a televised speech.
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[2026-07-20 22:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US equity futures rebound from Friday's selling, indicating a firmer start to the week with S&P futures rising 0.5% at 8.00am ET, and Nasdaq futures up 1% after a sluggish start to the session, after Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it had received proposals from mediators about the conflict with the US.
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[2026-07-20 22:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Billions of dollars have been wiped from the budget deficit and government debt thanks to the ongoing strength of commodity prices and the nation’s jobs market, but consumers face more pain as the war against Iran risks a fresh spike in petrol prices beyond $2 a litre.
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[2026-07-20 22:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Tatsuaki Inoue, a member of the Japan Association for Recovery and Repatriation of War Casualties, leads volunteers to pay respects ahead of their excavation work to find remains of Japanese soldiers who died during WWII and washed ashore on the coastline of Hengchun township, Pingtung county, southern Taiwan, Monday, July 20, 2026.
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[2026-07-20 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Khalil al-Hayya succeeds Yahya al-Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli forces in 2024
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[2026-07-20 22:11 UTC+10:00] [Khaled Meshaal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Khalil al-Hayya succeeds Yahya al-Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli forces in 2024
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[2026-07-20 22:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Video footage circulating online appears to show the moment Iranian missiles hit an airbase in Jordan, killing two American service members. The Iranian attack also left one missing and four requiring hospitalization, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
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[2026-07-20 21:56 UTC+10:00] [United States Defense and Military Forces] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: The Pentagon on Monday released the names of two U.S. service members who were killed in Jordan when Iran launched missiles at a military base there.
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[2026-07-20 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the United States escalates its strikes on Iran, Tehran is hitting back, targeting military and civilian infrastructure across the Gulf states and Jordan while avoiding attacks on US naval assets deployed near its coast and on Israel – a strategy that analysts say is intended to pressure US President Donald Trump without expanding the scope of the war.
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[2026-07-20 21:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) thanked the “Honorable people and mujahid soldiers (those who struggle for jihad) of Jordan,” claiming it was provided with intelligence that supported recent attacks on the US military, the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported on Monday morning.
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[2026-07-20 21:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Years of war, instability, weak governance, and public policy failures have left 15.4 million Yemenis without access to clean water and 17.4 million without adequate sanitation and hygiene, creating conditions for preventable public health crises, according to a newly published report by the Sana’a Center and the Arab Reform Initiative.
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[2026-07-20 21:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Hamas on Monday named Khalil al-Hayya, who served as chief negotiator for the terrorist organization during the Israel-Hamas war, as the new head of its political bureau.
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[2026-07-20 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Hamas has named Khalil al-Hayya as its new leader, succeeding Yahya Sinwar who was killed in Gaza by the Israeli army in October 2024.
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[2026-07-20 21:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has thanked Jordanian civilians and military personnel for allegedly providing the “accurate intelligence” it used to strike US forces and aircraft stationed in the kingdom.
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[2026-07-20 21:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has thanked Jordanian civilians and military personnel for allegedly providing the “accurate intelligence” it used to strike US forces and aircraft stationed in the kingdom.
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[2026-07-20 21:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In an official statement, Hamas announced that Khalil al-Hayya has been elected as the head of the political bureau of the Islamic movement, succeeding Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in Gaza by the Israeli army in October 2024.
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[2026-07-20 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: With the Strait of Hormuz already disrupted, the Red Sea is now a critical alternative outlet for Gulf oil and other products.
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[2026-07-20 20:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has approved a pilot project to house Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, abandoning, at least for now, its initial plans for the reconstruction of the war-devastated territory.
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[2026-07-20 20:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-20 20:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military said Chinese coast guard personnel aboard a motorboat repeatedly struck a Filipino sailor on the head with a wooden baton Monday in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, injuring him and damaging his smaller vessel.
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[2026-07-20 20:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The death of two American service members in a missile attack blamed on Tehran has prompted Washington to expand strikes on Iran, raising fears of a wider confrontation in what is being described as an escalatory trap.
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[2026-07-20 20:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo)
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[2026-07-20 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US and Iran are on the precipice of all out conflict, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with discussions in the While House. According to the paper’s sources, Washington is ramping up its air war assets in the Middle East.
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[2026-07-20 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US and Iran are on the precipice of all out conflict, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with discussions in the White House. According to the paper’s sources, Washington is ramping up its air war assets in the Middle East.
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[2026-07-20 20:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: PLA Daily says unmanned platforms have allowed Tokyo to circumvent constitutional constraints on military development
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[2026-07-20 20:10 UTC+10:00] [Osumi Strait] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: PLA Daily says unmanned platforms have allowed Tokyo to circumvent constitutional constraints on military development
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[2026-07-20 20:05 UTC+10:00] [West Philippine Sea] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines—The Department of National Defense (DND) on Monday condemned the latest incident involving the China Coast Guard (CCG) against the Philippine Navy personnel assigned to BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal.
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[2026-07-20 20:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: HONG KONG — Oil scaled back gains after hitting its highest price in a month on Monday as Iran said diplomatic exchanges with the United States were ongoing via mediators despite renewed conflict in the Middle East.
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[2026-07-20 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-20 19:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: After years of being the primary backer of the internationally recognised government in Tripoli, Turkiye is now rapidly expanding its military footprint to a rival authority in eastern Libya.
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[2026-07-20 19:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL, South Korea — Russian President Vladimir Putin met with North Korea’s foreign minister and thanked Pyongyang for supporting his war against Ukraine, in the latest high-level diplomacy between the countries, Russian state media reported.
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[2026-07-20 19:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. Treasury yields edged higher on Monday as Wall Street monitors the latest developments amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.
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[2026-07-20 19:00 UTC+10:00] [US Senate] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Senator says Trump revisiting failed run against Biden ‘distracts from important things’ such as Iran war
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[2026-07-20 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Regulation] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.
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[2026-07-20 18:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli fire killed two Palestinians during an army-backed settler attack in the occupied West Bank on Sunday.
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[2026-07-20 18:55 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Staff reporter at The Korea Herald’s National Desk, based in Seoul. Covers South Korea’s national security and foreign policy, with a focus on the Defense, Foreign and Unification Ministries, as well as the National Assembly.Before entering journalism, served as an Air Force officer. Experience includes providing translation and interpretation, as well as strategic input for planning efforts, at the ROK-US Combined Forces Command.
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[2026-07-20 18:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Gas pumps are seen at a gas station in Buffalo Grove, Thursday, June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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[2026-07-20 18:39 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: HIGH-RISK ZONE. A cargo vessel leaves a Black Sea port in Odesa, Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine war, March 26, 2025.
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[2026-07-20 18:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Residents look at their ruined home following a Russian air guided bomb strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
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