Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-18 08:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States Army has launched a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran, as a military adviser to the Iranian supreme leader warns of a full-scale offensive if US attacks continue.
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[2026-07-18 08:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Five explosions were heard in the early hours of Saturday in Yazd, in central Iran, the state news agency IRNA reported, after the US military announced a seventh night of strikes against the country.
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[2026-07-18 08:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has lambasted Western governments for pushing for war with Russia and banning RT in order to freely disseminate the warmongering “propaganda of the ruling class.”
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[2026-07-18 08:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters slammed Western governments for pushing for war with Russia and banning RT so the warmongering “propaganda of the ruling class” can be freely disseminated.
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[2026-07-18 07:54 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: LIVE, FREE and EXCLUSIVE
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[2026-07-18 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s ICBM test from a nuclear-powered submarine is a win from a defence perspective but comes with greater responsibilities
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[2026-07-18 07:30 UTC+10:00] [United States] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s ICBM test from a nuclear-powered submarine is a win from a defence perspective but comes with greater responsibilities
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[2026-07-18 07:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran fired several ballistic missiles and drones towards Kuwait on Friday, Kuwait's military stated in an X/Twitter post citing Kuwaiti Defense Ministry Spokesperson Maj.-Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi.
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[2026-07-18 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Punjab villager Charanjit Singh stands by a statue of his Agniveer son Ajay Singh, who died aged 24 in Jammu and Kashmir in 2024. The soldier's death received national media attention and was debated in India's parliament. (Photo by Nipun Prabhakar)
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[2026-07-18 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Newly released footage shows the moment a bomb exploded in an assassination attempt on exiled Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev in Monaco last month.
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[2026-07-18 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Newly released footage shows the moment a bomb exploded in an assassination attempt on exiled Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev in Monaco last month.
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[2026-07-18 06:52 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Central Command says attacks were designed to ‘continue degrading Iranian military capabilities’
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[2026-07-18 06:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An AR-15 style rifle is fired at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), National Services Center on March 2, 2023, in Martinsburg, W.Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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[2026-07-18 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-18 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Nadezhdin briefly needed medical treatment when he appeared in court on Friday
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[2026-07-18 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israel has built one of the most sophisticated national security systems in human history.
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[2026-07-18 05:23 UTC+10:00] [Defense and Military Forces] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: An Israeli strike killed at least seven people and injured a number of others in central Gaza on Friday, according to hospital officials, the latest in a surge in attacks in the territory.
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[2026-07-18 05:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-07-18 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Crowds took to the streets of Kyiv on Thursday following the removal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov
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[2026-07-18 04:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military commander responsible for the occupied West Bank has praised illegal settler outposts as security assets, laying bare the state support behind a network instrumental in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land.
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[2026-07-18 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Iraq and Syria signed an agreement on Friday to rebuild an oil pipeline that would provide an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-07-18 04:33 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The president’s Orwellian speech on Thursday was just the latest instance of his denialism. It is up to us to resist
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[2026-07-18 04:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The security situation in the Strait of Hormuz has returned to a "worse-case scenario" for oil tankers as Iran has repeatedly attacked ships over the past week, the CEO of a maritime risk services firm said.
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[2026-07-18 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The failure to criticise Israel’s actions in Gaza while condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked accusations of double-standards and “cherry-picking” international law that will dog departing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Middle East legacy, experts have said.
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[2026-07-18 03:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian in Gaza before a second bombing killed eight more people at the funeral hours later, health officials said on Friday.
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[2026-07-18 03:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-18 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Kuwait is negotiating an expanded defence agreement with Pakistan in exchange for energy cooperation and investment with the South Asian country, according to a Reuters report.
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[2026-07-18 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The IRGC Navy Command said on Friday that the movements and military equipment of US forces are “under the surveillance” of Iran’s naval units.
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[2026-07-18 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-18 02:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Around 500 undersea cables carry 99% of international data traffic. (NEC)
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[2026-07-18 02:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Multiple Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 14 Palestinians, more than half of them in a drone strike on a funeral procession.
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[2026-07-18 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Tax Authority Director Shay Aharonovich sent a scathing letter to Bnei Brak Mayor Hanoch Zeibert on Thursday, ordering the suspension of war damage claims in the city after Tax Authority employees were attacked earlier that day.
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[2026-07-18 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-07-18 01:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military commander responsible for the occupied West Bank has praised illegal settler outposts as security assets, laying bare the state support behind a network instrumental in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land.
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[2026-07-18 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran's large-scale 'retaliation' on US bases and Gulf states overnight included a rare first if confirmed. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it conducted a missile or drone attack on an American special operations command center at al-Tanf in Syria on Friday.
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[2026-07-18 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Kirill Kalinin, Senior Counsellor and spokesperson of the Russian Embassy in South Africa
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[2026-07-18 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Kirill Kalinin, Senior Counsellor and spokesperson of the Russian Embassy in South Africa
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[2026-07-18 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, his ex-wife tells AP. (AP video by Mike Householder, Amanda Swinhart and Rodrique Ngowi)
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[2026-07-18 01:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Russia carried out several deadly attacks in Ukraine, including reportedly killing two people aboard a foreign vessel, as Ukrainians took to the streets for a second day to protest against the removal of the defence minister.
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[2026-07-18 01:17 UTC+10:00] [Artificial Intelligence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BERLIN — France and Germany pledged Friday to look at developing an alternative to military software provided by U.S. company Palantir, as European countries seek to lessen reliance on America.
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[2026-07-18 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Apple's legal fight with OpenAI is spilling well beyond the courtroom. A week after suing the ChatGPT maker over alleged theft of its hardware secrets, Apple's lawyers have sent personal document-preservation letters to about 40 former Apple employees now working at OpenAI, according to the Financial Times - roughly 10 percent of the some 400 ex-Apple staff now at the company.
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[2026-07-18 01:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, left, talks with French President Emmanuel Macron as they arrive for a press conference following a meeting of the Franco-German Ministerial Council in Brühl, Germany, Friday, July 17, 2026. (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP)
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[2026-07-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Industry data shows China’s shipyards secured 82 per cent of tanker orders placed this year, as measured by carrying capacity
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[2026-07-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Industry data shows China’s shipyards secured 82 per cent of tanker orders placed this year, as measured by carrying capacity
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[2026-07-18 00:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A virtual meeting between Lebanese and Israeli military delegations scheduled for Friday to discuss the first pilot zones in south Lebanon has been postponed, Lebanese political and security sources have told The National.
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[2026-07-18 00:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The UAE economy is set to rebound in the second half of this year despite the regional war, amid an exports recovery following its exit from Opec, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday.
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[2026-07-18 00:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A power plant in Kuwait and five bridges in Iran have been struck in the latest exchange of fire across the Arabian Gulf as the scope of the fighting expands into infrastructure.
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[2026-07-18 00:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A power plant in Kuwait and five bridges in Iran have been struck in the latest exchange of fire across the Arabian Gulf as the scope of the fighting expands into infrastructure.
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[2026-07-18 00:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Having rebounded from record (46 year) lows in June, University of Michigan's preliminary July Sentiment survey was expected to show further improvement as gas prices fell since the US-Iran 'peace' MoU signing (before rising modestly in the last few days of the reignited conflict).
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[2026-07-17 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Iran on Friday accused the United States of bombing civilian infrastructure in its latest wave of airstrikes since peace talks collapsed last week.
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