Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-17 08:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The situation in the Strait of Hormuz “will never return to what it was before the 40-day war,” Iranian armed forces spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari said.
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[2026-07-17 07:39 UTC+10:00] [Artificial Intelligence] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BERLIN — Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron opened two days of Franco-German talks Thursday with a pledge to strengthen Europe’s military, industrial and technological power, seeking to display that the continent’s key relationship can still deliver despite recent setbacks.
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[2026-07-17 07:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US Vice-President JD Vance has accused some members of the Israeli government of trying to influence Americans' opinions to prolong the Iran war.
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[2026-07-17 07:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: The fire, which broke out near Ores in Spain’s northeastern Aragon region on 15 July during an intense heatwave, quickly spread across dry vegetation, prompting the precautionary evacuation of at least five villages. Authorities moved residents to safety as thick smoke blanketed the area and rapidly advancing flames threatened homes, farmland and critical infrastructure.
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[2026-07-17 07:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Knesset plenum passed late Thursday night the bill to extend mandatory military service to 32 months.
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[2026-07-17 07:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Chevron is discussing investments in two major Iraqi oilfields as Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi seeks deals to revitalise an energy sector hammered by the Iran war.
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[2026-07-17 07:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia is weighing different options to deal with the Houthis, who are escalating their threats against the kingdom in a sign officials and analysts say could forebode a return to fighting in Yemen.
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[2026-07-17 07:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States has continued its attacks against Iran for a sixth consecutive night, with strikes targeting infrastructure in the country’s south, according to local media reports.
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[2026-07-17 06:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Several Palestinians have been injured in separate attacks across the occupied West Bank amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
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[2026-07-17 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his wartime government, drawing thousands into the streets Thursday across Ukraine to protest the ouster of his youthful defense minister — seen as an innovator of the country’s successful drone technology but who clashed with the traditional military establishment.
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[2026-07-17 06:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-07-17 06:13 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-07-17 06:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Syria has seized a shipment of weapons, including missiles, at its border with Iraq, as authorities say they foiled an attempt to smuggle arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon, something the group denies.
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[2026-07-17 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In 1897, Theodor Herzl entered the Stadtcasino in Basel and turned it into the first headquarters of the modern Zionist movement. The delegates gathered there had no army, no government, no sovereign territory and no assurance that history would take them seriously. They possessed little more than an idea, a congress and the audacity to begin.
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[2026-07-17 05:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-17 05:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, center, speaks with an aide during a markup on the Fiscal Year 2027 spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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[2026-07-17 05:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian strikes targeted a number of vital facilities in Kuwait, Reuters reported, citing the country’s defence ministry.
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[2026-07-17 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz via Mavi Vatan Geopolitics,
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[2026-07-17 05:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump arrives at the United States Army War College for the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-07-17 05:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump arrives at the United States Army War College for the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-07-17 05:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-17 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Yemen's Houthis have long warned of their ability to close the Red Sea oil route, but have by and large stayed on the sidelines of the expanding Gulf regional conflict which is focused on Iran since Operation Epic Fury began.
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[2026-07-17 05:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump departs on Marine One after speaking at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-07-17 05:03 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: His comments come after 103 House Democrats backed an unsuccessful bid to halt billions in military aid to Israel
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[2026-07-17 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The government announced on Thursday that it has approved a comprehensive reform for handling the massive spike in wounded and traumatized soldiers from the last three years of war.
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[2026-07-17 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Trump administration is expected to broaden the scope of its military campaign against Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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[2026-07-17 04:38 UTC+10:00] [Air defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — There could not be a worse moment for an internal brawl, but that is exactly what's unfolding in Kyiv, with a hasty reshuffle underway to make spy chief Yevhenii Khmara Ukraine's new interim defense minister.
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[2026-07-17 04:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran has accused the United States of committing a “cowardly war crime” by striking near a children’s cancer hospital and compared its actions to Israel’s targeting of healthcare facilities in Gaza.
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[2026-07-17 04:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-17 04:25 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President says he had to choose ‘one side or the other’ after breakdown of relations between ministry and military leaders
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[2026-07-17 04:25 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President says he had to choose ‘one side or the other’ after breakdown of relations between ministry and military leaders
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[2026-07-17 04:19 UTC+10:00] [US politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: More than 100 Democrats voted to cut military aid to Israel as US public opinion shifts – Republicans are noticing too
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[2026-07-17 04:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatar has “categorically rejected” Israeli media reports that the country agreed to participate in military action against Iran, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.
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[2026-07-17 03:53 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine War] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
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[2026-07-17 03:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Clashes between rival criminal gangs in northern Sudan have left eight people dead in the latest sign of rising crime in parts of the country as the civil war continues to rage.
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[2026-07-17 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Europe’s lead agency fighting drug trafficking, the Maritime Analysis and Operations Center (MAOC), released a “call to action memo” this spring, urging countries to allow the “use of force during maritime pursuits, allowing for engine-disabling tactics and shooting,” confidential documents seen by the Washington Post, German broadcaster NDF, LeMonde in France, and NRC in the Netherlands found.
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[2026-07-17 03:29 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: London: Britain has hit back at Argentina over a contested claim to the Falkland Islands in an escalating argument that includes calls to build up the Royal Navy more than four decades after the two nations went to war.
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[2026-07-17 03:25 UTC+10:00] [War in Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that the head of the country's security services, Yevhenii Khmara, will be appointed as acting defense minister.
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[2026-07-17 03:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The US Department of State has approved a potential $1.96bn weapons sale to Saudi Arabia.
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[2026-07-17 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Sergey Poletaev, information analyst and publicist, co-founder and editor of the Vatfor project.
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[2026-07-17 03:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Sergey Poletaev, information analyst and publicist, co-founder and editor of the Vatfor project.
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[2026-07-17 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Abu Agila Mohammad Masud, accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, was in court on Thursday as legal representatives discussed airline baggage policies in place at the time.
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[2026-07-17 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Yemen's Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said on Thursday that all Saudi oil and other vital facilities would be targets for the group's missiles and drones if Riyadh escalated its involvement in the conflict.
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[2026-07-17 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US military leadership has held off on ordering an intelligence review to help determine the events surrounding the US-attributed strike that hit a school in Iran in the initial strikes during Operation Epic Fury, CNN reported on Thursday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.
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[2026-07-17 02:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The U.S. House on Wednesday rejected an amendment by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) that would have eliminated $3.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Israel, voting 314–104 to defeat the proposal.
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[2026-07-17 02:32 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Sixth day of fighting threatens to turn into all-out war and casts serious doubt on peace deal struck last month
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[2026-07-17 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image taken from video broadcast by Al-Masirah TV, a Houthi-controlled news channel, shows an explosion at the Sanaa International Airport compound during what the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said were several Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, July 13, 2026. (Al-Masirah TV via AP)
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[2026-07-17 02:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Vice President JD Vance has accused some members of Israel’s government of trying to influence US public opinion to oppose a deal to end the war with Iran.
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[2026-07-17 02:08 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-07-17 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The U.S. military said it ended its latest wave of airstrikes targeting Iran. Iran retaliated with missile and drone fire targeting Bahrain and Kuwait before dawn.
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