Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-02 11:58 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Australian economy grew by 0.4 per cent through the June quarter as consumers spent more on electric vehicles as they dealt with the fallout from the war in Iran.
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[2026-09-02 11:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced strikes on US facilities in Jordan in retaliation to Washington's attack on a wedding, which killed and wounded several civilians.
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[2026-09-02 11:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hello, this is Anniek Bao writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC's Daily Open.
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[2026-09-02 11:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Yonhap) -- Hanwha Aerospace Co. said Wednesday that a U.S. Army delegation visited its Changwon plant following the U.S. Army's selection of the company's K9-based system for an artillery prototype program.
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[2026-09-02 11:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US military struck two Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) tankers on Tuesday in the first direct retaliatory attack on Iranian ships since the beginning of the war, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing US officials.
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[2026-09-02 11:42 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has added to Canada’s growing list of grievances against the Trump administration by mocking the appearance of female military cadets in a nighttime social media jibe.
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[2026-09-02 11:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran has accused the United States of bombing a house during a wedding celebration in the southern county of Sirik, killing at least five people, including a child.
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[2026-09-02 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Answer to strategic airlift shortage is becoming a family of support aircraft able to sustain combat missions deep into western Pacific
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[2026-09-02 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Taiwan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Answer to strategic airlift shortage is becoming a family of support aircraft able to sustain combat missions deep into western Pacific
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[2026-09-02 10:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US military on Tuesday attacked two Iranian government tankers, according to Axios citing American officials,
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[2026-09-02 10:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Russian President Vladimir Putin has outlined Russia’s accelerating battlefield gains in Ukraine, denounced Kiev’s increasingly desperate threats to civilian aviation as a bid for “state terrorism,” and warned that British military facilities on Ukrainian soil would be “legitimate targets.”
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[2026-09-02 10:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. forces completed another wave of strikes against Iran late Tuesday stateside, hitting multiple sites across the country, in a renewed exchange of fire between the warring parties after a nearly month-long hiatus.
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[2026-09-02 10:35 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Germany accuses Russia over Leipzig airport attack, citing solid evidence; Russian economy in risky ‘berserk mode’ says Putin development tsar. What we know on day 1,652
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[2026-09-02 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: University of Chicago professor Robert Pape tore into Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's so-called "Economic D-Day" campaign against Iran, branding it a dangerous "escalation trap" that history shows will not force Tehran to fold, and may instead drag the United States deeper into war.
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[2026-09-02 10:26 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korean stocks started sharply lower Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street, as the United States and Iran continued exchanging military attacks, which pushed up oil prices.
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[2026-09-02 10:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Tyler Robinson consults with defence attorney Staci Visser on 1 September 2026
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[2026-09-02 10:22 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: ATTACK. Iranian missiles are launched, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had carried out attacks against a U.S. base in Jordan and 21 other targets in the Gulf on Wednesday in retaliation for American strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, from a location given as Tehran, Iran, released June 10, 2026, in this still image taken from a video.
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[2026-09-02 10:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Hung Cao speaks during the Republican National Convention, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
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[2026-09-02 10:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Bahrain's air defence systems "successfully intercepted and destroyed" Iranian drones that targeted the country, the official Bahrain News Agency reported.
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[2026-09-02 10:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks started sharply lower Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street, as the United States and Iran continued exchanging military attacks, which pushed up oil prices.
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[2026-09-02 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The below Trump exchange with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday seems a tacit admission from the Commander-in-Chief that yes, the United States is running out of standoff munitions...
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[2026-09-02 08:37 UTC+10:00] [Pete Hegseth] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The sudden departure of Daniel Driscoll comes after Pentagon chief removed senior officers and blocked promotions, prompting warnings of a leadership crisis
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[2026-09-02 08:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Kuwait's army said on Tuesday that its air defences are currently responding to "hostile drone" attacks.
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[2026-09-02 08:33 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-09-02 08:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: CHICAGO — U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Apple to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its maps app, his administration's interior chief said Monday, days after signing an executive order over the body of water now in the spotlight amid his escalating trade war with Canada.
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[2026-09-02 08:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel plans to “scale up” the export of the layered air-defence system it sold to Greece, with the UAE as its desired buyer, one current and one former US official familiar with ongoing discussions told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-09-02 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Defence ministry says PLA exercises are increasingly focused on plans to cut off the island and control air and sea routes
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[2026-09-02 08:00 UTC+10:00] [Taiwan blockade] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Defence ministry says PLA exercises are increasingly focused on plans to cut off the island and control air and sea routes
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[2026-09-02 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky just issued a crazy and unexpected threat which portends a major escalation in the war. Certainly it will provoke the Kremlin into even more uncontrolled escalation and massive strikes, such as has been (somewhat unusually) happening on Odesa port as well as the capital city of late.
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[2026-09-02 07:49 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Move from Washington quashes hopes that exchange of fire last weekend might not presage wider renewal of hostilities
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[2026-09-02 07:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
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[2026-09-02 07:35 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-09-02 07:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US and Iran traded strikes on Tuesday, as concerns rose that the weeks-long lull in the war is at an end.
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[2026-09-02 07:27 UTC+10:00] [Military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-09-02 07:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-09-02 07:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd), then concurrently headed by Vice President Sara Duterte, repurposed a routine Philippine Army certification to support a separate ₱15.54-million confidential-fund claim, House prosecution spokesperson and Lanao Del Sur 1st District Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong said Tuesday.
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[2026-09-02 07:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-09-02 06:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday warned airlines and passengers that Russian airspace would be "completely unsafe" and filled with Ukrainian drones for the duration of the war.
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[2026-09-02 06:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-09-02 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold its ban on transgender troops serving in the military, appealing a lower court ruling that has, for now, blocked enforcement against service members already in uniform.
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[2026-09-02 06:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Stocks fell on Wall Street as another round of U.S. military strikes on Iran sent oil prices higher, stoking worries about stubbornly high inflation.
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[2026-09-02 06:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel plans to “scale up” the export of the layered air-defence system it sold to Greece, with the UAE as its desired buyer, one current and one former US official familiar with ongoing discussions told Middle East Eye.
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[2026-09-02 05:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari stated that Iran “will no longer exercise restraint regarding Bahrain and Kuwait” in a post on X/Twitter shortly after the US launched renewed strikes against Iran on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-02 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Silicon Valley's entrepreneurialism has a dark side. (ABC News: Graphic by Jarrod Fankhauser)
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[2026-09-02 05:39 UTC+10:00] [Canada] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: A week before Canada is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American imports, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that the Trump administration must stop insulting his country if there was to be any hope of renewing trade talks.
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[2026-09-02 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A sweeping new oil production agreement between the US and Venezuela is a geopolitical opportunity for Washington to secure access to oilfields that have largely been under the influence of Chinese and Russian companies, a US official said on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-02 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel’s Ministries of Finance and Defence have clashed over the spiralling costs of Israel’s multiple and ongoing wars in the region, which are adding pressure to the government’s budget.
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[2026-09-02 05:18 UTC+10:00] [Business / Markets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Stocks fell and oil prices continued to climb following another round of US military strikes on Iran, stoking worries about stubbornly high inflation.
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[2026-09-02 05:17 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael – who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year – show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25m
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[2026-09-02 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
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