Topic: War & Conflict — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-29 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Poland has sent confusing signals regarding the potential deployment of nuclear weaponry on its territory, in what appears to be an attempt to enjoy the fruits of deterrence without hosting foreign munitions.
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[2026-08-29 04:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Poland has sent confusing signals regarding the potential deployment of nuclear weaponry on its territory, in what appears to be an attempt to enjoy the fruits of deterrence without hosting foreign munitions.
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[2026-08-29 04:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: For Mervyn McDonald the army was something he could never quite leave behind. He tried once and it did not last.
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[2026-08-29 04:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are seen from the Washington Monument, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-08-29 04:22 UTC+10:00] [Nepal-Tibet flood disaster] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Army helicopters ferry survivors from inaccessible areas to a camp at a barracks in Bidur
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[2026-08-29 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has said the Israeli military evacuated the residents and occupied the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-08-29 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Mohammed Shamlakh and his siblings are reviving their 1.2-hectare plot with grapevines and fig trees, after it was destroyed by Israeli military bulldozers in the Sheikh Ajlin neighbourhood in Gaza city.
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[2026-08-29 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Earlier this month, the UAE’s Cyber Security Council announced that its systems had thwarted a series of advanced and organised cyber attacks against the country’s aviation, energy and education sectors.
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[2026-08-29 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: NUWAKOT, Nepal — Aid began to reach some survivors in Nepal on Friday following the catastrophic flash floods that swept through the mountainous border region between Nepal and China, as the full scope of the devastation continued to emerge and survivors sought shelter at makeshift army relief centers.
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[2026-08-29 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For some time, I have argued that the cognitive war being waged against Israel must be recognized for what it has become: A national-security threat.
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[2026-08-29 03:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A transgender Israeli woman who served in Israel’s military intelligence directorate is facing deportation from the US after being convicted of imprisonment.
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[2026-08-29 03:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The Israeli army has killed three Palestinians in Jenin in a rare air strike in the occupied West Bank, amid growing tensions in the territory.
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[2026-08-29 03:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-29 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-08-29 03:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The president’s ‘little excursion’ in the Middle East grinds on, despite his earlier promise to voters to keep the US out of ‘endless wars’
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[2026-08-29 03:26 UTC+10:00] [Afghanistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The president’s ‘little excursion’ in the Middle East grinds on, despite his earlier promise to voters to keep the US out of ‘endless wars’
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[2026-08-29 03:05 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Moscow recruits an estimated 1,000 people a day but western officials say it cannot keep up with casualty level
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[2026-08-29 02:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A transgender Israeli woman who served in Israel’s military intelligence directorate is facing deportation from the US after being convicted of imprisonment.
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[2026-08-29 02:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The failure of both sides to adhere to the roadmap for peace “threatens a collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza”, Nikolay Mladenov, the high representative for the Board of Peace, has warned in an interview with Al Jazeera.
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[2026-08-29 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukraine has reinforced the defence of its eastern Donetsk region as Russia mounted renewed efforts to seize Sloviansk, a key part of Ukraine’s “fortress belt” of cities that include Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka.
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[2026-08-29 02:29 UTC+10:00] [Banks] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: KYIV — Before I go to sleep, I make a second bed — my air alert bed.
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[2026-08-29 02:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: After decades outside the bloc’s periphery, Iceland held a referendum on reopening membership talks with the EU. The Viking nation chose not to trade sovereignty for stability. Some 53% of voters opposed re-opening membership talks with Ursul von der Leyen's fractured bloc.
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[2026-08-29 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: President Trump has added fuel to the fire of controversy and speculation over the question of why CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise and highly rare trip to Moscow on Tuesday.
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[2026-08-29 02:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN — Iran left the door open to diplomacy on Friday, six months into a war with the United States that has upended the Middle East, but only if Washington abandons its pressure campaign.
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[2026-08-29 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL — South Korea said on Friday it would hold joint military exercises with the United States and Japan in September, after Washington scaled back annual drills with Seoul in an apparent bid to encourage dialogue with North Korea.
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[2026-08-29 02:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: GAP named industry veteran Michael Francis as Old Navy’s new CEO on Thursday to reinvigorate the struggling brand, while improved pricing led to a quarterly profit beat and a strong forecast for the wider company.
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[2026-08-29 02:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: APPARENTLY, in today’s Philippines, a steel bar no longer needs to only pass tensile strength, elongation and quality tests. It may also need geopolitical clearance.
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[2026-08-29 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Six months after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, a lot may have been destroyed but there is no end in sight to the conflict.
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[2026-08-29 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United States issued more Iran-related sanctions targeting one entity and one individual on Friday, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this week threatened further action amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-08-29 01:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at a news conference, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-08-29 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Around a dozen Israeli activists gathered outside European Union representative offices in east Jerusalem on 28 August, calling on the bloc to take a stronger position on the war in Gaza. Holding placards and chanting through a megaphone, the protesters accused the EU of remaining silent over what they described as war crimes and apartheid.
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[2026-08-29 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran has become stronger while the US has exposed its weakness during the conflict in the Middle East, which is still far from over, experts have told RT on the day marking six months since Washington and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-08-29 01:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iran has become stronger while the US has exposed its weakness during the conflict in the Middle East, which is still far from over, experts have told RT on the day marking six months since Washington and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-08-29 01:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Some moments in the history of liberation movements require courage to act; others require equal courage to wait.
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[2026-08-29 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: At least four people were killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to local health officials. Three men died in separate strikes in Gaza City, with their bodies taken to Shifa Hospital, while another person was killed when a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians was hit in southern Gaza.
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[2026-08-29 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Brent crude futures initially jumped overnight after The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump has no interest in reviving the memorandum of understanding (interim peace deal) reached with Iran in June. The war-risk premium in Brent has since faded in New York premarket trading amid mounting developments this week that major Gulf producers, including Kuwait and Qatar, are increasing tanker flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-29 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: France hopes to line its own arms manufacturers’ pockets with a €90 billion European Union loan to Ukraine by limiting Kiev's ability to procure weapons from outside the bloc, according to Euronews.
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[2026-08-29 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: France hopes to line its own arms manufacturers’ pockets with a €90 billion European Union loan to Ukraine by limiting Kiev's ability to procure weapons from outside the bloc, according to Euronews.
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[2026-08-29 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A Dutch court on Friday sentenced a 67-year-old man to life in prison for war crimes and genocide committed in Rwanda in 1994, where it said he had been involved in the killing of around 3,000 Tutsis who had sought refuge from Hutu attacks at a stadium.
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[2026-08-29 01:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Sweden's military will participate in the surveillance and protection of Finland's territory with Gripen fighter jets and a corvette warship, at least until the end of 2026, Finland's defense forces said on Friday.
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[2026-08-29 01:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Women from Srebrenica watch a live broadcast from the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague to learn the verdict for Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, on the screen, at the memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, Tuesday, June 8, 2021.(AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)
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[2026-08-29 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-08-29 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF killed a former Jenin terror cell leader and two additional terrorists in an IAF airstrike on their vehicle in the West Bank on Friday, the military confirmed in a joint statement with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
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[2026-08-29 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In what will likely prove to be a very limited and ultimately unfruitful diplomatic overture, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has newly announced that Tehran views renewed talks with Washington as not impossible, and that dialogue can actually get on track - but so long as the US understands that pressure does not work.
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[2026-08-29 00:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: A judge in Moscow on Friday sentenced Oleksiy Arestovych, a former adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, to 11 years in prison in absentia after finding him guilty of spreading false information about the Russian military and publicly calling for terrorism.
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[2026-08-29 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Sudan has lifted a two-year-old night-time curfew and a state of emergency in the capital, Khartoum, in a move authorities say will allow residents to move and work around the clock.
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[2026-08-28 23:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Crude oil prices have swung sharply over six months of war in Iran, rising almost two-thirds to nearly $120 a barrel before falling back as diplomatic efforts eased fears of a prolonged disruption to global supplies.
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[2026-08-28 23:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF killed a Hamas commander in Gaza's Al-Shati area on Thursday who participated in the October 7 massacre, the military said on Friday.
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[2026-08-28 23:15 UTC+10:00] [US military] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Thai navy says ‘routine’ visit’ will allow personnel to rest and recuperate amid reports of poor conditions onboard
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[2026-08-28 23:11 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenHattigauda, NepalChildren run to an army helicopter as rescue operations continue after fatal flash floods and mudslidesPhotograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPAShareView image in fullscreenKathmandu, NepalRelatives of people missing after the deadly floods wait outside the Tribhuvan University teaching hospitalPhotograph: Monika Malla/ReutersShareView image in fullscreenOslo, NorwayPeople gather at Palace Square to mourn King Harald V after news of his deathPhotograph: Thomas Andersen/NTB Scanpix/APShareView image in fullscreenMinab, IranA man who lost his son in February’s strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school,
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