Topic: Weather — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-13 13:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-13 13:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Manila Mayor Isko Moreno ordered the suspension of afternoon classes at all levels in both public and private schools on Thursday, as the southwest monsoon (habagat) continued to bring rain across Metro Manila and nearby provinces.
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[2026-08-13 13:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Manila Mayor Isko Moreno ordered the suspension of afternoon classes at all levels in both public and private schools on Thursday, as the southwest monsoon (habagat) continued to bring rain across Metro Manila and nearby provinces.
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[2026-08-13 13:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Royal College of Nursing warns staff are collapsing as wards top 30 degrees Celsius while emergency services face record summer demand
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[2026-08-13 13:23 UTC+10:00] [united kingdom] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Royal College of Nursing warns staff are collapsing as wards top 30 degrees Celsius while emergency services face record summer demand
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[2026-08-13 13:18 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: TWS claimed the No. 1 spot on Billboard Japan’s Hot 100 with “Soda Soda,” according to the latest chart published Wednesday.
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[2026-08-13 13:04 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — First responders rescued more people from floodwaters Wednesday as utility crews cleared trees and wires downed by severe storms in the Midwest that unleashed tornadoes, heavy rains and flash flooding, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity.
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[2026-08-13 12:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A rare amber weather warning for extreme heat will come into effect across a large swathe of the UK on Thursday, with temperatures set to soar as high as 38C (100F).
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[2026-08-13 12:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: CHANGWON, South Korea, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- Firefighting water tankers and military vehicles from across the nation were mobilized Thursday to supply water to South Gyeongsang Province as a deepening drought grips the nation's southeast.
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[2026-08-13 11:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Parts of the country, including Metro Manila, will experience rains due to the prevailing southwest monsoon or habagat, the weather bureau said on Thursday.
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[2026-08-13 09:34 UTC+10:00] [Extreme weather] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days
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[2026-08-13 08:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-13 08:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Japan is facing worsening summer heat. In the past two months more than 53,000 people have been treated for heatstroke, with 79 reported deaths.
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[2026-08-13 07:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Last year, Alice Springs residents sweltered through 63 days of 40 degrees Celsius or more throughout the year, according to data from the Bureau of Meteorology. (ABC News: Hamish Harty)
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[2026-08-13 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A new series from British screenwriter Jack Thorne is usually exciting for a TV buff – as well as the gritty trilogy This Is England, the stage adaptation of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and dozens of other acclaimed works, Thorne was the co-writer of the groundbreaking series Adolescence.
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[2026-08-13 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: On June 24 last year, as Sydney basked in its warmest weather of the month, lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood spent the morning being grilled during a secret preliminary examination at the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
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[2026-08-13 03:32 UTC+10:00] [Africa] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Ukraine’s normally copious grain exports are stuck in the country — caught between Russian attacks in the Black Sea, drought on the Danube and distrust among Kyiv’s closest allies.
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[2026-08-13 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Western Europe has endured its hottest June-July period on record, with extreme heat, drought and wildfires gripping parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The WMO says the warming climate is making heatwaves more frequent, intense, longer and more widespread.
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[2026-08-13 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Welfare advocates call on authorities to take action as tenants grapple with steeper energy bills to ward off the heatwave
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[2026-08-13 00:18 UTC+10:00] [scmp] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Welfare advocates call on authorities to take action as tenants grapple with steeper energy bills to ward off the heatwave
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[2026-08-13 00:04 UTC+10:00] [Badgers] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Thanks to the drought, these black-and-white beauties are struggling to catch worms in the rock-hard earth. But there’s still good foraging on well-watered fairways and greens
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[2026-08-12 23:11 UTC+10:00] [US weather] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Winds of more than 80mph, severe flooding and tornadoes swept through Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky
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[2026-08-12 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MEDINACELI, Spain — Spaniards rushed to buy specialized glasses to view a rare total solar eclipse Wednesday, as authorities warned people flocking to rural areas to avoid anything that could spark new wildfires.
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[2026-08-12 22:26 UTC+10:00] [Shipping industry] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Falling water levels linked to weather system are expected to limit number of slots to transit shipping lane
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[2026-08-12 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Body camera footage shows how rescue teams found two women and 9-year-old boy who were stranded for three days when their river tubing trip went wrong.
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[2026-08-12 21:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A hot and exceptionally dry summer has disrupted Europe's nuclear power plants, prompting governments to take extraordinary measures to keep energy supplies running.
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[2026-08-12 20:41 UTC+10:00] [Extreme heat] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prime minister suggests possible measure as he prepares to chair emergency Cobra meeting in response to extreme heat
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[2026-08-12 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Soccer] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: On a cold, grey day in Melbourne, between a cow paddock and a housing estate, the dream of an A-League soccer club for the west was being dismantled piece by piece.
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[2026-08-12 19:04 UTC+10:00] [British politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Prime Minister Andy Burnham will lead a meeting of the government's emergency committee Wednesday afternoon in response to ongoing heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the U.K.
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[2026-08-12 18:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Search and rescue operations were underway on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba on Tuesday after a ferry capsized in bad weather.
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[2026-08-12 18:17 UTC+10:00] [Asia Pacific] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-08-12 18:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain. Daytime darkness will descend Aug. 12 across the Iberian Peninsula close to sunset — plus slivers of Greenland and Iceland — as the sun, moon and Earth align perfectly in the sky.
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[2026-08-12 16:36 UTC+10:00] [Extreme heat] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Making fun of the English is an Australian national pastime but the drought in Britain isn’t funny at all
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[2026-08-12 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Extreme weather] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The climate crisis is hitting Europe hard in 2026, warming twice as fast as any other continent. What is to blame?
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[2026-08-12 15:37 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Don’t let Two Weeks in August’s generic, placeholder-that-stuck title turn you off, nor its familiar premise – the resentments of the London vacationing class sizzle under the relentless late-summer heat of a gorgeous, unnamed Greek island.
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[2026-08-12 15:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: New Delhi, India – The vapour heat treatment (VHT) facility in Rehmanpur village of Lucknow, the capital of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh – used to sterilise fruit and vegetables – was preparing for the busiest time of the year when Japanese quarantine inspectors turned up in March.
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[2026-08-12 15:19 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The KBO League crossed the 9 million mark in cumulative attendance as play resumed following its break during the summer heat.
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[2026-08-12 15:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Parts of northern Hong Kong including Yuen Long and Ta Kwu Ling surpass 35 degrees before noon
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[2026-08-12 15:08 UTC+10:00] [Observatory] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Parts of northern Hong Kong including Yuen Long and Ta Kwu Ling surpass 35 degrees before noon
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[2026-08-12 15:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: As they escape the drought-blighted UK and try and relax on holiday, there is one nagging thought in the heads of senior City folks.
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[2026-08-12 14:43 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Fire trucks from fire departments across South Korea are gathered in South Gyeongsang Province after the government issued a national firefighting mobilization order to respond to the region’s worsening drought.
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[2026-08-12 14:43 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Forecasters warned the Chinese capital could receive more than one-third of its average annual rainfall over 24 hours
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[2026-08-12 14:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Some areas in the northern Philippines saw a month’s worth of rain in only nine days.
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[2026-08-12 14:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-12 14:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: About 2 million people in Somalia face emergency levels of food insecurity, more than double the number recorded last year, according to Plan International. In Baidoa, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing prolonged drought have gathered in sprawling displacement settlements on the outskirts of the city.
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[2026-08-12 13:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-08-12 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: It is perhaps a sign of the times that one of the UAE’s many small businesses is a company that produces an emergency response kit. Dr Daamini Shrivastav, a Dubai physician, co-founded the business with a friend to produce the Trooper Box – a package to help a family weather a storm with first-aid supplies, food bars and candles.
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[2026-08-12 12:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: ABC North and West SA
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[2026-08-12 12:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: ABC North and West SA
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[2026-08-12 12:21 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Periods of extreme heat are becoming more frequent, intense and longer-lasting as climate change warms the planet, the UN weather agency said Tuesday, noting changes since the famously hot European summer of 1976.
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