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'120 children' in The Independent, no number in RTÉ or ABC, on the same UN report

Three reports on one UN fact-finding mission. One says the United States "likely committed war crimes", one says the strike "amounts to war crime", one says the mission "believes" the US was behind it.

US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds
US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds as published by The Independent · seen at The Independent
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The finding. A UN-backed fact-finding mission said it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks in the 28 February strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab. All three reports we hold carry that conclusion; none disputes it.

The wording hardens through the day.

Outlet Published (UTC) How the finding is put A death toll?
RTÉ News 08:24 mission "had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes" none
ABC News (Australia) 11:40 "US strike on Minab school amounts to war crime" none
The Independent 14:59 US "likely committed war crimes" with a "reckless" strike "more than 150", "around 120 schoolchildren", state media "168"

The numbers. Only The Independent counts, and it gives three figures, each attributed, none reconciled. It also writes that "no final public accounting of the incident has been released". No report we hold names a person killed at the school.

Scope. Only The Independent reports the mission also finding Iran committed crimes against humanity against its own protesters. ABC puts both in one sentence; RTÉ does not mention Iran's conduct.

Not settled. Who struck Lamerd. The Independent reports the mission calling that second 28 February strike indiscriminate and a war crime, and quotes US Central Command saying US forces launched no strikes into the city that day. No other report we hold mentions Lamerd. The toll at Minab is not settled either.

What this is about. A panel of independent experts reporting to the United Nations has blamed the United States for bombing an Iranian primary school, and the three reports we hold state that blame with three different degrees of firmness.

How it got here. The UN Human Rights Council — the body in Geneva where governments examine each other's rights records — set up the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran in 2022, after mass protests inside the country and the crackdown that followed. Such a mission investigates and publishes; it cannot arrest or prosecute anyone. Its remit was Iran's treatment of Iranians; this year it acquired a second subject. The Independent reports that a US-Israeli war on Iran began in February 2026, and that the school in Minab was struck on 28 February "soon after" it started, alongside a strike on a sports centre. The same report describes fresh anti-government protests that "erupted in late December" and were put down by Tehran's security forces. The mission's findings cover both.

Who is in it. The mission, chaired by the Bangladeshi jurist Sara Hossain. The United States: The Independent reports that in June President Donald Trump said "nobody" purposefully attacked a girls' school in Iran in February, that US Central Command denies striking Lamerd, and that the administration has not published a Pentagon inquiry into the bombing. Iran: Tehran, the same report says, blames the unrest on "terrorists and rioters" backed by foreign adversaries.

What is at stake. A finding, not a verdict. The mission asked both governments to stop, to pay reparations and to guarantee non-repetition, and asked other states to pursue accountability under universal jurisdiction — national courts elsewhere, because no UN court is waiting to take this.

Where it stands. The report goes to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Independent says neither the US nor the Iranian mission there answered its request for comment.

What is being argued about

  • How firmly the UN finding is stated — "believes", "amounts to", "likely committed"
  • Whether a death toll is given at all, and whose figures it is
  • Whether Iran's crackdown on its own protesters belongs in the same story
  • The disputed second strike, at Lamerd
One finding, three ways of saying itSide by side
OutletThe finding, as publishedDeath tollIran's crackdown?
RTÉ Newsmission "had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes"none givennot mentioned
ABC News (Australia)headline: "US strike on Minab school amounts to war crime"none givenyes — "crimes against humanity by their own government"
The IndependentUS "likely committed war crimes" with a "reckless" strike; quotes the mission on "indiscriminate attacks""more than 150", "around 120 schoolchildren" (Iranian officials); "168" (state media)yes — a crackdown in which "at least 221 children were reportedly killed"
What each report published on 17 September 2026, in its own words. A count of what was measured, not a rating of any outlet.
Sources The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20313 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service UN-backed experts find US strike on Minab school amounts to war crime Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC UN mission believes US behind strikes on Iran school Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
From the strike to the three reportsTimeline
  1. Sat 28 Feb 2026≈10:00 IRST The Independent: strikes in the area began around 10am IRST The United States struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab with Tomahawk missiles, the mission found no figure at the timeThe Independent notes Iran's working week runs Saturday to Thursday, so the school would have been occupied.
  2. Sat 28 Feb 2026≈10:45 IRST The Independent, citing Iranian authorities Iranian authorities reported the initial strikes in the area —Social media reports followed at around 11:30am, The Independent says.
  3. March 2026— no time published US Central Command said US forces did not launch any strikes into the city of Lamerd that day —Lamerd is the second strike the mission calls a war crime. Only The Independent carries either.
  4. June 2026— no time published US President Donald Trump said "nobody" purposefully attacked a girls' school in Iran in February —The Independent adds that Reuters first reported an initial internal US military investigation finding US forces likely responsible.
  5. Thu 17 Sep 202608:24 published time, UTC RTÉ News reports the mission "had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes" no toll
  6. Thu 17 Sep 202611:40 published time, UTC ABC News (Australia) headlines that the strike "amounts to war crime" no toll
  7. Thu 17 Sep 202614:59 published time, UTC The Independent reports the US "likely committed war crimes" and prints the figures more than 150; around 120 children; 168 (state media)It adds that no final public accounting has been released.
Times for 17 September are the published times on the reports, in UTC. Everything before that date is as The Independent reports it.
Sources The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20313 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service UN-backed experts find US strike on Minab school amounts to war crime Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC UN mission believes US behind strikes on Iran school Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

One report carries the numbers

Only the longest report gives any death toll, and it gives three — Iranian officials' 150-plus, around 120 schoolchildren, state media's 168 — each attributed, none reconciled. The two short reports name the finding and no figure. Nobody killed in the school is named in any report.

3 reports on the strike 1 reports giving any death toll 3 tolls in the one report that counts 0 reports naming a person killed

Same actor, three verbs

All three reports put the United States at the centre of the sentence, but the verb changes: "committed the war crime", "amounts to war crime", "was behind". The longest report carries a US denial on the second strike and notes both missions in Geneva did not reply. Iran's crackdown is written with the same construction — Tehran named as acting, Tehran's denial recorded.

3 reports naming the US as the actor 1 reports carrying a US denial or non-reply 1 reports carrying Tehran's denial
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20313 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service UN-backed experts find US strike on Minab school amounts to war crime Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC UN mission believes US behind strikes on Iran school Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

true A UN-backed fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed a war crime in the 28 February strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab.
The Independent quotes the mission's finding directly, and RTÉ News and ABC News (Australia) both report the same conclusion; no report we hold contradicts it. All three rest on the same mission report, which is the document the claim is about.
Checked against 3 sources:
The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20313 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC UN mission believes US behind strikes on Iran school Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service UN-backed experts find US strike on Minab school amounts to war crime Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified The Minab strike killed more than 150 people, including about 120 schoolchildren.
Only The Independent carries figures, and it attributes them to Iranian officials while noting state media put the toll at 168 and that no final public accounting has been released. RTÉ News and ABC News (Australia) give no casualty numbers at all.
Checked against 1 source:
The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20313 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
disputed US forces carried out the second 28 February strike, on a sports complex and residential area in Lamerd.
The Independent reports the mission concluded the Lamerd strike was indiscriminate and a war crime, and in the same report quotes US Central Command saying US forces launched no strikes into Lamerd that day. No other report we hold mentions Lamerd.
Checked against 1 source:
The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20313 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

M Maryam Zakir-Hussain The Independent
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Denial carried the only US response on the second strike is a flat denial, unchallenged×1
Evaluative adjective in headline the report is characterised before it is described×1
Headline the body does not carry the headline names Riyadh and Tehran; the body is only about a White House press ban×1
Headline the body does not support the headline puts Riyadh inside the Iran-US war, but the body is only about Trump's White House press ban×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed2 unverified2 true
From 63 reports we hold under this byline, at The Independent. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting. · 2 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

The Independent
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Independent 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at The Independent → What we have measured Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1 from 20313 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report carrying figures — three tolls for Minab, all attributed — plus the second strike at Lamerd, US Central Command's denial of it, and the mission's finding of crimes against humanity by Tehran.
News World Middle East US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds UN fact finding mission also found that Iran committed crimes against humanity, with a deadly crackdown on its own citizens who protested against the regime Maryam Zakir-Hussain Thursday 17 September 2026 15:59 BST Bookmark Bookmark popover Removed from bookmarks Close popover Trump says US ‘hopefully’ nearing end of war with Iran Your support helps us to tell the story Read more Support Now From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Ind
Headline vs body: headline states a toll the body attributes — “US likely committed war crimes with ‘reckless’ strike on Iran school that killed 120 children, damning UN report finds”
Measure chosen: three tolls in one sentence, each sourced — “Iranian officials stated that more than 150 people were killed in the strike, including around 120 schoolchildren, while state media placed the total death toll at 168.”
Who is named as acting: US named as the actor, inside the mission's finding — “the mission found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects”
Naming the dead: counted, never named; no final figure — “No final public accounting of the incident has been released.”
Evaluative adjective in headline: the report is characterised before it is described — “damning UN report finds”
Who is named as acting: the strike appears with no actor named — “The deadly incident took place in February this year”
Rival death tolls attributed: two figures, each given its source, with no reconciliation — “Iranian officials stated that more than 150 people were killed in the strike, including around 120 schoolchildren, while state media placed the total death toll at 168.”
Denial carried: the only US response on the second strike is a flat denial, unchallenged — “US Central Command said in a statement in March”
Read it at The Independent → https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/un-us-iran-war-cri…
ABC News (Australia)
Centre estimate · not a score
ABC News (Australia) 🇦🇺AU · public broadcaster · public-service UN-backed experts find US strike on Minab school amounts to war crime Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at ABC News (Australia) → What we have measured Actor label and hedge The same man is called 'far-right' and named by his legal name. The act is hedged with 'allegedly', where the longer report states it flat. ×1A different count, stated flat one dead and 140 missing, unattributed, earliest of the four ×1Affected counted The only report to count the local people affected ×1Are the dead named one of the dead named, through a relative at the hospital ×1 from 4667 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — public-service
Its headline is the flattest of the three, saying the strike "amounts to war crime", while its one-sentence body drops that wording and says Iranians were caught between their own government and the conflict with the US
'Reasonable grounds' US committed war crimes in Iran, human rights experts say Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War Posted Thu 17 Sep 2026 at 9:40pmThu 17 Sep 2026 at 9:40pmThu 17 Sep 2026 at 9:40pm A US attack on an Iranian school in Minab amounted to a war crime under international law, an independent fact-finding mission has concluded. (AP: Vahid Salemi) In short: An independent fact-finding mission on Iran has found "reasonable grounds" the US committed war crimes, with strikes on a school and a sports centre. The United Nations-backed human rights experts also found Iranian authorities committe
Framing: body drops the war crime finding its own headline carries — “A fact-finding mission on Iran, backed by the United Nations, finds Iranian citizens have been caught between crimes against humanity by their own government and deadly conflict with the US and Israel.”
Symmetry of blame: both governments named as wronging the same civilians in one sentence — “caught between crimes against humanity by their own government and deadly conflict with the US and Israel”
Read it at ABC News (Australia) → https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/reasonable-grounds-us-war-crimes…
R RTÉ News
Centre estimate · not a score
RTÉ News 🇮🇪IE · digital · PUBLIC UN mission believes US behind strikes on Iran school Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at RTÉ News → What we have measured Abstraction as the actor the dispute acts and no one in it is named ×1Account taken as default the police description of the crowd as 'hostile' is carried with no other account ×1Accuracy the Slovenia entry in the country list repeats Austria's name ×1Active voice offender Donaldson is named as the one who did the abuse, in the active voice. ×1 from 2361 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — PUBLIC
The most hedged, and the earliest out: the mission "believes", two strikes rather than one, no casualty figure, no mention of Iran's own conduct.
UN mission believes US behind strikes on Iran school Updated / Thursday, 17 Sep 2026 09:24 A view from inside the destroyed Shajareh Tayebeh primary school in Minab A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes. It also found that Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their deadly crackdown on anti-government protests. The findings in a new report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on
How hard the claim is stated: "was behind" and no casualty figure at all — “said it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February”
Certainty in headline: belief-framed where the other two headlines assert — “UN mission believes US behind strikes on Iran school”
Read it at RTÉ News → https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0917/1591867-iran-school-strikes-un/
Checked, didn’t cover
T The Irish Times
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The Irish Times 🇮🇪IE · digital · No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor framing The release is framed as a joint agreement, with no pressure mentioned ×1Actor named Names the residents as the ones who blocked the road ×1Actor named killers named as 'loyalist gunmen'; verb 'shot dead' ×1With no actor named construction no actor named for the theft or the driving in the standfirst ×1 from 1358 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → R RNZ
Centre estimate · not a score
RNZ 🇳🇿NZ · digital · PUBLIC No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Headline against body headline claims a 20-year decline reversed; the first line of the body reports a new low in reading ×1Headline against body headline claims a turnaround; the text carries a record low and puts it on boys ×1 from 2328 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Guardian
Centre-left estimate · not a score
The Guardian 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1 from 10552 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → C CBC News
Centre-left estimate · not a score
CBC News 🇨🇦CA · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1 from 2730 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
We could not read these
BBC News
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BBC News 🇬🇧UK · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Dating and attribution 'It was not until Tuesday' is a judgement about delay, not a date. No other report we hold comments on how long the German finding took. ×1How hard the claim is stated Headline says the UN voted to adopt and replace; the last sentence of the report says the vote is non-binding ×1How hard the claim is stated The qualification arrives in the last sentence and is immediately overridden by an effect the report gives no source for. ×1Which figure is used States the replacement as done — the Assembly voted to replace the map — where the resolution urges states to use a different projection. ×1 from 473 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Daily Telegraph
Right estimate · not a score
The Daily Telegraph 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Times
Centre-right estimate · not a score
The Times 🇬🇧UK · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times →
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