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Kennedy says the US will be out of Iran 'in about 6 months'; Waltz says there is 'no timeline'
On the same Sunday, two Republicans gave two different answers about when the war with Iran will end. The war is now nearly seven months old. Neither report …
The Hill says the military asked for the arch's drones; NPR says a court is weighing whether it is legal
Nine reports, one Truth Social post. The Hill alone names a requester — the US military. NPR alone tells a reader a federal court is weighing the arch's …
Belgorod's acting governor says three civilians were killed in a day. Regnum calls the attacks deliberate; Interfax, on the same statement, does not.
Alexander Shuvaev, acting governor of Belgorod region, says Ukrainian forces attacked it 102 times in 24 hours, killing three civilians and injuring four. Five reports carry the deaths. …
Ukraine's Air Force counts 108 drones and hits in 11 places; Romania's defence ministry reports "a group of air targets" and names nobody
Russian drones hit Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Chuhuiv, the Dnipropetrovsk region and the Orlivka ferry crossing on the Romanian border overnight on 5–6 September. Four outlets carry it — three …
Ushakov says three hours and 10 minutes. Three other lengths went out, and one report puts Treasury officials in a room the rest keep them out of.
Witkoff and Kushner saw Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday evening. Eight of the reports we hold give the meeting a length, and between them they give four …
Kyiv's outlets and ASTRA name the Ryazan refinery; Interfax and Vedomosti name no facility at all
Drones reached Ryazan, Rostov, Kursk, Voronezh and Bryansk overnight on 5-6 September. Governor Pavel Malkov, whom every side quotes, said only that debris from downed drones started a …
Witkoff thanks Putin for a three-day truce. Putin says none was agreed — and Espreso counts five air-raid alerts over Kyiv.
Trump's envoys met Putin in the Kremlin on 5 September. Putin said he had ordered the strikes on Kyiv stopped at midnight, and that Russia never agreed to …
Le Figaro says Putin ordered a three-day halt on Kyiv. NOS says both presidents agreed one, with no end date.
Witkoff and Kushner saw Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday. Four of the eight reports we hold on the day carry a pause in strikes on the two …
Middle East Eye puts the UAE in the headline. The UN's own release says "several countries".
The UN fact-finding mission for Sudan says a transnational network armed and staffed the Rapid Support Forces, and names the Emirates among the countries it operated from. Three …
France 24 says 129 dead in a Houthi push for Bab al-Mandab. Al Jazeera says dozens, and the hills retaken are at Taiz.
Houthi forces attacked government lines on Yemen's Red Sea side on Thursday. France 24, running AFP, leads on 129 dead and an offensive to seize the Bab al-Mandab …
Von der Leyen calls Leipzig “a new escalation on European Union soil”. Trump says Putin has no intention of attacking NATO.
Germany blamed Russia on 1 September for a drone attack at Leipzig/Halle airport on 4 August. Three days later Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin would not attack NATO …
Al-Monitor writes 'the Iran war'. Gulf News writes 'Iran conflict' and says Trump denies it is one.
Trump said Friday that the fighting with Iran is "small potatoes" for the United States. Al-Monitor and LBCI report it as a war in their own voice; Gulf …
An-Nahar says Klitschko counted at least five injured. Le Figaro and The Independent give no toll.
A Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine's security service in central Kyiv on Friday, Zelensky said. Three reports, three accounts: one carries a casualty figure and the …
LBCI counts two martyrs in Kfar Rumman. An-Nahar counts two victims in Nabatieh. It is one strike.
An Israeli drone hit a motorcycle in south Lebanon on Friday evening. Two reports give a toll and they agree: two dead. They disagree on the town and …
Al-Monitor says the UN found a possible crime against humanity. An-Nahar says ethnic cleansing.
The UN human rights office says Israel forced more than 33,000 Palestinians out of three West Bank refugee camps and still bars their return. Two reports carry the …
Zelensky says Witkoff and Kushner are in Kyiv on Sunday. The Independent says an envoy is 'scared' to go.
Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due in Moscow and then Kyiv this weekend. Five reports name three different sources for that plan, two different days, …
Treasury says Golden Global moved money for the Revolutionary Guard. An-Nahar says on suspicion, IRNA says under a pretext.
The US Treasury designated a Turkish bank and two subsidiaries on Friday. Nobody disputes the designation. Seven reports carry three different certainties about what it was for, and …
One mountain, four names: seven reports state Trump's threat to Pickaxe Mountain, IRNA files it as 'Trump's claim'
Trump said on Friday the US 'may hit Pickaxe Mountain in Iran very soon'. Eight reports in five languages carry the words. They give the site four names, …
Ynet says Iran fired ballistic missiles at US bases in Jordan. A senior US official says Washington is "not aware" of any.
Three reports, two mastheads, no Jordanian voice. The launch reaches us through an Israeli outlet and the Israeli army; the not-knowing through an American reporter quoting an unnamed …
Katz says Israel holds Ali al-Taher, tunnels and all. A Hezbollah-bloc MP says the ridge is still being bombed.
Israel's defence minister said on Friday the army had taken the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon and cleared the tunnels beneath it. Hezbollah said nothing for more …
Israel's military says it took the Ali Taher Ridge. The one Lebanese account we hold is two days older and names no ridge.
Haaretz reported on 4 September that the Israeli military took over the strategic Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon, where it says Iranian personnel were holed up with …
Troops killed two at al-Mughayyir. The IDF says it went in for livestock.
The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry says two Palestinians were shot dead on Wednesday night. The IDF says troops were escorting police to retrieve Israeli-owned animals when a violent …
Four dead at a wedding in Kuhestak. Three of four experts say the munition was American.
CENTCOM says the US military never targets civilians — a policy line, not an account of this strike. The wounded are counted twice, at more than 50 and …
Outlets that cover this
MSNBC
MSNBC
🇺🇸US ·
TV/radio · independent
What we have measured
Accuser not named The lede does not name the senator making the accusation ×1Actor named for the ban The White House is the subject of both verbs: it blocked journalists, then let CNN back in. ×1A first stated flat a never-before claim carried without a source attached ×1Asserted, not attributed absence of fraud evidence stated as fact ×1
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The Hill
The Hill
🇺🇸US ·
digital · independent
What we have measured
Accusation attributed the word lying is placed in a named politician's mouth, not the outlet's ×1Actor named No actor named for who kept reporters out ×1Actor named No actor named for who let reporters back in ×1Actor named Names the state as the one that carried out the execution. ×1
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The New York Times
The New York Times
🇺🇸US ·
newspaper · independent
What we have measured
Active and passive voice the ship is 'targeted' with no actor, one sentence before a named actor is given for the Saudi attack ×1Active vs passive voice Pike is named as the killer in the active voice; the botched execution has no actor named ×1Actor label Names the shooter by its backer, not by its own name. ×1Actor named Names the official and what the process did to Pike. ×1
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The Washington Post
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News (Australia)
🇦🇺AU ·
public broadcaster · public-service
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
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BBC News
BBC News
🇬🇧UK ·
public broadcaster · public-service
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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
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
🇬🇧UK ·
newspaper · independent
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The Times
The Times
🇬🇧UK ·
newspaper · independent
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Corriere della Sera
Corriere della Sera
🇮🇹IT ·
newspaper · independent
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Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza
🇵🇱PL ·
newspaper · independent
What we have measured
Actor named Russia is named as acting against the bridge, in active voice ×1Asserted cause Voters' reason for backing the AfD is stated flat as a fact about the mainstream parties. ×1Asserted, not attributed the three-year gain is stated as what the deal would have secured, with no source ×1Asserted versus attributed the link between the pardons and the US talks is stated flat in the headline ×1
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Politico Europe
Politico Europe
🇧🇪BE ·
digital · independent
What we have measured
Actor named vaguely The opponents are 'other capitals', with no country named ×1With no actor named accusation The coup accusation is in the passive; the accuser is not named ×1Asserted vs attributed The contradiction is stated as fact by the report, sourced only to unspecified official notes ×1Asserted vs attributed the stall stated flat in the headline, with Athens named as the actor that rejected ×1
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Gulf News
Gulf News
🇦🇪AE ·
newspaper · independent
What we have measured
Headline framing the incident is folded into a named war and led by the oil price; one tanker, not two ×1Headline framing incident placed inside a named 'US-Iran war' and led by the oil price ×1How hard the claim is stated The denial that it is a war is labelled a claim, while the fighting itself is downgraded to a conflict ×1How hard the claim is stated none — assertion carried as fact ×1
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LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
🇱🇧LB ·
TV/radio · independent
What we have measured
Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1
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Ma'an News Agency
Ma'an News Agency
🇵🇸PS ·
digital · independent
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North Press Agency
North Press Agency
🇸🇾SY ·
wire · independent
What we have measured
Attribution the damage list is carried in full, attributed to the side claiming it ×1Single official source Uses the Saudi Press Agency's account: 'bilateral relations', with no mention of reconstruction or money. ×1What is at stake presents the stakes as trade and energy security; no ship, crew or price is counted ×1Which line is led with led by the legal instrument, naming the Security Council resolution by number ×1
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Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
🇵🇸PS ·
TV/radio · state-controlled
What we have measured
Asserted versus attributed recognition itself stated as fact ×1Attribution 'historic' attributed to the Palestinian ambassador ×1Dead counted, not named two dead are counted as 'citizens' and none are named; the wounded are not counted ×1Dead named Gives the dead man's full name and age. ×1
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WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency
WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency
🇵🇸PS ·
state agency · state-controlled
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Ynet
Ynet
🇮🇱IL ·
digital · independent
What we have measured
A claim in the headline that the other reports very close to deciding the regime appears in one report only ×1Active voice The killers are the subject of the verbs 'beat' and 'burned'. ×1Active voice The killers are named as acting ×1Army's term, attributed the army names the target of its strikes, and no one on the other side is quoted ×1
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