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World News in Brief: Russian attacks intensify, UN team tours West Bank, ‘unlawful’ elderly deaths

UN News · Official source · Oct 22, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

Long-range Russian attacks across Ukraine are intensifying, including in Kyiv, causing at least 14 civilian deaths and 78 injuries overnight into Thursday, as UN agencies continue to provide aid.

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Business · NPR

Israel orders closure of West Bank after soldiers kill 2 men behind an alleged attack

Israeli soldiers shot and killed two men who the military said had launched an attack near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning.…Read original ↗

Business · Sky News

Israel orders army to prepare to fully close West Bank after 'thwarting terror attack'

The Israeli government has ordered its army to prepare for a full closure of the West Bank following a shooting near Hebron.Read original ↗

World · BBC News

Five Israelis wounded and two suspected Palestinian attackers killed in West Bank shooting

The attack comes at a time of heightened tensions in the West Bank and four days before Israel's general election.Read original ↗

Business · TechCrunch

Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.Read original ↗

World · Nikkei Asia

Japan's regional banks in merger talks to form largest in nation's west

TOKYO/OSAKA -- Two Japanese regional lenders, Shiga Bank and Senshu Ikeda Holdings, the parent company of Osaka-based Senshu Ikeda Bank, are in the fi Read original ↗

Science · NPR

Europe's heat claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deaths

Blistering record heat in Europe this summer helped kill more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study…Read original ↗