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Author: bbc.co.ukPublished on: October 20, 2026Country: United Kingdom

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The BBC News homepage features several current stories, including a Covid inquiry into failures affecting care homes. Bereaved families call the report a “devastating account” and describe the government’s promise to protect care homes as a “cruel lie.” Other headlines cover a Google Cloud outage, British jets being deployed to defend Saudi Arabia, and political developments in the UK, Australia and Ukraine.

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