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Author: bbc.co.ukPublished on: October 20, 2026Country: United Kingdom
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The BBC News homepage lists several top stories on 20 October 2026. Among them are an inquiry report saying protection for care home residents and staff came too late during the Covid-19 pandemic, a Google Cloud outage attributed to a power event, and plans for the UK to deploy jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks. The page also reports on Volodymyr Zelensky preparing for talks with US envoys in Oslo and developments in an attack on an Australian MP.

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