For today, links to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM

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Strikes on Gaza’s southern edge sow fear in one of the last areas to which people can flee, by Najib Jobain and Kareem Chehayeb | AP  RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces struck the southern Gaza town of Rafah twice overnight, residents said today, sowing fear in one of the last places where civilians could seek refuge after Israel widened its offensive against Hamas to areas already packed with displaced people. United Nations officials say there are . . . READ MORE . . .

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Israeli tank fire killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon, by Maya Gebeily, Anthony Deutsch and David Clarke | Reuters  An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six reporters in Lebanon on Oct. 13 by firing two shells in quick succession from Israel while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling, a Reuters investigation has found. The two strikes killed Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, and severely wounded Agence France-Presse photographer Christina Assi, 28, just over a kilometre from . . . READ MORE . . .