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Monday, 19 October 2026

Ukraine sets Russian oil sites on fire, and China's growth leans on selling abroad

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  • Cyber

    NHS staff in England can open the files of patients they are not treating. Yorkshire Ambulance Service found two staff who may have opened a tiger-attack victim's records only by reading its logs of who opened what, after the looks had happened.

  • Money

    In Birmingham, a landlord can collect extra housing benefit while offering only 'more than minimal' care, and a 2023 law to license these landlords is still in consultation. One provider was paid 443 pounds a week for a woman who says she got almost no help.

  • Food

    US rules make baby formula makers test for two germs, and botulism is not one of them, though 52 babies went to hospital in two outbreaks. Canada's food inspectors do not check whether a fish-feed preservative called ethoxyquin ends up in the fish people eat.

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  • Tech

    Microsoft has walked away from Nscale's planned AI data centre in Essex, because Britain's grid cannot power it until the 2030s. Nscale, a British builder of AI data centres, wants to sell shares at about $30 billion, and some investors now say $16 billion to $19 billion.

  • Finance

    Jio Platforms, the phone and internet arm of India's Reliance, opens what would be India's biggest share sale on Wednesday. Foreign investors have already taken more than $33 billion out of Indian shares this year.

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  • Mind & body

    England has too few senior obstetricians to staff every small maternity unit through the night. North Devon's unit has shut, and its mothers now travel to Exeter to give birth.

  • Food

    Britain has about 200 abattoirs left, against about 2,500 in the 1970s, and food and farming groups are asking for help to keep the rest. In Pakistan, around 500 cotton gins and more than 150 textile mills have closed.

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  • Finance

    A barrel of oil fell 1.6% to about $108 on Monday, after President Trump paused new US sanctions on Russia. In Britain, 38% of the latest company profit warnings blamed the war in the Middle East.

  • Food

    Kenya raised the price of diesel by 4.5% and petrol by 6% on 15 October, blaming the cost of importing fuel during the war. In Juba, South Sudan's capital, diesel more than doubled between February and September.

  • Climate

    Diesel costs more than 2.80 Australian dollars a litre at many stations in Australia. The US government has offered 17 million more barrels from its emergency oil store.

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