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Israel maintains bombardment of Lebanon

The Israeli military says it had targeted a nearby Hezbollah position and the hospital itself had not been hit.

Israel has stepped up its attack on the finances of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Israel says several underground vaults with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold have been identified, including one under a Beirut hospital. Four people -- including a child -- were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday night. We'll go live to Beirut.

The United Nations aid agency operating in Gaza says the Israeli authorities are still preventing medicine and food from reaching people in the north of the territory. We'll talk to somebody in Gaza.

In Cuba, several provinces remain without power four days after the start of a nationwide blackout. The island has been battered by Hurricane Oscar.

And two dozen world leaders are gathering in Russia for a summit of the BRICS group, an alliance of emerging economies that the Kremlin hopes will challenge the West. (Pic: Beirut, Lebanon; Credit: Reuters)

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  • Tue 22 Oct 202404:06GMT