The day in brief — October 22, 2026
The stories that led the day, ranked by how many independent outlets covered each one.
630 drones overnight — such is the arithmetic of the attack on Moscow and the regions, and it sets the tone for the rest of the day's headlines. While PHP vulnerabilities take down websites worldwide and a court prices Meta's mistakes at $25 billion, US diplomats leave Saudi Arabia, and the Pope gets by without additional treatment.
The day's stories
- Critical PHP flaws trigger global website outages
- France reports first human death from Shamonda virus
- US orders diplomats to leave Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks
- ICC wins EU Parliament's Sakharov Prize amid US sanctions
- Mass drone attack on Moscow and regions: 630 UAVs, casualties reported
- Pope Leo XIV needs no further treatment after lung cancer surgery, Vatican says
- Russia and Ukraine trade strikes after US envoy talks
- Russia and Ukraine exchange bodies of fallen soldiers: 252 for 25
- Trump says Ukraine conflict closer to end than ever
- Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in New Mexico privacy case
Other stories of the day
- Magnitude 7.0 quake in Tibet kills 16, collapses hundreds of homes
- Putin confirms readiness for trilateral talks on Ukraine
- Actor Tom Skerritt, Star of 'Alien' and 'Top Gun,' Dies at 93
- Trump says Starlink restored, Kyiv denies limits lifted
- Meghan Markle's father investigated over child abuse images
- Europe's summer 2026 heat killed over 50,000, study finds
- Judge orders Trump to testify under oath in BBC lawsuit by Dec. 11
- First Russian diesel tanker heads to US under Putin-Trump deal
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