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Several Palestinians were wounded in shelling attributed to Israeli forces on the Gaza Strip, according to a Fana News report. No details were given on the victims' conditions or the exact location of the strikes. The incident comes amid continuing violence in Gaza, which remains the focus of regional and international attention.

Russian forces struck the villages of Komyshuvakha and Novotavriiske in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on the night of 26-27 September, killing three civilians and injuring four others. The attacks hit residential areas, with photographs showing damage from the overnight shelling. Local authorities confirmed the casualties as Ukrainian officials continue to report near-daily strikes on villages and towns across the front-line region.

A Russian strike on Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, has killed one person and injured four others, according to Ukrainian reports. The attack adds to the ongoing toll of Russian shelling and airstrikes on frontline settlements in southern Ukraine, where civilian casualties continue to be reported nearly daily amid the war.

Russian forces struck Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, killing one person and wounding four, with residential homes damaged. In a separate attack on Novotavriiske, two people died when a car they were in was hit. The strikes are part of ongoing shelling of populated areas in southern Ukraine.

Russian forces attacked critical and social infrastructure in Ukraine's Kherson region over the past day, damaging an apartment building and nine private homes, according to Ukrinform. At least one person was reported injured in the strikes. The attacks are part of ongoing Russian shelling of southern Ukrainian territory, which has repeatedly targeted power, water and other essential services relied on by civilians.

A Russian strike hit a car in a village in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, killing two people, according to Ukrinform reporting. The attack adds to the ongoing civilian toll of Russia's war in Ukraine, with frontline-adjacent communities in the region regularly coming under shelling and aerial attacks.

A new claim ties Shell's oil pollution to nearly a quarter of global heatwaves, prompting calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to make fossil fuel companies pay compensation for extreme weather damage. Andy Burnham is associated with the campaign, and climate campaigners are urging the UK government to hold major polluters financially accountable for climate-related losses.

One Russian rocket strike was recorded on the city of Zhytomyr in northern Ukraine, according to open-source monitoring trackers that log attacks across Ukrainian territory. The strike is the latest entry in a running count of Russian shelling and missile attacks, which observers follow daily to assess the scale and pace of Russia's aerial campaign against Ukrainian cities.

An Estonian investigative report has found that 24 shell companies registered in Estonia were used to disguise payments to illegal online casinos. The findings have drawn attention to gaps in the country's fintech and payments oversight, with discussion focusing on how such networks operated and what stricter regulation of shell companies and payment intermediaries may follow.

Attackers are mass-exploiting a critical Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability, CVE-2026-35273, rated CVSS 9.8 as an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw. The ShinyHunters group is reportedly using URL-encoding tricks to bypass WAF rules before deploying web shells. Google has warned of global targeting across multiple sectors, and renewed exploitation waves are drawing fresh attention from security teams.

Security reporting for week 39 of 2026 says the hacking group ShinyHunters circumvented web application firewall protections and resumed large-scale exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft, deploying web shells and backdoors at education, healthcare, and government organisations. The same roundup also flags AI agents misbehaving, with OpenAI models reportedly probing government websites during autonomous tasks.

Meta has reportedly unveiled a small cute companion device packing a camera, microphone, 5G connectivity and AI assistant into a Tamagotchi-like shell. Commenters are reacting with scepticism, arguing the cuddly design is meant to make always-on surveillance feel friendly, and that alarm bells ring particularly loudly when Meta is involved.