This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Wednesday,

October the 30th, these are our main stories.

According to the Hamas-run health ministry, almost a hundred people

are dead or missing in Gaza following an Israeli air strike. The US warns of consequences

if Israel goes through with a ban on Anwa, the UN Aid Agency.

The US presidential election enters its final week.

Ikea agrees to compensate victims in former communist East Germany who were forced to make products

for the Swedish company.

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They were preserved by a mineral called iron pyroite, otherwise known as Fools Gold.

And so they have this sort of beautiful golden appearance,

and they are completely three-dimensionally preserved, so they look like they could have died yesterday.

A 450 million-year-old fossil of one of the earliest ancestors of spiders.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has said that almost 100 people have been

killed or are missing following an Israeli airstrike in the northern town of Beethlahia.

The Israeli military said that it was looking into the incident.

At the same time Israel is facing calls not to go ahead with a ban on the UN's Palestinian Refugee Agency, UNRWA.

Humanitarian organizations have warned that such a... the not give in to international pressure. Israel is not allowing international journalists

for media organizations, including the BBC independent access to Gaza.

On Tuesday, our special correspondent Fergal Keen sent us this report from Jerusalem.

In Northern Gaza a boy and his friend are caught up in the aftermath of an air strike.

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