Core: Various fixes

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What I did

Added some missing ARIA labels and prevented accessing a property of undefined.

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Greptile Summary

Accessibility and defensive programming improvements in core UI components, focusing on ARIA labels and null handling.

• Added aria-label to Modal close button in code/core/src/components/components/Modal/Modal.styled.tsx for better screen reader support
• Added aria-label to 'Create new story' button in code/core/src/manager/components/sidebar/Sidebar.tsx improving sidebar accessibility
• Fixed potential undefined error in getDescendantIds function by adding null coalescing for entry.children in code/core/src/manager/utils/tree.ts

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