Template:In the news
![Collapsed Sanibel Causeway in Florida](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Sanibel-causeway-destruction.webp/187px-Sanibel-causeway-destruction.webp.png)
- Russia annexes the partially occupied Ukrainian oblasts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson after widely condemned referendums.
- Hurricane Ian causes at least 23 deaths and leaves millions without power in Cuba and the United States (example damage pictured).
- NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft deliberately collides with the asteroid Dimorphos in a demonstration of asteroid deflection.
- Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge sets a new world record at the Berlin Marathon.
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