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- In Burkina Faso, a coup d'état led by Ibrahim Traore deposes interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (pictured).
- Russia annexes the partially occupied Ukrainian oblasts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson after widely condemned referendums.
- Hurricane Ian impacts Cuba and the United States, leaving at least 70 people dead and millions of others without power.
- NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft deliberately collides with the asteroid Dimorphos in a demonstration of asteroid deflection.
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