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Here's how Russia avoids a recession, but it has already begun according to experts.

A former Japanese baseball star Ichiro inducted into Mariners Hall of Fame. When did this happen? This happened last Saturday, August 27, 2022. Ichiro Suzuki, a former Seattle Mariners great, was applauded wildly at T-Mobile Park as he delivered a 17-minute statement in English on Saturday, becoming the 10th player to be inducted into the team's Hall of Fame.

More than six months after the invasion began, Ukraine is using high-tech weapons from the West to hit Russian ammunition depots and mess up supply lines. Ukraine claims that a new southern offensive is breaching Russian defenses. MYKOLAIV, Ukraine – Ukraine said it broke through enemy lines in several places near the southern city of Kherson as part of a new campaign to retake territory.

Authorities said on Sunday that a monster monsoon submerged nearly half of Pakistan and more than a thousand people had lost their lives. According to Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, the death toll has reached 1,033, with 348 children accounting for a significant portion of that number. The weekend alone was responsible for the loss of nearly 100 lives. The flooding has also resulted in 1,527 people being injured across Pakistan as a result of flood-related accidents.

In preparation for the India skyscraper demolition of two 40-story towers in a residential neighborhood outside of New Delhi, Indian authorities began removing thousands of residents from their houses on Saturday, according to officials and local media. According to local authorities, the implosion of the twin, 103-meter-tall residential buildings, which will take between 12 and 15 seconds, will make them the largest buildings ever destroyed in the nation. Last year, the Supreme Court of India declared that the two skyscrapers had to be demolished because they had broken several important construction regulations.

The world's most followed TikTok star Khaby Lame becomes an Italian citizen. When did this happen? This happened last week. The TikTokker with the most followers worldwide, Khaby Lame, has acquired Italian citizenship.

After weeks of searching, the Kiely Rodni investigation reached a climax after the body of this teenager from Truckee, California, was discovered. Or was it just the beginning of another long probe as new questions popped up? How will the autopsy report affect the case? What really happened to Rodni still remains unclear.

For today’s superhero Uber driver stories, a driver midway to an airport stopped the car to rescue people from a burning building. On the early morning of August 17, Fritz Sam was headed to Queens, New York City.

One of the quickest ways to amass vast wealth is to seize control of a region of Asia's largest island, Borneo. Every night, the Sultan of Brunei retires to the world's largest private residence.

Filipino cops nabbed Germany's radical conspiracy theorist named Oliver Janich last Wednesday morning. He was arrested early on Wednesday, and according to the German Press Agency, he will be sent to Germany. An "arrest" was also mentioned on Janich's Telegram channel, one of the most widely used channels for spreading conspiracy theories in Germany.

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the rate of syphilis spread in Japan. According to experts, the number of people infected with the disease is expected to be higher than 10,000 in a single year.

The body of a dead Indian soldier found after 38 years on world's highest battlefield along the contentious border with Pakistan. Two days after India celebrated its 75th anniversary of independence, an Indian Army unit tweeted images of Chander Shekhar's coffin draped in the national flag. An army patrol reportedly discovered the bones on Monday in a decommissioned bunker in the Siachen Glacier.

The videos spreading on social media reveal the moment as Ikea in Shanghai goes into lockdown, shoppers rush in panic. Panic ensued at an Ikea store in Shanghai, China, after officials forced it to close down due to a COVID-19 concern. Zhao Dandan, the deputy director of the Shanghai Health Commission, told reporters on Sunday that the "store and affected area" would be under "closed loop" control for the next two days. He said this at a press briefing.

United States president Biden intends to close Guantanamo Bay prison. The White House made the announcement on Friday that President Biden intends to close the facility that is located at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. This is a difficult undertaking that the Obama administration was unable to accomplish about a decade ago.

Because of the extreme heat, China's zero-COVID policy has become much harder and more dangerous for front-line health care workers.

Israel attacked Gaza to protect its people from the threats of the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The U.S. categorized PIJ as a terrorist group. This recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict killed lives and destroyed homes, with the helpless civilians always getting caught in the middle of the chaos.

President Biden departs for two-week COVID isolation. After being let out of COVID isolation on Sunday morning, President Joe Biden left the White House and went to Rehoboth beach. He has tested negative for two days in a row, and his doctor has given him the green light to go to public events and travel with the president.

In the year 1878, two European colonists negotiated a pact with the sultan of Sulu for the use of his territory in what is now Malaysia. This agreement was honored by independent Malaysia until 2013, during which time the country paid the monarch's successors around $1,000 per year.

According to John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council of the United States, the US is watching Chinese operations on Taiwan ‘very closely’ in the vicinity of Japan.

As Russia turns away from Europe, President Vladimir Putin will have to cope with bargain hunters in the east for the country's oil exports.

For the first time since the COVID-19 epidemic closed them in March 2020, New Zealand's borders completely reopened to tourists from across the globe on Monday.

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan and Japan's longest-serving leader, passed away on Friday, just hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election. His death came as a shock to a nation where political violence is uncommon and guns are subject to strict regulations.

According to a recent UN Development Program estimate, the global inflation rises caused by the Ukraine crisis might force more than 71 million people into poverty.

Global inflation declines, primarily as a result of resuming commercial activity in mainland China following the relaxation of Omicron wave-related lockdowns. Other emerging markets reported solid or reviving growth, but developed world output growth slowed to the second-weakest since January 2021, led by the US and Eurozone.