4. How close South Korea came to losing the war

China's factory output disappoints, dashing hopes for speedy recovery - reuters.com/markets/asia/c…

Images of empty sun loungers on the Albanian riviera are prompting a round of finger-pointing, with the PM blaming ‘absurd’ prices – and others citing competition from neighboring countries and lack of a strategy. More in our analysis: balkaninsight.com/2024/08/14/aba…

Germany, Forsa poll: CDU/CSU-EPP: 30% AfD-ESN: 17% SPD-S&D: 15% GRÜNE-G/EFA: 11% BSW-NI: 7% FDP-RE: 5% LINKE-LEFT: 3% +/- vs. 30 July-5 August 2024 Fieldwork: 6-12 August 2024 Sample size: 2,502 ➤ europeelects.eu/germany #btw25 #Bundestag #Wahlen

A Thread of photos and videos featuring humans next to enormous things to illustrate their size 1. Old salt mine in Romania

Thread on some of the most surreal & beautiful train rides in the world🧵 1. A ride from Bangalore to Idagunji, Karnataka, India 🇮🇳

14. The Alaska Railroad offers year-round rail transportation across nearly 500 miles of remote and wild landscapes in Alaska.

Το φεγγάρι στα μνημεία, στις ταράτσες, στη θάλασσα και στο βουνό – Οκτώ στιγμιότυπα από την πανσέληνο του Αυγούστου kathimerini.gr/culture/563181…

In China, a glitch in the Matrix has been captured - there are 6 suns rising at once This is actually an optical illusion that occurs when light is refracted.

Why These 15 Young Voters Aren't Rushing to Kamala Harris Like Their Peers nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Before explaining the importance of status, let's quickly note that the common explanations of why fertility is collapsing cannot be the whole story. As the above countries and the Nordics show, giving people economic benefits to have children doesn't move the needle.

"To understand how much the chaebol system matters in Korea: you are not a person of equal status to other people if you don't work at one of the chaebols."

VIDEO: South Korea monitors malaria-carrying mosquitoes crossing from the North. Standing near the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea, a monitoring device works around the clock, not to track missiles or soldiers, but mosquitoes that could be carrying

Οι ανησυχίες των ειδικών και οι πρωτοβουλίες διεθνώς kathimerini.gr/society/563194…

A great oppertunity today giving a briefing at #Greece Foreign Ministry on #AI-based #disinformation. Thanks nikospan and International Peace Journalism Laboratory for the invitation and funding by DG Reform, EU Reform Support 🇪🇺 and EU and @DGcomm. Look forward to talking more #DigitalDiplomacy with Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών.

Σαν σήμερα, στην κόλαση της Σμύρνης, ο καπετάνιος Ιαπωνικού εμπορικού πλοίου δίνει εντολή στο πλήρωμά να πετάξει το φορτίο στη θάλασσα και ανεβάζει στο πλοίο εκατοντάδες Έλληνες που προσπαθούν να σωθούν απεγνωσμένα. Τελικά σώζει πάνω από 800 εξαθλιωμένους πρόσφυγες, την ώρα⤵️

11. Volcanic lightning

Antiestablishment opposition parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Saturday's presidential election in Sri Lanka, shocking a political elite that has dominated power in the South Asian nation for nearly eight decades. asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Sri-L…