Center-left Socialist candidate António José recorded a thumping victory over hard-right populist André in ’s runoff presidential election Sunday, according to official results with 99% of votes counted.

Seguro won a five-year term in Lisbon’s riverside “pink palace” with 66.7% of votes, compared with 33.3% for Ventura.

apnews.com/article/portugal-pr

Demokratieaktivist Jimmy Lai zu 20 Jahren Haft verurteilt

Der Hongkonger Medienunternehmer und Demokratieaktivist Jimmy Lai muss für 20 Jahre ins Gefängnis. Ein Gericht hatte den 78-Jährigen wegen "Kollaboration mit ausländischen Kräften" und des "Aufruhrs" schuldig gesprochen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/ji

#JimmyLai #HongKong #Demokratiebewegung

TIL Jessica Biel once had to shoot an arrow right at the camera for an action shot on Blade: Trilogy. To protect the camera and crew, they put up a thick piece of Plexiglass with a hole cut through for the lens to see out... and Biel nailed the lens, destroying the $300,000 camera.

petapixel.com/2025/05/15/jessi
#til #todayilearned
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The first time in years I watched the original Star Wars film. 7/12 of my Star Wars run.

You can definitely see the age (nearly 50 years old!), but I genuinely prefer the original films over the new ones. I specifically liked how the rebellion is depicted: a wild bunch of people resisting the Empire. Nothing fancy about it.

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A very good deconstruction of the #NATO expansion fable, with lots of details and actual document sources. Much recommended.

https://waronomics.substack.com/p/the-nato-expansion-myth

Chilean State Railways has signed a $US 700m long-term financing agreement with the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and Spain's government lending agency Instituto de Crédito Oficial to support the modernisation and expansion of the national rail network.

railjournal.com/financial/chil

I was able to take a photo of a SBB RABDe 500 passing right next to me while I was hiking today. Turned out pretty OK I think 😊

A Russian drone strike on a passenger train in northeastern Ukraine killed five people, prosecutors said, an attack denounced as terrorism by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

reuters.com/world/russian-dron

#Ukraine #Russia

Two tenders have been launched to progress the Rail Baltica project to construct a new 250km/h standard-gauge line to connect the three Baltic states with Poland.

Bids are invited for the design of the 54km Lithuanian section and a new depot in Estonia.

railjournal.com/financial/rail

Started the weekend with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. 6/12 movies watched - halfway through.

I think this is my favourite movie of all new Star Wars films. That the story is building up to the original trilogy certainly helps, and seeing familiar spaceships was a blast.

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The Surface Transportation Board [...] announced [last Friday] it reached a unanimous decision finding that the merger application submitted by Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway is incomplete because it doesn’t contain certain information required by the board’s regulations.

progressiverailroading.com/fed

Solo: A Star Wars Story is definitely a very entertaining film. Maybe not too much depth, but perfect to start the weekend with.

5/12 Star Wars films (re)watched.

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Nächste Ehrung: Cristiano Ronaldo überreicht Trump Titel "Weltfußballer des Jahres 2017" der-postillon.com/2026/01/trum

Today in 2001, 25 years ago: Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, is launched (Wikipedia Day).

#OnThisDay

⚡️ A bill to annex Greenland and grant it statehood has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives

The document authorizes the president to annex or buy Greenland from Denmark to control the Arctic.

Once approved by both houses and signed by the president (if that happens), the bill will become law.

The government of is relaunching efforts to reactivate its national network. The plans support the development of the Bi-oceanic Central Corridor connecting ’s Atlantic ports with Pacific ports in and .

railjournal.com/regions/centra

Dänemark benennt Grönland in Epstein Island um, damit Trump nie wieder darüber spricht der-postillon.com/2026/01/groe

Today in 1547, 479 years ago: The first Lithuanian-language book, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, is published in Königsberg.

#OnThisDay

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