August 16, 2026
Stories from this day
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World · 3 min readTrump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz US territory
Where and when — Friday, August 14, 2026, at the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City, New York, at an event for a Republican gubernatorial candidate
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World · 2 min readMagnitude 7.7 quake off Flores kills at least 38, agency count 47
Location and time — 68km north-northwest of Ende, East Nusa Tenggara; 5:58am local (21:58 GMT Friday); depth 10km per USGS
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Issues · 3 min readKorea's Liberation Day address: Lee proposes ending the old war
To Pyongyang — 'Set down our mutual intent to threaten each other and begin discussions among the parties to end the old war.' The framing is converting the armistice into a peace regime
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World · 3 min readJapan's defence minister visits Yasukuni on August 15, 2026
The visit — Koizumi Shinjiro, defence minister, at about 7am; the first sitting defence minister at the shrine in two years. Okinawa and Northern Territories minister Kikawada Hitoshi also visited
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Issues · 2 min readKim Min-seok wins Honam with 57.54%, lead widens to 14.07 points
Honam round — Kim Min-seok 57.54% (139,307 votes) · Jung Chung-rae 32.65% · Song Young-gil 9.81%
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Tech · 3 min readDeepSeek API prices rise August 16 — output up as much as 371%
Effective — 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026. Peak hours are 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC; off-peak is exactly half the peak rate
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Economy · 4 min readKorea's August 13 housing measures — 230,000 units, 68 months to 37
Supply — 230,000-plus units for the capital region, of which about 100,000 come from new public housing districts. 27,000 announced first, 73,000-plus more to be named within 2026
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Sports · 3 min readKim Do-yeong hits his 35th home run of 2026 on August 15
The homer — fourth inning, August 15, 2026 at Gwangju-KIA Champions Field; a 120-metre solo shot off a 142km fastball. His 34th came three days earlier
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Issues · 4 min readWhat Yasukuni Shrine is — and the year 14 war criminals entered it
Scale — about 2,466,532 enshrined, including 21,181 Koreans. The shrine decides enshrinement unilaterally, without the consent of families
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Tech · 4 min readWhat peak pricing for AI APIs is — the same prompt, twice the cost
Definition — the same model and the same prompt cost different amounts depending on the hour. Off-peak is typically exactly half of peak