357280 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.gizmodo.in/science/Fukushima-Reactor-Debris-Stands-No-Chance-Against-Toshibas-Slicing-Dicing-Robot/articleshow/50629995.cms?utm_source=GIZ&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=GIZMODOIt's already been almost five years since the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and the inspection and clean-up is going to last decades. Our best weapon? Amazing robots, like this one Toshiba It looks like a James Bond torture device, but this bad boy's here to clear junk from the decommissioned plant that'll never reopen.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:07:00 +0100gizmodo-in-bf0234754d7da991426042e113683eb620160119080700http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/19/national/japan-drafts-new-five-year-blueprint-tsunami-reconstruction/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29The government has reviewed the reconstruction work the Tohoku region will need over the next five years and has drafted a new basic policy for the period through fiscal 2020. The draft, submitted to a panel headed by University of Tokyo professor Motoshige Ito on Tuesday, says the next five years....Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:06:00 +0100japantimes-e940e123627a24cf1e948834d6a3fc6d20160119080600http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/international/366844/world-s-oldest-man-dies-at-112-in-japanSakari Momoi, recognised as the world's oldest male at the age of 111 in August 2014, has died of kidney failure in a care home in Tokyo (AFP Photo) Tokyo: The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112, an official said Tuesday.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 07:52:00 +0100thepeninsulaqatar-579341eab90d96997ad41bbddf21980320160119075200http://www.tiempo.hn/sismo-de-5-3-sacudio-las-islas-del-cisne-en-honduras/Tegucigalpa – Un sismo de magnitud 5,3 se produjo en el mar Caribe, la noche del domingo cerca de las Islas del Cisne de Honduras, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, en inglés). Según el USGS, el maremoto tuvo su epicentro 86 kilómetros al suroeste de la Isla del Cisne Grande, a una profundidad de 15.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 05:50:00 +0100tiempo-6901bf9bf45de95db7e1a6d9361fa0e220160119055000