694720 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.todayonline.com/world/asia/south-east-asian-fires-2015-emitted-most-carbon-1997-scientistsJAKARTA — Forest fires that blanketed South-east Asia in thick haze last year released the greatest amount of climate-changing carbon since record blazes in 1997, producing emissions higher than in the whole of the European Union, scientists said on Tuesday (June 29).Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:18:00 +0200todayonline-7359ba745a3734e124c0040847def55e20160629101800http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-forest-fires-in-2015-released-most-carbon-since-1997-scientistsJAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forest fires that blanketed South-east Asia in thick haze last year released the greatest amount of climate-changing carbon since record blazes in 1997, producing emissions higher than in the whole of the European Union, scientists said.Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:28:00 +0200straitstimesSG-5e63b788a6333b4371482a758ff5615620160629092800http://www.straitstimes.com/files/38690891238691672-13062016-tip13junejpgA forest fire is seen burning from a helicopter belonging to the Indonesian National Board of Disaster Management (BNPB) in Pelalawan, Riau province, Sumatra island, Indonesia on June 10, 2016. We have been experiencing some problems with subscriber log-ins and apologise for the inconvenience caused.Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:28:00 +0200straitstimesSG-85d813e737b7079ba74e9b2e531b7b3920160629092800http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/29/blind-mystic-who-predicted-911-the-boxing-day-tsunami-and-isis-also-foresaw-brexit-5973075/A blind Bulgarian mystic who devotees claim foresaw 9/11, the Boxing Day tsunami and Isis also predicted another apocalypse – Brexit. Baba Vanga, who died in 1996 aged 85, predicted that Europe would ‘cease to exist’ by the end of 2016. She is known as ‘the Nostradamus of the Balkans’ due to a supposed 85% success rate.Wed, 29 Jun 2016 08:33:00 +0200metro-uk-22d7dbdd7fbe948a9c27dedc614f870c20160629083300