68280 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 https://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/emperor-turns-83-thanks-public-for-response-to-abdication-wishTOKYO. Addressing the country on his 83rd birthday Friday, Emperor Akihito thanked the Japanese public for heeding his message earlier in the year indicating his desire to abdicate. His annual birthday remarks followed his rare video message in which he said his advanced age could one day prevent....Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:12:00 +0100japantoday-20181d9cbb5d0345677a1931047423f620161222231200http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-4059464/Brothers-building-fashion-empire-orphans-Boxing-Day-tsunami.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490Two brothers who started selling flip-flops to help others after their parents were killed in the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 have seen their business boom. Rob and Paul Forkan were on a family trip in Sri Lanka when their parents, Kevin, 54, and Sandra, 40, died having saved their younger siblings....Thu, 22 Dec 2016 23:04:00 +0100dailymail-347d6164364ec43e8b2aab362229c1f420161222230400http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/23/national/emperor-turns-83-gives-thanks-response-video-message/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29Addressing the country on his 83rd birthday Friday, Emperor Akihito thanked the public for heeding his message earlier in the year indicating his desire to abdicate. His annual birthday remarks followed a rare video message in which he said his advanced age could one day prevent him from fulfilling his duties as the symbol of the state.Thu, 22 Dec 2016 22:01:00 +0100japantimes-39154208fd6892c704c6ddc2f8689fef20161222220100http://reliefweb.int/report/solomon-islands/unicef-solomon-islands-earthquake-pacific-humanitarian-situation-report-2-15Highlights. • A 7.8-magnitude earthquake that occurred on 9 December near Solomon Islands claimed the life of one person and injured another, damaged or destroyed 439 homes and damaged 21 schools and four health clinics, according to initial damage assessments.Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:49:00 +0100reliefWeb-ca8dc3845f935e449f9063380d38990120161222214900