190120GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Fighting fire with fire: How controlled blazes are used to avert a greater catastrophehttps://www.thenational.ae/uae/science/fighting-fire-with-fire-how-controlled-blazes-are-used-to-avert-a-greater-catastrophe-1.758853As wildfires wreak havoc in California and leave 90 dead in Greece, Robert Matthews looks at why 'putting out the fire with gasoline' is often the only option Firefighters battle the Ferguson Fire, the largest fire in the Sierra National Forest's history, in California on August 8. Courtesy US Forest Service.Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:49:00 +0200thenational-ea6d129d6cd00fb69fe023e74637d57d20180811134900Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to again refrain from eulogizing Koreans killed in 1923 Great Kanto Earthquakehttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=1465063&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+japantimes+%28The+Japan+Times%3A+All+Stories%29Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has said she will not send a memorial address for an annual ceremony to mourn Koreans who died in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake — including those murdered in the turmoil after the quake — for the second consecutive year. The memorial service is held on Sept. 1 every year at a metropolitan park in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward.Sat, 11 Aug 2018 02:53:00 +0200japantimes-166f875d62b8ff2bbbd9877de245610120180811025300AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in Asiahttps://missoulian.com/news/national/ap-photos-editor-selections-from-the-past-week-in-asia/article_77a26db2-3bfd-545f-9752-53488f34714b.htmlIn Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, file photo, Namio Matsura, a 17-year-old member of the computation skill research club at Fukuyama Technical High School, watches Hiroshima city before atomic bomb fell in virtual reality experience at the high school in Hiroshima, western Japan.Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:11:00 +0200missoulian-b2a1124511a0ab01af8c78024b1053f520180810091100AP Photos: Editor selections from the past week in Asiahttps://www.wacotrib.com/news/ap_nation/ap-photos-editor-selections-from-the-past-week-in-asia/article_1611429d-c158-5b8e-99ee-30c0193d5716.htmlIn Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, file photo, Namio Matsura, a 17-year-old member of the computation skill research club at Fukuyama Technical High School, watches Hiroshima city before atomic bomb fell in virtual reality experience at the high school in Hiroshima, western Japan.Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:43:00 +0200wacotrib-f61024279902af8da127ae441af5ddf020180810084300