210120 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.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2018/08/15/2003698540The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Lombok on Aug. 5 has killed more than 430 people, injured more than 1,400 and left about 270,000 people homeless. The day after the earthquake, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) posted on Twitter, in English and Indonesian, voicing her....Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:19:00 +0200taipeitimes-b64c9c9dd49ee740ca8b22034b689c9420180814191900http://www.india.com/news/world/earthquake-in-japan-5-1-magnitude-tremors-shake-chiba-prefecture-nearby-areas-3222097/Shanghai, Aug 14: An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Japan on Tuesday. The tremors were felt in Chiba Prefecture and nearby areas. There was no report of any injury or casualty. Earlier on Monday, a 5.0 magnitude quake had struck China leaving 18 people injured. More details awaited.Tue, 14 Aug 2018 06:23:00 +0200india-f51c4e54c1a346a984f3188dfe8a393020180814062300https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/first-class-surgery-all-tabarre-hospitalSince 2012, 60,000 Haitians from all walks of life have benefited from free, first-class surgical trauma care through MSF’s Nap Kenbé hospital in the Tabarre neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Opened in response to the earthquake in 2010 and the resultant spike in acute medical needs, MSF is gradually....Tue, 14 Aug 2018 01:09:00 +0200reliefWeb-1713248713db934d3e89895f5653755520180814010900https://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-ea6d129d6cd00fb69fe023e74637d57d20180811134900