19180 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.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-09/01/c_138356026.htmTOKYO, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Japanese authorities held a drill to prepare for a mega earthquake striking the Tokyo metropolitan area for the National Disaster Prevention Day on Sunday, based on the assumption that a 7.3-magnitude quake hit the capital. Sept.Sun, 01 Sep 2019 15:57:00 +0200xinhuanet_en-e8134525991a0d33d4ccecc1c061b3c720190901155700https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/01/national/japan-conducts-emergency-drills-preparation-huge-quake-predicted-hit-tokyo-area/The government conducted full-scale drills on Sunday — the official Disaster Prevention Day — in preparation for a powerful earthquake that is predicted to occur directly under the Tokyo metropolitan area. The drills were carried out under a scenario of a 7.3 magnitude temblor occurring under the capitals’s 23 wards at 7 a.Sun, 01 Sep 2019 10:49:00 +0200japantimes-b653c65f25dcdcf02a454b31e08896af20190901104900http://www.thestkittsnevisobserver.com/regional-intl-news/haiti-in-move-for-visa-free-travel-to-russia/Haiti’s Foreign Minister Edmond Bocchit has announced that a memorandum of understanding is in the works with Russia that would allow Haitians to visit the Kremlin and Russian citizens to visit Haiti visa-free. The upcoming signing of the visa waiver agreement comes on the back of a recent meeting....Sat, 31 Aug 2019 13:19:00 +0200sunstkitts-e62f8470913bf93a889b8c4a1e07617f20190831131900https://reliefweb.int/report/vanuatu/vanuatu-ambrym-volcano-earthquake-emergency-plan-action-final-report-mdrvu007A. SITUATION ANALYSIS. Description of the disaster. The Malampa province in the archipelago of Vanuatu has a volcanic island Ambrym consists of a population of approximately 7,286 people according to the census of 2016. The volcanic major unrest continued since January 2018 which caused the raise of....Sat, 31 Aug 2019 12:46:00 +0200reliefWeb-2335dbc10db1a11eca47b053daf621ec20190831124600