13860 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.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/hbo-real-sports-adds-tasteful-retrospective-on-the-life-and-career-of-kobe-bryant-to-season-26-premiere/The news of Kobe Bryant’s untimely death, and that of his eldest daughter Gianna and seven others aboard a Sikorsky helicopter in Calabasas on Sunday has been a sobering shock to so many who loved and admired the basketball star. And despite some controversial news about an MSNBC reporter flubbing....Mon, 27 Jan 2020 22:57:00 +0100monstersandcritics-31353cf281dc901272eb3ed26663a95720200127225700https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2020/01/27/basketball/nba/japanese-athletes-officials-mourn-death-kobe-bryant/Japanese sports stars paid tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant on Monday after he was killed along with his teenage daughter in a helicopter crash. The 41-year-old, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers throughout a glittering career spanning two decades, died after the private aircraft came down in California on Sunday morning, according to U.Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:17:00 +0100japantimes-81dcf3a1e3ed8111879ec4a2dd3a316320200127111700https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2020/01/27/lifestyle/warp-weft-sustainable-weaving/A 50-square-meter patch of field and 100 cotton trees. That’s all that Jin Shirai needs to make his living. Shirai is a weaver, though the term only represents part of what he actually does. As a craftsperson who creates from scratch, his work starts in spring when he plants wamen (Japanese cotton) seeds.Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:20:00 +0100japantimes-57f2f15dc44241e9c87344400022bf1820200127042000https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/01/why-does-us-spend-so-much-defense/162657/It is common in nearly every election cycle for at least one candidate to claim that the United States spends too much on defense. Elizabeth Warren said it last year in a , Bernie Sanders in a , and we are likely to hear it again as the general election approaches.Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:34:00 +0100defenseone-edf8a47ac6c6d6e1b4e745fbef9747ab20200126143400