139210 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.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/20/california-wildfires-what-fire-tornado-fire-whirl-fire-cloud/5614981002/Fire tornadoes may seem appropriately apocalyptic, given a year full of terrifying events. The fire tornado, or “extreme fire activity,” brought on by the Loyalton Fire in Northern California, blazed through nearly 50,000 acres of land. After a difficult battle, the blaze is now The Loyalton Fire....Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:09:00 +0200azcentral-fec4a862b1b337c7f9ed5c5b8d1ef84b20200824170900https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/20/california-wildfires-what-fire-tornado-fire-whirl-fire-cloud/5614981002/Fire tornadoes may seem appropriately apocalyptic, given a year full of terrifying events. The fire tornado, or “extreme fire activity,” brought on by the Loyalton Fire in Northern California, blazed through nearly 50,000 acres of land. After a difficult battle, the blaze is now The Loyalton Fire....Mon, 24 Aug 2020 16:41:00 +0200usaToday-fec4a862b1b337c7f9ed5c5b8d1ef84b20200824164100https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/school-earthquake-onagawa-qatar/Sendai – A new school has opened in the northeastern town of Onagawa, where hundreds of lives were lost in the 2011 quake and tsunami, with help from a government of Qatar relief fund. A ¥1 billion ($9.4 million) contribution from the state helped cover some of the ¥5.Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:50:00 +0200japantimes-2aff61c2496fd711002397ee62cacb8720200824095000https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/08/19c4f3da8b15-school-opens-in-quake-hit-northern-japan-town-with-help-of-qatari-fund.htmlA new school has opened in the northeastern Japan town of Onagawa, where hundreds of lives were lost in the 2011 quake and tsunami, with help from a government of Qatar relief fund. A one billion yen ($9.4 million) contribution from the Gulf state helped cover some of the 5.Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:09:00 +0200kyodonews-711ef3ede997d6bdbd822946feeb64ec20200824080900