276620 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://japantoday.com/category/national/yamazaki-bakery-once-again-donates-bread-to-evacuation-centers-at-almost-inhuman-speedsOn what was meant to be a holiday week in Japan, torrential rains fell over much of the country causing widespread flooding and landslides. The death toll has risen to eight and 18 municipalities have been declared disaster areas so far with more rain still to come.2021-08-21T00:17+0200japantoday-e739c3acbd2a14ed90170c0e64ef63b320210821001700https://www.newsweek.com/listen-employees-understand-expectations-reduce-polarization-1620749When employers first sent employees home en masse in March 2020, many felt the exodus would last for just a few weeks. Over a year later, some are attempting to return to normal and call employees back into the office. They're finding this a challenging process, fraught with controversy and polarization.2021-08-20T23:37+0200newsweek-USA-71768515598c4f69b0541ccfc440f6b620210820233700https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/08/21/Earthquake-strikes-in-Mediterranean-Sea-off-Lebanon-s-coastReports from the European-Mediterranean Seismological center (EMSC) have shown that a 3.3 magnitude earthquake has occurred 69 kilometers southwest of Beirut in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday evening. No damages have been reported in Lebanon. According to a research by the American University in....2021-08-20T23:16+0200alarabiya-en-88c957143debac844d9753f425027fa620210820231600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6374257/mag4quake-Aug-20-2021-Japan-NE-OFF-HOKKAIDO.htmlAn earthquake of magnitude 4.5 occurred only 11 minutes ago 78 km northeast of Abashiri, Japan, Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) reported. The quake hit at a very shallow depth of 6.2 km beneath the epicenter near Abashiri, Abashiri Shi, Hokkaido,....2021-08-20T21:22+0200volcanodiscovery-e7e5b0b1ca8bc97cdf88db301b668a6920210820212200