18520GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Australia weather: Heatwave to hit Melbourne, Sydney as Victoria battles bushfireshttps://whatsnew2day.com/australia-weather-heatwave-to-hit-melbourne-sydney-as-victoria-battles-bushfires/Parts of Australia are expected to be in sweltering heat this week as a heatwave moves through the southeast, with one state already battling serious bushfires. Melbourne could reach temperatures as high as 37C on Wednesday, while Adelaide could see a day as hot as 33C, and Sydney could see highs of 36C on Thursday.2024-02-27T22:16+0100whatsnew2day-a3fdac5d5e68a59334bf336eac7f658a2024022722160026.02.2024 Australia - Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln has 'moderate impact' on Gascoyne, but some fruit growers face severe damage Authorities are celebrating a "best case scenario" as ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln crossed the West Australian coast with a "moderate impact", but some fruit growers are dealing with severe damage.https://agroinsurance.com/en/News/Australia---Ex-Tropical-Authorities are celebrating a "best case scenario" as ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln crossed the West Australian coast with a "moderate impact", but some fruit growers are dealing with severe damage. The system hit the Gascoyne town of Carnarvon north of Perth on Saturday night, bringing 78 millimetres....2024-02-27T00:05+0100agroinsurance-en-f00a04e18d800d1e1371fe9f31024a452024022700050026.02.2024 Australia - Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln has 'moderate impact' on Gascoyne, but some fruit growers face severe damage Authorities are celebrating a "best case scenario" as ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln crossed the West Australian coast with a "moderate impact", but some fruit growers are dealing with severe damage.https://agroinsurance.com/en/News/Australia---Ex-Tropical-Authorities are celebrating a "best case scenario" as ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln crossed the West Australian coast with a "moderate impact", but some fruit growers are dealing with severe damage. The system hit the Gascoyne town of Carnarvon north of Perth on Saturday night, bringing 78 millimetres....2024-02-26T23:55+0100agroinsurance-f00a04e18d800d1e1371fe9f31024a4520240226235500Record number of Channel migrants reach UK on single day in Februaryhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/26/record-migrant-crossings-for-a-single-day-in-february/A record 290 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats on Sunday – the highest recorded number for a single day in February. Home Office figures, published on Monday, showed that the 290 people had crossed in five boats, an average of 58 migrants per dinghy, bringing the total to 2,006.2024-02-26T22:09+0100telegraph-c0e3e18f9b7ba106fe34aa7182b620a720240226220900