1022140 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://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/asia-and-pacific-weekly-regional-humanitarian-snapshot-17-23-january-2017SRI LANKA. As of 17 January, an estimated 644,000 people across eight provinces have been affected by drought and salt water intrusion over the past four months. Batticaloa District in Eastern province is the worst affected with 302,000 people experiencing the effects of drought.Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:40:00 +0100reliefWeb-6bfd401e7f644e3f8e1302f0e00d8ea820170123114000http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/art-rebirth-un-projet-dessine-impressionnant-sur-le-tsunamiTrois ans, trois mois et douze jours, c’est le temps qu’il a fallu au Japonais Manabu Ikeda pour dessiner son projet Rebirth . Incroyablement détaillée et minutieuse, l’œuvre fait écho au tsunami de 2011 et à la crise nucléaire qui a suivi. Pour le site , “Rebirth The Creators Project représente trois ans à réfléchir au désastre.Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:35:00 +0100courrierinternational-288a3ae609a0d98409f114aade81bdf820170123113500http://ilcentro.gelocal.it/pescara/cronaca/2017/01/23/news/diga-di-campotosto-nuovi-dubbi-sulla-tenuta-ma-l-enel-rassicura-1.14759119CAMPOTOSTO. Trecento milioni di metri cubi di acqua, uno “tsunami” che investirebbe la vallata circostante, spazzando via tutto quello che incontra sul suo cammino. Uno scenario apocalittico, quello del crollo della diga di Campotosto, evocato e subito dopo ridimensionato dalla Commissione grandi....Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:34:00 +0100ilcentro-98622dd146b9920ac428fddfe712ce5c20170123103400http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2429650&CategoryId=12395SYDNEY – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake shook the island of Bouganville in eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday, leading authorities to issue a tsunami alert in several countries in this region of the Pacific. The United States Geological Survey, which keeps track of seismic activity worldwide, located....Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:10:00 +0100laht-d709cc206a5416c8fd17659b0142a45520170123101000