354300GDACS 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 Quake kills two, injures hundreds in Iran: state mediahttp://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/quake-kills-two-injures-hundreds-in-iran-state-media/article/492569By AFP yesterday in World A 5.7 magnitude earthquake near Iran's border with Turkmenistan killed two people, injured hundreds and caused widespread damage, state media reported Sunday, citing the country's seismological centre. The quake, which struck at 1800 GMT Saturday in and around the city of....Mon, 15 May 2017 14:20:00 +0200digitaljournal-5a496f657a961f9eaf04bfb13b3c79b720170515142000First Gurkhas reach Everest summit First Gurkhas reach Everest summit A group of Gurkhas - including troops based in Kent - have become the first serving soldiers from the brigade to climb Everest.http://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/first-gurkhas-reach-everest-summit-125688/A team of Gurkhas from Folkestone have become the first serving soldiers from the brigade to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The soldiers, including from the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles (2RGR) based at Shorncliffe, completed climbing the world’s highest mountain on Monday morning.Mon, 15 May 2017 13:45:00 +0200kentonline-7806d71aa926234b651a8d4ed735c44120170515134500Over 50 per cent population lives in disaster-prone areas: Rajnath Singhhttp://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/over-50-per-cent-population-lives-in-disaster-prone-areas-rajnath-singh/669298/Home Minister Rajnath Singh today described India as one of the most disaster-prone nations, saying more than 50 per cent population of the country lives in areas that are vulnerable to calamities. By: | New Delhi | Published: May 15, 2017 3:28 PM PTI “We have been working in a planned manner for....Mon, 15 May 2017 12:56:00 +0200financialexpress-4844db89dc4d4fe52d06dc821f53319520170515125600Two Killed, Hundreds Injured in Iran Earthquakehttp://www.albawaba.com/news/two-killed-hundreds-injured-iran-earthquake-974492A 5.7 magnitude earthquake near Iran's border with Turkmenistan killed at least two people, injured hundreds and caused widespread damage, state media reported on Sunday, citing the country's seismological centre. The quake, which struck at 1800 GMT on Saturday in and around the city of Bojnurd,....Mon, 15 May 2017 11:23:00 +0200albawaba-en-c84c7585d16f898a45a3cef94e6d230c20170515112300