342610 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://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/29/un-true-blood-japans-weird-taste-for-discrimination-against-type-bsIt’s worth reiterating that there has been no scientific evidence—zero, zip, none at all— found to link blood types to personalities, yet the myth persists. Prof. Yamaoka has done extensive research debunking the myth of blood-type-based personalities and showing the discrimination that the stereotypes bring.Mon, 29 May 2017 05:47:00 +0200thedailybeast-035375217ee10bab38506db29ac5ecc220170529054700http://regional.kompas.com/read/2017/05/29/09580851/bnpb.aceh.diguncang.gempa.5.sr.tidak.berpotensi.tsunamiJAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Kepala Pusat Data Informasi dan Humas BNPB Sutopo Purwo Nugroho menyebutkan, gempa bumi mengguncang Provinsi Aceh pada Senin (29/5/2017) pagi, pukul 04.54 WIB. Gempa ini sempat membuat masyarakat panik dan berhamburan. Sutopo mengatakan, gempa terjadi pada 27 kilometer barat....Mon, 29 May 2017 05:17:00 +0200kompas-3867e04c4a24f329efe9b2236fa3d81d20170529051700https://www.piratefm.co.uk/news/world-news/2298120/sri-lanka-flash-floods-leave-half-a-million-people-displaced-/At least 151 people have been killed in floods and landslides in Sri Lanka - with about half a million people displaced. The torrential rains - the worst to hit the country since 2003 - swamped western and southern regions. The country has deployed some 2,000 military personnel to assist in the rescue effort.Mon, 29 May 2017 04:58:00 +0200piratefm-02d5bf39d04129193b864fe5faa85fa420170529045800http://www.blick.ch/news/ausland/wegen-ein-paar-minuten-haben-sie-nicht-ueberlebt-so-knapp-war-das-dino-drama-id6707113.htmlAsche- und Staubwolken hüllten den Planeten ein. Sonnenlicht drang kaum mehr bis zur Erdoberfläche. «Die Temperaturen fielen weltweit innerhalb weniger Tage um mehr als zehn Grad», erklärt Biologe Ben Garrod in der BBC-Doku. Es wurde dunkel, ganze Nahrungsketten brachen zusammen. Über 70 Prozent aller Tiere und Pflanzen starben.Mon, 29 May 2017 03:07:00 +0200blick-548858c238fb34758cc2b697968133f020170529030700