29560 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://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170529/world/cyclone-aims-for-bangladesh-as-flood-toll-rises-to-164-in-sri-lanka.649339Floods and landslides in tropical Sri Lanka have killed at least 164 people, authorities said today, as a cyclone grew in the Bay of Bengal, churning towards Bangladesh and forecast to bring torrential rains to neighbouring India. The floods have reached roof level and cut off access to many rural....Mon, 29 May 2017 10:29:00 +0200timesofmalta-8e8c1dc28d2c361e1d64c68bc98016b420170529102900http://www.news18.com/news/world/cyclone-aims-for-bangladesh-as-flood-toll-rises-to-164-in-sri-lanka-1415427.htmlAgalawatte, Sri Lanka: Floods and landslides in tropical Sri Lanka have killed at least 164 people, authorities said on Monday, as a cyclone grew in the Bay of Bengal, churning towards Bangladesh and forecast to bring torrential rains to neighbouring India.Mon, 29 May 2017 10:14:00 +0200news18-5eee7dbdce41d4e068b5dd21f4a6df1b20170529101400https://www.challenges.fr/monde/inondations-et-glissements-de-terrain-meurtriers-au-sri-lanka_476525?xtor=RSS-32AGALAWATTE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Des inondations et des glissements de terrain au fait au moins 151 morts dans l'ouest du Sri Lanka et les autorités ont dit dimanche redouter de nouvelles coulées de boue en raison de la poursuite des pluies torrentielles.Mon, 29 May 2017 10:12:00 +0200challenges-41974f6a7a981242531041ccb622a6d820170529101200http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-disaster-idUSKBN18O0PN?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29AGALAWATTE, Sri Lanka Floods and landslides in tropical Sri Lanka have killed at least 164 people, authorities said on Monday, as a cyclone grew in the Bay of Bengal, churning towards Bangladesh and forecast to bring torrential rains to neighboring India.Mon, 29 May 2017 09:53:00 +0200reuters-ac2e8d2352f0b6e1a72a7d4529bdc45920170529095300