117240 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://ec.europa.eu/echo/aggregator_enThe massive truck blast of Saturday 14 October in Mogadishu, one of the worst the city has suffered in over a decade, has claimed more than 300 lives and left an estimated 300 people injured and in need of medical care, including humanitarian actors. These numbers are expected to rise as hundreds more are still missing.Wed, 18 Oct 2017 04:38:00 +0200EC-66dbc996d6ccd2141be00c0fb6c1655c20171018043800http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id6623Tropical Depression 23W was a relatively weak system but unleashed torrential rain over northern and central Vietnam, causing the country's worst flooding in decades. Nearly 50,000 houses across the region were flooded or destroyed. At least 83 people were confirmed to have died as of Tuesday,....Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:29:00 +0200bnonews-36d3566d36add35817de8da9ee6ab3e320171017222900http://english.china.com/news/china/54/20171017/1101703.htmlDue to the effect of typhoon Khanun as well as a cold front, Shanghai has been wet and damp for days. It was raining cats and dogs in Pudong's southern areas. From 8am Sunday to 7am yesterday, rainfall reached 104.5 millimeters in Luchao Port and 93 millimeters in Lingang New City.Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:06:00 +0200china-ef332c5344f64d5ae487a3213f49a5a720171017090600https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/ndrrmc-update-sitrep-no-05-re-preparedness-measures-and-effects-tropial-stormI. Situation Overview. 11 October 2017. At 10:00 PM, the Low Pressure Area (LPA) Northeast of Borongon City, Eastern Samar has developed into a Tropical Depression and was named "ODETTE". It has maximum sustained winds of 45kph near the center and gustiness of up to 60 kph. It is forecast to move West Northwest at 26kph.Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:47:00 +0200reliefWeb-21bf7b58507cb5637f7471c5e0cbbfdd20171017084700