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.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/15/c_137180913.htmAYBAK, Afghanistan, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Heavy rains and flooding have claimed seven lives and destroyed residential houses in Afghanistan's northern Samangan and Baghlan provinces. According to Samangan police spokesman Mohammed Munir Rahimi, the torrential rain and flood claimed the lives of seven....Tue, 15 May 2018 13:28:00 +0200xinhuanet_en-599b508a6020649faf7cbc3b2e3ad335xinhuanet_enen36.260502 68.040047NaturalDisastersMohammed Munir20180515132800https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/iom-humanitarian-assistance-programme-hap-weekly-report-18-24-april-2018Submission Date: 25 April 2018. Natural Disasters, Conflict IDPs, Coordination and DRR activity UPDATE: 18 April to 24 April 2018. Natural Disasters Update: Herat: As per the initial report obtained from ANDMA, 413 Families were reportedly displaced due to dry spell from different districts....Sat, 19 May 2018 01:17:00 +0200reliefWeb-5b877963e8bcb7be4e84567bd49bc779reliefWeben36.272381 64.866226FoodSecurityFoodAidNaturalDisastersUNbodiesIOMIRCUNICEFWFP20180519011700https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/landslide-kills-one-injures-13-takharWritten by The Frontier Post. Monitoring Desk. KUNDUZ: Landslide triggered by torrential rains killed at least one person and wounded 13 others in northeastern Takhar province, officials said Friday. A mound collapsed due to heavy rain in the Qarlaq Sali area of Rastaq district Friday morning,....Sat, 19 May 2018 10:18:00 +0200reliefWeb-48ac29a73eef7690fdd20d3fb29ac555reliefWeben36.76519 68.798782ConflictNaturalDisastersFrontier Post20180519101800