2930 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://reliefweb.int/report/world/natural-disasters-2017Executive Summary. In 2017, 335 natural disasters affected over 95.6 million people, killing an additional 9,697 and costing a total of US $335 billion. This burden was not shared equally, as Asia seemed to be the most vulnerable continent for floods and storms, with 44% of all disaster events, 58%....Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:32:00 +0200reliefWeb-167e41090a2d2e7fc7e857a97bddc20a20180905153200https://en.unesco.org/news/indian-ocean-countries-test-tsunami-warning-and-evacuation-procedures-ocean-wide-tsunamibordering the Indian Ocean will engage in Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2018 (IOWave18), a large-scale tsunami exercise based on two scenarios that will be enacted on the 4 th and 5 th September respectively. The scenario to be tested on 4 September will simulate a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the southern coast of Islamic Republic of Iran.Wed, 05 Sep 2018 05:00:00 +0200unesco-b16bc92f3f5a83a3eb3b3590c091cf4f20180905050000https://reliefweb.int/report/world/indian-ocean-countries-test-tsunami-warning-and-evacuation-procedures-ocean-wideTwenty-four countries bordering the Indian Ocean will engage in Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2018 (IOWave18), a large-scale tsunami exercise based on two scenarios that will be enacted on the 4th and 5th September respectively. The scenario to be tested on 4 September will simulate a magnitude 9.Tue, 04 Sep 2018 15:18:00 +0200reliefWeb-b2888294ee775b6256cc7d98b07f2dea20180904151800https://news.un.org/en/audio/2018/09/1018232This is the news in brief from the United Nations Jailed journalists in Myanmar must be freed ‘immediately’, says UN right chief Bachelet. A Myanmar court’s decision to jail two news agency journalists must be reversed, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet has announced.Mon, 03 Sep 2018 17:27:00 +0200un-news-e78f398012c6cda93dc009d22d9daf0120180903172700