255200 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.sundaytimes.lk/180916/sunday-times-2/311496-311496.htmlNEW DELHI – India’s southern state of Kerala has been hit by the worst floods in nearly a century. Now that the floodwaters are receding, a peculiar debate has emerged over whether India should accept foreign aid to support reconstruction. At the peak of the floods, the Indian government allocated....Mon, 17 Sep 2018 05:34:00 +0200sundaytimes-20024092937824bf91363267a185c22b20180917053400http://french.china.org.cn/foreign/txt/2018-09/17/content_63519865.htmUn tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,5 sur l'échelle de Richter s'est produit dimanche à 21h11 GMT dans le sud des Fidji, a indiqué l'Institut des études géologiques des Etats-Unis (USGS). D'une profondeur de 569,97 kilomètres, l'épicentre du séisme a été localisé à 25,4526 degrés de latitude sud et 178,2198 degrés de longitude est.Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:54:00 +0200french.china.org.cn-f7d5b9178056eb37ec0f48d2bcc55c3e20180917005400https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-have-we-learned-anything-from-past-hurricanes/Glenn McGillivray is the managing director at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Just one year after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria (also known as HIM) wreaked havoc across parts of the Caribbean and the United States causing around US$92-billion in insured damage (not including....Sun, 16 Sep 2018 23:02:00 +0200theglobeandmail-cf92fbb6ba98ac467bd0044f8551253520180916230200https://au.news.yahoo.com/aftershocks-felt-days-rare-earthquake-100658936.htmlWest Australians may feel aftershocks from a 5.6-magnitude earthquake for days, a Geoscience Australia senior seismologist says. The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre detected the earthquake, reported as being centred between Kojonup and Walpole just before 1pm local time on Sunday.Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:27:00 +0200yahoo-au-9e06a8b1a5c5c238dacd6f178a372e5e20180916152700