20970 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.nampa.org/index.php?model=categories&function=display&id=18579600. Contributed by NAMPA / Xinhua. CHENGDU, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Four hours after a magnitude-5.7 earthquake damaged his house, Hong Kaishi was evacuated to a safe place and given a quilt, bedsheet and bowl of steaming hot noodles. The relocation site provided temporary shelter, medical services and....Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0100nampa-d13b3b96f05eebbaed5604e26e1ff8ec20181219120000https://reliefweb.int/report/china/disaster-relief-supplies-sent-quake-hit-sichuanEditor: ZX. BEIJING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) has dispatched 1,000 cotton tents to residents in southwest China quake-hit areas, providing them with shelter from rain, snow and low temperatures. A total of 386 people have been evacuated from the disaster-hit....Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:00:00 +0100reliefWeb-3c9822ef7b432dba3139bfb544e08acf20181219090000https://phys.org/news/2018-12-indonesia-soputan-volcano-erupts-ejecting.htmlMount Soputan, located on the northern part of Sulawesi island, erupted twice Sunday morning, according to the national disaster agency's spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. He said in anticipation of hot ash and lava sliding down the slope of the volcano, local residents have been urged to avoid activities near the volcano.Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:09:00 +0100phys-bc4e59378c22ffc11f0b1489f3f9281b20181218160900https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-talk/hector-hits-the-road-again-from-kathmandu-to-kung-fu-nuns-37633495.html“We looked at it for two hours, at the 70 destinations we’ve been to,” he says. “Siberia always fascinated Rosco because it’s such a remote place and he’d just come back off SAS, Who Dares Wins on Channel 4 and said we’ve never done anything in the snow.” And so, Hector — Ó Siberia go Saigon was born.Tue, 18 Dec 2018 08:15:00 +0100independent-ie-5dfd7c0a0414369992af56a90420782d20181218081500