323300 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://www.kenyastar.com/news/259194156/extreme-weather-events-affected-60m-people-in-2018---unisdrGENEVA, 24 January, 2019 Earthquakes and tsunamis accounted for the majority of the 10,373 lives lost in disasters last year while extreme weather events accounted for most of 61.7 million people affected by natural hazards, according to analysis of 281 events recorded by the Centre for Research on....Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:45:00 +0100kenyastar-b2542b1aaa370cfdca3fbcb6dbc258c120190125004500http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/25/c_137772132.htmGENEVA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Earthquakes and tsunamis accounted for most of the 10,373 lives lost in disasters last year, while extreme weather events accounted for most of 61.7 million people affected by natural hazards, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) said Thursday.Thu, 24 Jan 2019 23:17:00 +0100xinhuanet_en-4e9ffcaeb6df9c4c145170e36770522d20190124231700https://reliefweb.int/report/world/2018extreme-weather-events-affected-60m-peopleGENEVA, 24 January, 2019 – Earthquakes and tsunamis accounted for the majority of the 10,373 lives lost in disasters last year while extreme weather events accounted for most of 61.7 million people affected by natural hazards, according to analysis of 281 events recorded by the Centre for Research....Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:16:00 +0100reliefWeb-efa5648722885cb3e2af81cb1453ed2e20190124211600https://www.aljazeera.com/profile/wayne-hay.html. "Wayne Hay has been covering the Asia/Pacific region since 2001, first with Television New Zealand before joining Al Jazeera English in 2006. In his role at Al Jazeera, he has travelled the region extensively, reporting on everything from elections and natural disasters to surfing in Bali.Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:41:00 +0100aljazeera-en-fdc4451fe9c936f403fd6dac7b900af020190124194100