30520 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-b2542b1aaa370cfdca3fbcb6dbc258c120190125004500https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/world/middleeast/syria-prisoner-majd-kamalmaz.html?partner=rss&emc=rssBEIRUT — Since disappearing in Syria nearly two years ago, an American therapist has missed the birth of one grandchild, then another. His family in the United States does not know where he is, who is holding him, whether he has the diabetes medication he needs or even whether he is still alive.Thu, 24 Jan 2019 23:30:00 +0100nytimes-8f2ec403193244b8fe09673ee0fc432c20190124233000https://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://reliefweb.int/report/world/plus-de-10000-d-c-s-et-61-millions-de-personnes-touch-es-par-des-catastrophesLes catastrophes naturelles ont affecté 61,7 millions de personnes et fait 10.733 décès dans le monde en 2018, a annoncé l’ONU jeudi à Genève. Les tremblements de terre, les tsunamis et les éruptions volcaniques ont été les plus meurtriers parmi les désastres en 2018, avec 289 incidents répertoriés.Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:16:00 +0100reliefWeb-cca17a982749eb85646970cecbb53e0620190124211600