475310GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Extreme weather events affected 60 million people in 2018 – U.N.https://in-cyprus.com/extreme-weather-events-affected-60-million-people-in-2018-u-n/Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, said: “No part of the globe was spared from the impact of extreme weather events last year. Examined floods, droughts, storms and wildfires affected 57.3 million people, underlining once more that if we want....Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:31:00 +0100in-cyprus-94ed48b7b588de5bf8eecfd40b88509020190125123100Nearly 61.7 mn affected due to extreme weather events in 2018: UN reporthttps://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/61-mn-people-affected-by-extreme-weather-events-in-2018-un-report-119012500123_1.htmland 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 (UNISDR) said on Thursday. There were 281 extreme weather events recorded by the Center for Research....Fri, 25 Jan 2019 05:08:00 +0100business-standard-58076c5618da396d3c31afa3e740c8bd20190125050800Death Toll in Indonesia Floods Climbs to 30, 25 Missinghttp://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2473917&CategoryId=12395JAKARTA – Indonesian authorities raised on Thursday the number of people killed due to floods, landslides and strong winds in the southern part of the island of Sulawesi to 30, while 25 people were missing. Another 47 have been injured, while 3,321 people have been displaced, Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said.Fri, 25 Jan 2019 04:16:00 +0100laht-a7bca40007c74d0f1d4f4d0fee8c744d2019012504160061 million people affected by extreme weather events in 2018: UN reporthttp://www.ecns.cn/news/2019-01-25/detail-ifzcykxs9528405.shtmlGENEVA, 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.Fri, 25 Jan 2019 03:39:00 +0100ecns-4e9ffcaeb6df9c4c145170e36770522d20190125033900