59540 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.foxnews.com/opinion/if-youre-hit-by-a-natural-disaster-youll-be-glad-government-did-these-thingsI’m a senior Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official with 30 years of experience in disaster preparedness and recovery at the local, state and federal level. I understand the obstacles communities face before and after a disaster strikes. Recently I traveled to California from Washington....Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:33:00 +0100foxnews-23f4a8f3004525cd0303893a45475daf20190214103300https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/01/west-africa-pre-colonial-fistful-shells-toby-green-reviewThe German philosopher Hegel claimed that Africa “is no historical part of the world”. The corollary of this was taken to be that African history only began when Europeans started to arrive. This idea, and variants of it, became one of the fallacies deployed to justify the Atlantic slave trade,....Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:17:00 +0100newstatesman-f5f73394e63ce42e9f6e94a2fa3c588920190130191700https://psmag.com/news/viewfinder-damage-from-a-powerful-tornado-in-havanaBy Pacific Standard Staff Pacific Standard publishes stories that matter, stories that, by virtue of their ideas and craft, are capable of creating a better and more just society. With a methodology that mixes reporting and narrative journalism with peer-reviewed research, we are fiercely committed to covering social and environmental justice.Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:10:00 +0100psmag-3f224cde7f97ededba4e930efc927ab320190129111000https://koaa.com/ap-world-news/2019/01/27/the-latest-israeli-searchers-to-help-brazil-in-dam-collapse/BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AP) — The latest on the deadly mine waste dam collapse in southeastern Brazil (all times local): 9:30 p.m. The Civil Defense office in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has raised the number of confirmed deaths in a dam collapse to 58.Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:58:00 +0100koaa-8637cd88023568d592c0927de8e01bc720190128135800