1320 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://tribune.com.pk/story/1929659/6-pakistan-oblivious-climate-threats/The writer is a development anthropologist. He can be reached at [email protected] There is a plethora of alarming assessments pointing out how Pakistan is amongst the leading victims of global warming and climate change, yet it is surprising that not many people within the country seem too worried about this situation.Fri, 15 Mar 2019 06:11:00 +0100tribune-5900dbff0a7a9d7d1c88feeccb1dc1da20190315061100https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/chilling-reality-afghanistan-suffers-worst-floods-seven-yearsBy Haroon Janjua and Karen McVeigh. Thousands of homes swept away as rains follow devastating drought, with UN ‘shocked’ by lack of crisis funding support. has been hit with the worst flooding in seven years, with 20 dead, thousands of homes swept away and many families, already displaced by drought, forced to leave their homes for the second time.Wed, 06 Mar 2019 10:51:00 +0100reliefWeb-595111f380ce81f1fa97d54c85eb35d120190306105100http://www.outlookafghanistan.net/editorialdetail.php?post_id=23043Winter season and severe weather conditions are very challenging for Afghanistan. Particularly, people living in rural areas of the country have to face different sorts of hardships and troubles. In certain cases, those hardships come in the form of different calamities or natural disasters.Tue, 05 Mar 2019 05:05:00 +0100outlookafghanistan-7f212e3d9936c8af36f94069c1427cf320190305050500http://www.arabnews.com/node/1461591/mediaLONDON: Photographer Yannis Behrakis, who has died aged 58, helped document the recent history of the Middle East like few others. During his decades-long career at Reuters, Behrakis covered seismic events in the region, including the Egyptian uprising of 2011 and the Syrian refugee crisis, for which his team earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2016.Tue, 05 Mar 2019 04:02:00 +0100arabnews-f3fade3f0a94b6ef749f4eaed9496ba120190305040200