4210 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.benzinga.com/news/19/03/13443393/small-island-damaged-by-second-cyclone-this-year?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+benzinga+%28Benzinga+News+Feed%29It's been a busy year so far for cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia has been hit by two major storms this March, and Veronica , that suspended dry bulk shipping around the northern coasts of the country. The world's two largest dry bulk ports Hedland and Dampier are located there, and were still shut down as March 25, 2019.Thu, 28 Mar 2019 20:55:00 +0100benzinga-65d8685fc8290b27dfbe3e8114be40c020190328205500https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/27/weatherwatch-cyclones-batter-southern-hemisphereT ropical Cyclone Idai caused catastrophic flooding across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi last week, with an estimated death toll of 700 people. With the equivalent force of a category 3 hurricane, Idai made its second landfall on 14 March near Beira, Mozambique, and from here it swept inland and on to Zimbabwe and Malawi.Wed, 27 Mar 2019 22:57:00 +0100guardian-b7b6a29d2999d19dd3303a0946d22a1520190327225700https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/nsfc-sft032619.phpIMAGE: NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and captured a visible image of a rapidly dissipating Tropical Cyclone Veronica on March 26, along the coast of Western... Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS).Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:35:00 +0100eurekalert-8dd2c2b79d96992a5f2ee7868316143b20190326183500https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-26/cyclone-veronica-heralds-local-baby-boom/10937718Around 5pm on Sunday evening, at the peak of Cyclone Veronica's impact, heavily pregnant Francis Starr was transported via ambulance to Hedland Health Campus. Ms Starr had a healthy baby girl called Veronica. Amanda McKinley, clinical midwifery and paediatric manager at Hedland Health Campus, helped deliver baby Veronica.Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:17:00 +0100abc-au-78c50322e85ff35bee4b6ff3dbabbb6620190326031700