5610 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://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/asia-and-pacific-weekly-regional-humanitarian-snapshot-16-22-april-2019AFGHANISTAN. Unseasonal heavy rains and floods affected a number of regions of Afghanistan as well as Kabul, between 13 and 19 April. As of 22 April, 1,700 people have been affected with 16 people killed, 112 injured, and 250 houses damaged or destroyed due to flash floods. The floods have also damaged crops and infrastructure, including roads.Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:53:00 +0200reliefWeb-40d55362c1aeaba306479c508d8ae26420190422125300https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/21/explosions-hit-two-sri-lankan-churches-two-hotels-at-easter-policePolice spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera declined to give a breakdown of those killed and wounded. The attacks marked the most significant violence in the country since a bloody civil war ended 10 years ago. Three police officers were killed during a raid on a house in Colombo after the attacks, some of which were suicide bombings, according to officials.Mon, 22 Apr 2019 06:34:00 +0200euronews-en-1261ebcbf315f50e56b4465aba7bd75220190422063400http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-04-21/time-is-ticking.html“Initially I was employed as an electrician for Tri-Chandra Campus in 1980. Now, it's been 32 years since I have been looking after the clock,” says Ganesh Sapkota, 58, who is retiring in the next five years. His replacement is yet be found. The only help he gets is to wind the clock, which needs to be done in pairs of two--twice every week.Mon, 22 Apr 2019 05:00:00 +0200kathmandupost-74d1d545e81adb540efa42ebfcd7e69320190422050000https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/in-a-first-east-asian-birds-make-andaman-stopover/article26905336.eceDistinguished by the green and brown plumage on its back, the dimunitve Horsfield’s Bronze Cuckoo ( Chalcites basalis ) is a native of Australia and New Guinea. However, researcher G. Gokulkrishnan had an unexpected encounter with the tiny bird — roughly about 15 cm and weighing 22 g and known for....Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:19:00 +0200thehindu-fd1fa6445e2980ff7ff65a1aabf49ad820190421201900