34850 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 http://www.nampa.org/index.php?model=categories&function=display&id=19008668. Contributed by NAMPA / PTI. BJP, allies hail Modi 'tsunami'; All losers are not losers, asserts Mamata (Eds: Updating with Modi, Shah comments, combining related stories) New Delhi, May 23 (PTI) Buoyed by phenomenal Lok Sabha poll verdict, senior BJP leaders, including Union ministers as also NDA....Thu, 23 May 2019 14:24:00 +0200nampa-2e66150092af0ce71cc133ba27f4c1f820190523142400https://au.news.yahoo.com/black-africans-must-pick-everest-challenge-says-landmark-113714665--spt.htmlThe first black African woman to climb Everest said Thursday that people from her continent must seek "amazing" new challenges to prove they can compete with the best. "There are many places still, unfortunately if you think about it, that we still haven't broken through," Saray Khumalo told AFP in....Thu, 23 May 2019 13:50:00 +0200yahoo-au-173cf179bc3459541bd9be065406ab3c20190523135000https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/9/5/130Abstract An innovative, simplified, and accurate model is proposed and developed to enable simplified yet realistic time history analysis of multi-storey buildings with moment resisting connections using friction energy dissipaters in the commonly used structural analysis and design program, SAP2000.Thu, 23 May 2019 12:03:00 +0200mdpi-b8b358dc477194f67e39e44309565d1b20190523120300https://www.ibtimes.sg/researcher-issues-earthquake-alert-strong-tremors-could-jolt-earth-24-hours-30946Frank Hoogerbeets, a self-proclaimed seismic researcher, has claimed that powerful earthquakes measuring more than 6 in the Richter scale could jolt the planet either today or tomorrow. The Dutch researcher also revealed that a critical planetary alignment involving the Earth, Sun, and Mercury is the cause of this increase in seismic activities.Thu, 23 May 2019 11:14:00 +0200ibtimes-sg-02adc82cd8dab2f78d707720962df26b20190523111400