10100 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://akipress.com/news:631519:Shymkent_feels_tremors_of_strong_quake_in_Afghanistan/AKIPRESS.COM - Tremors of a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that rattled in Afghanistan on December 20 afternoon were felt in Shymkent, according to the Kazakh seismologists, Vlast.kz reports. The quake occurred 882 km south-west of Almaty at 5:39 pm Almaty time. Tremors of 3 points were felt in Shymkent.Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:47:00 +0100ca-news-8a560bd3dd4a07be51d0a6ab4c62791920191223084700https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2019/12/23/mil-osi-united-nations-the-2010-2020-un-news-decade-in-review-part-one/Source: United Nations 3. The teenage years of the Twenty-First Century are nearly over and, as we prepare to enter the 2020s, UN News takes a look back at some of the big stories on our global patch, that unfolded between 2010 and 2019: welcome to our three-part Decade in Review.Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:28:00 +0100foreignaffairs-nz-5f6e0cc8177830e6d99a4ba399b77f3720191223082800https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1053481The decade began with an immense disaster in Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. A devastating, 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the island on January 12, killing hundreds and thousands of people (220,000 according to Haitian Government figures), and causing severe damage to buildings.Mon, 23 Dec 2019 07:56:00 +0100un-org-25c3b2ba9517825880311fa1fb38550a20191223075600https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1053481The decade began with an immense disaster in Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. A devastating, 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the island on January 12, killing hundreds and thousands of people (220,000 according to Haitian Government figures), and causing severe damage to buildings.Mon, 23 Dec 2019 07:40:00 +0100un-news-25c3b2ba9517825880311fa1fb38550a20191223074000