2300GDACS EMM News Feed 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 New Balakot City remains a distant dreamhttps://tribune.com.pk/story/2246455/1-new-balakot-city-remains-distant-dream/BALAKOT: Around 15 years past the devastating earthquake of 2005 that ravage the northern Pakistan, people of Balokot wait for the development of new city they were promised. Despite spending billions of rupees, the government has yet to complete the New Balakot City project.Sat, 20 Jun 2020 07:47:00 +0200tribune-00e9132991e1a4f83aac150770fcda3120200620074700147 earthquakes reported yesterday within 24 hours worldwidehttps://dailytimes.com.pk/628031/147-earthquakes-reported-yesterday-within-24-hours-worldwide/This year is getting worse with each passing day. Australian bush fire, the deadly coronavirus pandemic, many unfortunate deaths, mental illness and suicides, plane crashes, and whatnot, this year hasn’t come up with any good news yet. 5.1 magnitude #earthquake in Pakistan.Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:17:00 +0200dailytimesPK-5029fedbacb382a60bb93dd0edb5030f202006171217005.7 magnitude quake jolts various parts of Pakistan, IOKhttps://www.thenews.com.pk/print/673637-5-7-magnitude-quake-jolts-various-parts-of-pakistan-iokISLAMABAD: A 5.7 magnitude earthquake jolted several parts of the country and Indian occupied Kashmir on Tuesday. Tremors were felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Swat, North Waziristan, Nowshera, Swat, Mansehra and Abbottabad. The quake also jolted Lower and Upper Dir, Shangla, Swabi, Malakand, Charsadda, Kohat, Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu.Wed, 17 Jun 2020 03:54:00 +0200thenews-pk-b605df5a43306d100edba6dd79b5f74920200617035400How much learning may be lost in the long-run from COVID-19 and how can mitigation strategies help?https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2020/06/15/how-much-learning-may-be-lost-in-the-long-run-from-covid-19-and-how-can-mitigation-strategies-help/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=FeedBlitzRss&utm_content=How+much+learning+may+be+lost+in+the+long-run+from+COVID-19+and+how+can+mitigation+strategies+help%3fRecent evidence suggests that the long-term learning losses from COVID-19 school closures could be big—far surpassing the short-term learning losses experienced during the school closures themselves. A study of the impact of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan found that while children missed three....Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:41:00 +0200brookings-02fb3673908ebc28cdba77c336f16a2f20200615174100