410 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://theconversation.com/why-aceh-is-a-rare-place-of-welcome-for-rohingya-refugees-143833In late June 2020, 99 Rohingya asylum seekers arrived by boat on the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh, having been stranded at sea for more than 120 days. As authorities deliberated about whether to allow the asylum seekers to disembark, locals from nearby fishing villages took the initiative.Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:12:00 +0200newsnow-co-uk-18c9098077bbd0c04eeb9d93dd10830e20200825081200https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2020/08/25/why-aceh-is-a-rare-place-of-welcome-for-rohingya-refugees-143833/– By Max Walden, PhD Candidate at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. In late June 2020, 99 Rohingya asylum seekers arrived by boat on the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh, having been stranded at sea for more than 120 days. As authorities deliberated about whether to allow the....Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:08:00 +0200foreignaffairs-nz-1331179f8496eb41a3fa7e14467dc3de20200825080800https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/israel-uae-agreement-earthquake-egypt-bahrain-oman.htmlAug 17, 2020. Republicans and Democrats have hailed the Israel-UAE normalization agreement, with some observers going so far as to call it a geopolitical earthquake . But does the agreement merit the hype? One way to look at the question is to consider what genuine regional shakeups have looked like in the past.Mon, 17 Aug 2020 23:06:00 +0200al-monitor-2a35cd56e8132ce88ca93d7ea8161b4820200817230600https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/08/17/On-This-Day-Earthquake-in-Turkey-kills-17000/3841597623796/In 1987, Rudolf Hess, Hitler's former deputy, was found strangled in Berlin's Spandau Prison. He was 93. In 1996, the Reform Party nominated Texas businessman Ross Perot for president. He would go on to lose the 1996 general election with 18.9 percent of the popular vote and zero electoral votes.Mon, 17 Aug 2020 09:53:00 +0200upi-dde5717d52a1e5594de8e15a52ac488120200817095300