170490 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://www.businessinsider.fr/une-meteorite-serait-a-lorigine-du-recit-biblique-de-la-destruction-de-sodome-188975Il y a environ 3 600 ans, les habitants de la ville de Tall el-Hammam commençaient leur journée comme d’habitude. Un garde était probablement assis sur le parapet du palais local. Quand, au sud-ouest, un objet tomba du ciel. "Tout d'un coup, cette chose explose dans un éclat de lumière soudain", a raconté le chercheur Malcolm LeCompte à Insider.2021-10-20T17:00+0200businessinsider-fr-f2751d37d1c211d7893777549c43d93320211020170000https://news.yahoo.com/meteor-incinerated-residents-ancient-city-173527930.html?_guc_consent_skip=1634669185In the biblical story of Sodom, God destroys the city and its inhabitants due to their wickedness. that wrecked the ancient city of Tall el-Hammam. A 165-foot meteor exploded in the sky there 3,600 years ago, incinerating people and homes. About 3,600 years ago, residents of the city of Tall el-Hammam started their days like any other.2021-10-19T20:45+0200news-yahoo-a952ed2ef4d93b9d37a956adf2fe2b0820211019204500https://www.newsweek.com/haiti-kidnappings-live-updates-1639857A notorious Haitian gang abducted 17 people from a U.S.-based missionary organization east of Port-ai-Prince Saturday, Haitian police inspector Frantz Champagne told The Associated Press. The 400 Mawozo abducted 16 American citizens, one Canadian from the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries.2021-10-18T16:31+0200newsweek-e2adc873070b627baf2ff4e132d8862620211018163100https://www.news.com.au/world/desperate-message-sent-before-group-of-american-missionaries-abducted/news-story/e67174d158416ebf6d72e33c36ff3187“Please pray for us!! We are being held hostage, they kidnapped our driver. Pray pray pray. We don’t know where they are taking us,” group message said, according to a report in the Washington Post. The terrifying message came as the group which includes adult missionaries as well as their children....2021-10-17T22:04+0200news_com_au-b11a02fdd49f80879a22b316b85ecf5020211017220400