464120 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://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2022/01/26/mil-osi-usa-usaid-announces-additional-2-5-million-in-humanitarian-assistance-in-response-to-volcanic-eruptions-and-tsunami-in-tonga/Source: USAID. The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $2.5 million in humanitarian assistance to support people affected by volcanic eruptions and tsunami waves in Tonga. On January 14, Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano began erupting.2022-01-25T21:00+0100foreignaffairs-nz-f0761d9b578c038c2cce3b25eac79c0620220125210000https://reliefweb.int/report/tonga/usaid-announces-additional-25-million-humanitarian-assistance-response-volcanicFor Immediate Release Tuesday, January 25, 2022 Office of Press Relations press@usaid.gov. The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $2.5 million in humanitarian assistance to support people affected by volcanic eruptions and tsunami waves in Tonga.2022-01-25T20:54+0100reliefWeb-aee6dd164e954b74eae9064eeb37320120220125205400https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/from-bushfires-to-tsunamis-janet-s-quilts-comfort-those-in-need-20220124-p59qqn.htmlJanet MacFadyen’s quilts have been raffled by the Armenian embassy in Paris to pay for orphanages, and were flown to Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami. At the turn of the century, she would regularly drive a trailer full of them from her home in Shepparton to Puckapunyal, where dozens of citizens from war-torn Kosovo had taken refuge.2022-01-25T20:52+0100theherald-au-2675756f09a57140bd1cf94fcd11eaa320220125205200https://sg.news.yahoo.com/tongan-evacuee-recalls-run-high-184637145.html"We had no choice - we stayed on the hill and heard our town getting destroyed," says Tongan evacuee Sione Vailea whose island was left devastated by the volcanic eruption of January 15 and tsunami that it triggered.2022-01-25T20:27+0100yahoo-sg-7d851dd124c6b48cf4cb2861ddc5992220220125202700