14630 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://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw-mayor-wants-flood-prone-042942012.html?_guc_consent_skip=1654058623Emergency services should be merged and residents at risk of inundation moved, a northern NSW mayor has told an inquiry examining the state's flood response. Tweed Shire Mayor Chris Cherry has told a hearing in Murwillumbah people in flood-prone areas should be re-housed elsewhere and the number of agencies that respond to emergencies consolidated.2022-06-01T06:43+0200yahoo-au-e1398401641468f586b94f6a46ac736f20220601064300https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/3400-year-old-lost-city-re-emerges-from-tigris-river/An international group of archaeologists have unearthed a 3,400-year-old city under the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen. The “Lost City of Atlantis” isn’t real, but this one was. An international group of archaeologists has unearthed a....2022-06-01T02:44+0200nypost-67a21919da68b445c4418efa5cf1185020220601024400https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/2022-flood-cost-continues-to-rise/The cost of the record-breaking flood that hit South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales earlier this year continues to rise and is now Australia’s fourth costliest disaster, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) said today. As of Tuesday 31 May, insured losses are estimated at $4.3 billion from 216,465 claims across both states.2022-06-01T01:31+0200nationaltribune-a9b07fcaffe0ff81c9e281a39117ad1620220601013100https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-rush-investigate-3400-year-old-city-emerging-tigris-river-1711827A team of archaeologists had to scramble to investigate a 3,400-year-old city before it disappeared again after it emerged from the Tigris River in Iraq due to drought. Their fast reaction allowed them to discover over 100 ancient clay tablets, with one researcher labeling the discovery and the fact....2022-05-31T22:30+0200newsweek-USA-eb76adedc2689e4d36d865d9e09248f020220531223000