191680 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.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU2208/S00024/sky-tower-turns-25-today.htmMore than 10 million people have visited the Tower since it was built by Fletcher Construction in 1997. At 328 metres it’s the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere. SkyCity’s CEO, Michael Ahearne, says the Tower is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the country: “SkyCity owns the....2022-08-02T23:42+0200scoop-co-nz-b35e5f0f268d8444771c7fc8396dc03320220802234200https://www.9news.com.au/world/tonga-eruption-threw-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-atmosphere-nasa-says/fb3cca29-d44b-4186-8e8f-70c9e9aee762Footage from the GOES-17 satellite of the umbrella cloud generated by the eruption of underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on January 15, 2022, off the coast of South America. (NASA/Joshua Stevens/GOES/NOAA/NESDIS) Tonga experienced a 6.1 magnitude earthquake and tsunami after the eruption.2022-08-02T23:39+02009news-d8789b7fe7f6752d6ae25e17a6ef371f20220802233900https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kentucky-basketball-players-step-help-201201511.htmlThe University of Kentucky basketball player spoke less than a week after catastrophic flooding hit the eastern part of the state, and on the eve of his team’s efforts to help. Fredrick was joined at the podium by UK Coach John Calipari and teammates Oscar Tshiebwe and Jacob Toppin.2022-08-02T20:24+0200news-yahoo-uk-5b7079ec0dd1b6e8d07513fe3cce93ee20220802202400https://www.newsweek.com/uss-ronald-reagan-us-aircraft-carrier-taiwan-1730066As tensions have grown between Washington and Beijing over the potential visit of House speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, renewed attention has been focused on the U.S. military presence in the South China Sea and the area surrounding the self-governing island claimed by China as part of its territory.2022-08-02T17:57+0200newsweek-USA-450ec64c12e0df7e1ee57c5f6972a1c220220802175700