17761280 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/WO2310/S00200/afghanistan-earthquakes-staggering-health-consequences.htmTemperatures have already started to drop into single figures. With about two-thirds of the affected areas assessed, more than 21,500 homes are confirmed destroyed and a further 17,000 severely damaged, according to the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office ( OCHA ). Over 154,000 people have been impacted.2023-10-21T21:54+0200scoop-co-nz-efec2c2091fc9cefe4cd52f19dddac4d20231021215400https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/bbc/Some-men-bin-no-gree-touch-women-wey-injure-or-die-1866245Di United Nations don confam say about 90% of pipo wey di 7 October Afghanistan earthquake kill na women and pikin dem. Di earthquake happun for di Herat province for di western part of di kontri and UN say e kill almost 1,300 pipo. Di BBC follow doctors, witnesses and activists tok and dem blame di....2023-10-21T20:25+0200ghanaweb-ab273d494fe0c0cfc529eae9abdd3e8a20231021202500https://english.news.cn/20231021/b0fa00b578aa4b98a04214668975038b/c.htmlPeople are seen near China-donated tents in Herat Province, Afghanistan. West Afghanistan's Herat province has experienced its ever-destructive earthquakes in recent decades as several tremors, some measuring a magnitude 6.3, caused thousands of casualties.2023-10-21T18:05+0200english-news-cn-9d2c6aea29e01c15c241de28a01c499220231021180500https://english.news.cn/20231021/b0fa00b578aa4b98a04214668975038b/c.htmlPeople are seen near China-donated tents in Herat Province, Afghanistan. West Afghanistan's Herat province has experienced its ever-destructive earthquakes in recent decades as several tremors, some measuring a magnitude 6.3, caused thousands of casualties.2023-10-21T18:02+0200xinhuanet-english-9d2c6aea29e01c15c241de28a01c499220231021180200