1410GDACS EMM News Feed 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 U.S. response to the South Asia earthquake 3 Nov 2005http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6HW8F4?OpenDocumentOffice of the Spokesman Washington, DC The United States announced a commitment of $156 million to Pakistan for earthquake assistance at a United Nations-sponsored donors’ conference in Geneva on October 26. The U.S. package includes commitments of $100 million for humanitarian relief and....2005-11-07T10:08+0100reliefWeb-0e6f6ec29145e0cdbe27b0d98b8561da20051107100800Rape victim: No weapons sales to Pakistanhttp://www.washtimes.com//upi/20051106-035251-1469r.htmRape victim: No weapons sales to Pakistan Nov. 6, 2005 at 5:34PM A Pakistani woman who was gang-raped to punish her brothers urged more aid for victims of the Kashmiri earthquake as she ended a U.S. tour. Mukhtar Mai also said the United States should halt arms sales to Pakistan, the New York Times reported.2005-11-07T00:19+0100washtimes-7aed36aaf1819ea82e6d024bfef2215120051107001900F-16 purchase delayed to buy quake aidhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/04/pakistan.quake.reut/index.htmlMUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) -- Nearly a month after Pakistan's catastrophic earthquake, President Pervez Musharraf says he is postponing the purchase of F-16 warplanes from the United States to provide more relief to quake victims. Musharraf, visiting quake-hit regions on the Eid al-Fitr....2005-11-04T18:37+0100cnn-edc070b9d704e43d245f2c70afcccdc320051104183700Musharraf postpones purchase of F-16 jetshttp://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/04/news/pakistan.phpPresident Pervez Musharraf said Friday that Pakistan would postpone the purchase of F-16 fighter jets from the United States as his country tries to grapple with the devastation of the Oct. 8 earthquake that has claimed more than 73,000 lives. The magnitude 7.2005-11-04T17:32+0100IHT-122065372acd942c8c532a82a8803c2420051104173200