10650 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 http://bangkokpost.net/News/14Dec2005_news22.phpIt's been a tough year of natural disasters. Since last year's Sumatran earthquake and subsequent tsunami wreaked havoc on Asia and parts of east Africa, killing hundreds of thousands of people and displacing millions from their homes, we have seen the likes of Hurricane Katrina in the southern states of the United States, as well as heavy floods in Europe, extensive forest fires in Spain and Portugal, and mega-earthquakes in Indonesia and Pakistan. The human dimensions of these tragedies cannot be underplayed and the economic costs are still being calculated. But is there anything we could have done to soften these blows?2005-12-13T20:47+0100BangkokPost-536d28c4b2ad8daa2d1ba6db482023c820051213204700http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/United+States+Earthquake/SIG=12eog6oj8/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/wl_canada_nm/canada_politics_ca_col_25 A Conservative government would be open to co-operation between Canada and the United States on missile defense, but would still not send troops to Iraq, party leader Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:17:48 GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/United+States+Earthquake/SIG=12eog6oj8/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/wl_canada_nm/canada_politics_ca_col_2520051213181748http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/United+States+Earthquake/SIG=12kqgimun/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051213/sc_afp/quakesasiapakistanunaid_051213131816 The United Nations appealed for immediate funds to protect some 1.9 million Pakistani earthquake survivors facing the bitter Himalayan winter.Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:18:16 GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/United+States+Earthquake/SIG=12kqgimun/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051213/sc_afp/quakesasiapakistanunaid_05121313181620051213141816http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/United+States+Earthquake/SIG=12srvv35e/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051213/wl_sthasia_afp/quakesasiapakistanunaid_051213125107 The United Nations appealed for immediate funds to protect some 1.9 million Pakistani earthquake survivors facing the bitter Himalayan winter.Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:51:07 GMThttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/United+States+Earthquake/SIG=12srvv35e/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051213/wl_sthasia_afp/quakesasiapakistanunaid_05121312510720051213135107