134940 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://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12088339/TEHRAN, Iran - Earthquakes and aftershocks rattled western Iran one after another, flattening villages and sending frightened homeowners into the streets. By Friday morning 70 people were dead, 1,200 wounded, and thousands homeless. The death toll would have been much higher, residents said, but....2006-04-01T04:21+0200newsweek-ef7dc8a558cf0670a43aa2ee4fdd40b220060401042100http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=139678&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29012TEHRAN: At least 70 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Iran early yesterday, destroying whole villages and sending frightened residents fleeing from their homes, according to the latest toll. Another 1,265 people were injured in the quake which hit at about 4.47am, the province of Lorestan near the border with Iraq with a force of 6.0 on the Richter scale, state television quoted the Iranian interior ministry's natural disaster committee as saying.2006-04-01T03:12+0200GulfDailyNews-fcb88bb8162df8b9809e5a9b838645fe20060401031200http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_14556.shtmlUN rushes experts to assess damage in quake-struck Iran 31 March 2006 - The United Nations is sending an inter-agency assessment team to Iran after an overnight earthquake killed or injured hundreds and is ready provide any aid that may been needed and to mobilize international assistance, officials of the world body said today. Mar 31, 2006, 18:192006-04-01T03:00+0200iranian-72315f44f38b5fce1d8a12ba8b1b084f20060401030000http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_14555.shtmlAll that remained of Parviz Lashani's two-storey home was the facade. Yet it was still the only structure in his village that even vaguely resembled a building after Friday's earthquake in Iran. "I am happy that I am at least alive, but look at my life, what have I got left," said 35-year-old Lashani, who survived with his wife and two children. Mar 31, 2006, 18:182006-04-01T03:00+0200iranian-fd6ce4df883193e9df6bc17f3676bf3f20060401030000