2900 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.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888CAA0-B3DB-1461-98B9-E20E7B9C13D4&lng=en&id=95415The US military has launched a public relations offensive to protect its medical diplomacy efforts. But will Obama go along? Peter A Buxbaum writes for ISN Security Watch.2009-01-16T10:57+0100ISN-3d71a40d68ac54c2805ac9112c19a03e20090116105700http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LC404602.htm13 Jan 2009 09:00:10 GMT Source: Reuters LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The following are various risks facing the world as listed in the World Economic Forum's Global Risk 2009 report, released on Tuesday. * Indicates new risks added this year ...2009-01-13T10:31+0100alertnet-caed9ee0a7867504063e8d7fd522e9b720090113103100http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/latimes/news/nationworld/world/~3/b4g2qff7-CY/la-fg-briefs10-2009jan10,0,2054722.storyKenya: Emergency declared as officials fear millions may go hungry / Afghanistan: 3 U.S. soldiers killed in blast / Costa Rica: Earthquake toll rises to 14 KENYA2009-01-10T09:11+0100latimes-36ababbc0ede01f845e26fd0b417b2d120090110091100http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=156311Earthquake caused by regime change will empower democratic forces throughout the Muslim world and force much of the Salafi-jihadist warrior community2009-01-10T00:05+0100NewsJang-en-22b9a75b151c287c373584eb27f36ce120090110000500