3710 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://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3503/s/3bb9b63/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cnews0Cworld0Ceurope0Cquestions0Eover0Ebuilding0Estandards0Eas0Eaftershocks0Econtinue0E16653580Bhtml/story01.htmThe death toll in Italy's worst earthquake for 30 years jumped to 235 last night, with exhausted rescue workers battling the precarious mountains of rubble and a series of jarring aftershocks includ...2009-04-08T03:40+0200AfghanistanSun-94311406f3152a73d8ae62662fbbc12520090408034000http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/questions-over-building-standards-as-aftershocks-continue-1665358.htmlThe death toll in Italy's worst earthquake for 30 years jumped to 207 yesterday, with exhausted rescue workers battling the precarious mountains of rubble and a series of jarring aftershocks in their attempt to dig out any last remaining survivors.2009-04-08T01:18+0200independent-03e2fe734511b351acde199db001237420090408011800http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7QV9A9?OpenDocument&RSS20=18-PGeneva/Beijing - The World Health Organization (WHO) is today celebrating World Health Day by focussing attention on the large numbers of lives that can be saved during earthquakes, floods , conflicts and other emergencies through the better design and construction of health facilities and preparing and training of health staff.2009-04-07T21:34+0200reliefWeb-350578f5ef517934c1c3fbd7ed4398ec20090407213400http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6631479.htmlAn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 jolted northern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The focus of the quake, which occurred at 13:24 p.m., was some 10 kilometers underground in the Chishima-retto region in Hokkaido. There were no reports of injuries or damage. No tsunami warning was issued.2009-04-07T12:55+0200peopledaily-0fc269337b27bf9e1e962abd25245fef20090407125500