65160 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.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=107084Indonesia, Samoa and the Philippines struggled to recover bodies and care for displaced citizens following a string of natural disasters which struck Southeast Asia this week.In the city of Padang, Indonesia, which was devastated by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday, emergency teams worked....Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:32:00 +0200LBdailystar-4964ac0509909c0cade786118106ca7e20091002223200http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_latest/~3/jEl_7pswyn8/index.htmlThis week in iReport, we received compelling images and stories from major international natural disasters: a tsunami in the Samoan Islands and flooding in the Philippines from Typhoon Ketsana. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hosted the G-20 summit, and iReporters chronicled the scene as protesters and police clashed in the streets.Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:31:00 +0200cnn-23e0fde1bec424defd6249b10bf8b90120091002213100http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/UNICEF/235ed38153cdcc44a84257df16b69bb8.htm02 Oct 2009 19:09:28 GMT Source: UNICEF NEW YORK, 2 October 2009 – A convergence of severe natural disasters has left millions of people in distress across Asia and the Pacific this week. Since 26 September, a total of six countries have been hit by flooding, a typhoon, a tsunami and earthquakes.Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:25:00 +0200alertnet-98e58e1d12d9bbc18ff2bac9c965027d20091002212500http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-02-voa43.cfm?rss=topstoriesInternational Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is mounting a huge humanitarian relief operation to help victims of six natural disasters in Asia-Pacific areaFri, 02 Oct 2009 21:05:00 +0200voanews-7419f84767a9382a2f6d48c8f406eea620091002210500