8750 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.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/219158/125667461359.htmPHILIPPINES: HELPING DISASTER SURVIVORS In the Philippines, nearly half a million survivors have been displaced from their homes and 295 people have died due to devastating Typhoons Ketsana and Parma. UMCOR Philippines is providing additional emergency relief packets for more than 11,000 affected....Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:44:00 +0100alertnet-9836c0f9c32781ea18c246475de0997a20091027214400http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/10/27/illegal-logging-continues-aceh-despite-moratorium.htmlDeforestation in Aceh has continued to worsen despite the signing of a logging moratorium that prohibits anyone from felling forest trees, a non-governmental organization said. Read MoreTue, 27 Oct 2009 07:11:00 +0100JakartaPost-269c5172dbec38feb92e77d4fd1fbda520091027071100http://kenyalondonnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4240&Itemid=46Priyadi Kardono, spokesperson for the national disaster agency, said about 500 houses had caved in and around 100 people were buried under the rubble, according to officials in the area. The 7.6 magnitude quake hit Padang, West Sumatra, on Wednesday afternoon.Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:50:00 +0100kenyalondonnews-42d481f26abf50a5e7f3aa47f648763620091027065000http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/24/content_12318763.htmA powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia's Maluku province Saturday evening.Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:44:00 +0100xinhuanet_en-cc32517688b46646077c560070d62f6920091026134400