107100 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://article.wn.com/view/2010/03/18/Expanding_lake_threatens_thousands_in_Pakistan_w/?section=TopStoriesWorldwide&template=worldnews%2Findex.txtATTABAD, Pakistan-The water is rising day by day in this remote part of northern , and with it, so is the fear among thousands who stand to lose their crops , their homes and maybe even their lives. A massive landslide early this year formed a natural dam in the Hunza River, creating a lake that is consuming upstream villages as it expands.Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:20:00 +0100antiguanews-ac79cbd25989899b626dea34b17aab7e20100318222000http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=112899No country can afford to ignore the lessons of the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti. We cannot stop such disasters from happening. But we can dramatically reduce their impact, if the right disaster-risk reduction measures are taken in advance. A week ago I visited Chile's quake zone and saw how....Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:55:00 +0100LBdailystar-e33fefca72bcbc9ab65b9ec680d0658a20100318215500http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50710UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (IPS) - Bad water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, declares Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:12:00 +0100ipsnews-d5bb8f5c377c45df380e506020a0e75f20100318191200http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/disasters-abroad-give-boost-to-canadas-pulp-makers/article1503785/Earthquake in Chile, strike in Finland have squeezed global supply of pulp, driving up prices and benefiting Canadian producersThu, 18 Mar 2010 01:29:00 +0100theglobeandmail-b5b79daf9286aaabaa4c9fb0b907566d20100318012900