4300 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.newsweek.com/2010/07/15/we-are-on-track.htmlThirteen days before Sebastián Piñera began his four-year term as Chilean president in March, the country suffered one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history. The Harvard economist talks about the earthquake, the economy, and the U.S. Chile - United States - Sebastián Piñera -....Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:08:00 +0200msnbc-752c8bc440b62149dc6117cfbe285a2820100716140800http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7d70daf8-8a1e-11df-bd30-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d70daf8-8a1e-11df-bd30-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer=Earthquakes in Haiti and Chile contributed to record losses for insurers against natural catastrophes of $22bn in the first half of the year, well above the past decade’s average, Munich Re said on Wednesday. Insured losses exceeded the amount in 2008, when the last previous record was set.Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:32:00 +0200ft-4a1a755ad589b59ecc11adc56f01475e20100715213200http://www.pr-inside.com/eqecat-to-release-first-basin-wide-asia-r2005213.htmCatastrophe risk modeling firm : http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eqecat.com&esheet=6361271&lan=en-US&anchor=Catastrophe+risk+modeling+firm&index=1&md5=619ca8d6a6c1c00bbd802c8e67a07a15 EQECAT, Inc., announced it will release the first basin-wide Asia typhoon model....Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:07:00 +0200pr-inside-b25ddbd1a0245e5995e19d3c0e2f2cc620100715180700http://7thspace.com/headlines/350672/recent_earthquakes_and_volcanic_eruptions_have_people_taking_a_closer_look_at_whether_to_buy_travel_insurance.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%207thspace%20%287thSpace%20Interactive%29Recent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have people taking a closer look at whether to buy travel insurance (http://www.squaremouth.com). But travelers should be extra cautious now because situations they might assume are covered, may not be, warns ...Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:02:00 +02007thspace-448fef5421023cd73159685f9dd0bda920100715160200