5530 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://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/The-Electronic-Rumor-Mill-101317994.htmlCall it gossip, or scuttlebutt. Call it "the grapevine," "the telegraph," or "the buzz" - it's all the same. It's rumor, and thanks to the Internet, it can spread around the world faster and farther than ever. Witness the latest rumor making the rounds in the United States - that President Obama is Muslim.Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:13:00 +0200voanews-05063d7089a558234e9790e25e1586ca20100825191300http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=90280BANGKOK, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) - In Asia, the most disaster-prone part of the world, earthquakes are the deadliest natural hazard. Seven of the 10 most earthquake-vulnerable countries in terms of human exposure - China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran - are in the region,....Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:05:00 +0200irinnews-7253f9e48fe6620b0a0758ea1618b67820100825140500http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2010/08/mil-100824-afps01.htmMissions Show U.S. Commitment in Pacific, Latin America By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2010 As the U.S. military conducts disaster response operations in flood-stricken Pakistan, it’s also engaged in major humanitarian and civic assistance missions in the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:56:00 +0200globalsecurity-f842c4d31098e24fc68058c82787589920100825025600http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2010/08/mil-100824-afps01.htmAs the U.S. military conducts disaster response operations in flood-stricken Pakistan, it’s also engaged in major humanitarian and civic assistance missions in the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean.Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:36:00 +0200globalsecurity-3e3a5a71ef01aab2ed3b2955540f8c0d20100824213600