496440 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://gulfnews.com/business/markets/marafiq-signs-pacts-for-two-projects-in-jubail-1.1081822?utm_content=1.1081822&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Feeds&utm_campaign=%3c%21%5bCDATA%5bMarafiq_signs_pacts_for_two_projects_in_Jubail%5d%5d%3e&localLinksEnabled=false&utm_term=%3c%21%5bCDATA%5bBusiness_RSS_feed%5d%5d%3eSaudi Arabia’s state-owned Power and Water Utility Co. for Jubail and Yanbu, or Marafiq, said it has signed contracts for two projects in Jubail industrial City that involve setting up a water desalination station and building 249 residential units for its employees, pan-Arab daily Asharq Al Awsat reports Thursday.Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:10:00 +0200gulfnews-8eb7b0279f0590c715b63f664ee81e5120120927151000http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other-world/quakes-point-to-new-tectonic-plate-1.1081820?utm_content=1.1081820&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Feeds&utm_campaign=%3c%21%5bCDATA%5bQuakes_point_to_new_tectonic_plate%5d%5d%3e&localLinksEnabled=false&utm_term=%3c%21%5bCDATA%5bNews_RSS_feed%5d%5d%3e“This is a process that probably started eight to 10 million years ago, so you can imagine how much longer it will take until we get a classic boundary,” said Matthias Delescluse from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. It is friction at their boundary - the sticking and unsticking, and the....Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:10:00 +0200gulfnews-996a270392c6a2258dc156548c0f1be220120927151000http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/09/113_121086.htmlBy Kim Young-jin Disputes in Northeast Asia over islets and rocks have put relations in a tense holding pattern. The rising tension has revealed the political significance of the geographical features, despite their small size. Analysts said Thursday that spats among Korea, China and Japan....Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:28:00 +0200koreatimes-a191346316d0d6db48fd1917dc17526120120927142800http://www.abc.es/20120927/ciencia/abci-expertos-temen-monstruosos-terremotos-201209271342.htmlLa placa tectónica bajo el océano Índico está dividiéndose en dos, un fenómeno que provocará nuevos terremotos como los registrados en Sumatra en abril, que alcanzaron los 8,7 y 8,2 grados en la escala de Richter, informó ayer la revista científica «Nature».Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:15:00 +0200abc-bd161323f38c35be83afd71cd1a6737620120927141500