12110 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.ipsnews.net/2012/10/women-hit-hard-by-natural-disasters/In the aftermath of a natural disaster, women are often the most vulnerable. Particularly in rural areas, women suffer disproportionately from inadequate shelter and poor sanitation facilities and are often tasked with rebuilding shattered homes. The theme for this year’s international day of....Sat, 13 Oct 2012 20:43:00 +0200ipsnews-6e25d70b1eb47236719a8a185c5d5ad620121013204300http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121014a1.htmlTokyo Electric Power Co. has acknowledged for the first time that the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant could have been avoided. In a statement Friday, Tepco's internal reform task force said the utility was aware safety improvements were necessary long before last year's quake and....Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:23:00 +0200japantimes-b1f3c826e6fed1be7b2153cf7c32ed4820121013192300http://allafrica.com/stories/201210130443.html[Liberia Govt]Tokyo -President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Friday, October 12, called on the Japanese Emperor at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. According to Japan's traditional order of succession, Akihito, the reigning Emperor of Japan, is the 125th Emperor of his line. He became Emperor in 1989.Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:09:00 +0200allafrica-45741bf505e7231c7bd7a50ce05f77d520121013190900http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/rc20121014a4.htmlRegarding the front-page Oct. 8 article "Fukushima 50" workers as saying, "The (power generators) were knocked out by water from the tsunami. I thought it was all over." The reporter then adds that "the workers successfully shut down all of the reactors and averted a catastrophic nuclear chain reaction.Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:52:00 +0200japantimes-f2527a6a43bbea706c910b996e10713c20121013175200