1714110 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.globalpost.com/globalpost-blogs/southeast-asia/philippines-rebel-truce-bophaThere is little to celebrate about a horrific typhoon that has took the lives of nearly 650 Filipinos and ruined more than $200 million worth of crops. The storm, known as Bopha, has devastated the Philippines in a year already stricken with destructive monsoons.Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:46:00 +0100globalpost-29ae3f8cb06508ef0ed7511b367f298320121211074600http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/12/10/Strong-quake-strikes-off-eastern-Indonesia/UPI-70211355201495/JAKARTA, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- A 7.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in the Banda Sea off eastern Indonesia early Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but no tsunami alert was issued.Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:49:00 +0100upi-2816807d393c4f61247d337cdd9b136520121211064900http://www.br.de/nachrichten/oberbayern/freisinger-navis-zurueck-100.htmlDas Team der Hilfsorganisation "Navis", das seit Mitte November im Osten Afrikas unterwegs war, um hungernden Menschen zu helfen, ist zurück in der Heimat im Landkreis Freising. Die Sternstunden des BR fördern die "Navis".Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:41:00 +0100br-online-6c3c534ca8568c2a467d2b2772d2305920121211064100http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/1242160/1/.htmlTOKYO: Shares in Japanese power companies plunged Tuesday after a panel of experts said one of the nation's nuclear plants may sit over an active seismic fault, raising fears it would have to be scrapped.Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:39:00 +0100channelnewsasia-08927b15af8c4903b8c5d6957ae08fa920121211063900