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.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/your-weather/8803881/Flooding-closes-Chch-school-roads A Christchurch family has had more than 300 litres of water seep through the roof of their earthquake-damaged home. Tracey McKeefry emptied a 100L bin at 10pm last night, and woke this morning to find it overflowing and "water pooling" on the kitchen floor of her Woodgrove Ave home in North New Brighton. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:44:00 +0200 fishing-co en fishing-co-2d91439a9a224891e222b80272b6f3c2 NaturalDisasters -43.5235 172.638 20130617024400 http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130606-insurers-face-minimum-4-billion-payout-from-may-u-s-storm-damage 6/6/13 Disaster insurance Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Impact Forecasting , the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, yesterday releases the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during May 2013. Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:21:00 +0200 homelandsecuritynewswire en homelandsecuritynewswire-d9a28c8b4b77491ff39bcee53089c10c FoodSecurityFoodAid NaturalDisasters 20130607092100