434390 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/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/syria/131204/bashar-assad-remain-power-despite-geneva-ii-peace-talRebel fighters fortify a barricade with destroyed buses in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, December 4, 2013. Nearly 126,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, according to the Observatory, and the UN human rights chief said on December 2, that there....Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:02:00 +0100globalpost-cd5cd63d4de0df822a2a48272f225c0a20131205030200http://www.islandsbusiness.com/news/japan/3885/japan-palau-to-cooperate-for-2015-pacific-islands-/TOKYO, Japan --- Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has met with Palau President Tommy Remengesau Tuesday, with the two leaders agreeing to cooperate in successfully holding a summit of small Pacific island nations in 2015 in Japan. “I want to deepen our cooperation” toward a successful meeting of....Thu, 05 Dec 2013 02:32:00 +0100pidp-91d86ae1123c1230d1a94cc661e4b03b20131205023200http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2518431/From-Tinseltown-tsunami-zone-Moving-seen-images-Paul-Walkers-inspirational-charity-work.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490The Fast & Furious star can be seen in fields as far flung as Haiti and Chile working for the charity he set up, Reach Out Worldwide, most recently secretly plowing money into the tornado-struck Philippines.Thu, 05 Dec 2013 01:56:00 +0100dailymail-50e1d20780d6af1f4012c3f40d4fce4920131205015600http://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/situation-report-17-super-typhoon-haiyan-dec-04-2013Source: Church World Service Country: Philippines STORY FROM AMELYN, A VOLUNTEER FROM DULAG Amelyn Gutierrez is a 29 years-old woman, living in Dulag. She is a typhoon survivor staying at the barangay’s captain house with her family. She considered herself as lucky despite the fact she lost everything.Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:45:00 +0100reliefWeb-5030fc337847bf5fe737a0a71f63895f20131204234500