20830 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://allafrica.com/stories/201411271341.htmlThe strongest recorded storm to ever hit land slammed into the Philippines at 195 miles per hour just over a year ago, on 8 November 2013. As a recent Guardian photo essay shows , the communities on the islands are now beginning to rebuild. One of the problems in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan was the failure of mobile phone networks.Mon, 01 Dec 2014 03:04:00 +0100allafrica-2b45fe7f60d27a31a897281690131f9920141201030400http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/12/324994.htmlPrime Minister Shinzo Abe touts his "Abenomics" economic policy package as putting Japan on a path to a long-sought exit from deflation, and is now seeking a fresh electoral mandate to stay the course. But more than three and a half years since the 2011 major earthquake and tsunami wreaked havoc on....Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:45:00 +0100kyodonews-5896b87ede97958ee2abdc543a1845d020141201024500http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/european-research-council-the-all-too-real-search-for-an-invisibility-cloak-9894507.htmlThe art deco splendour of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels will provide the suitably grand setting for the researchers, who have all received millions of euros in funding from the European Research Council, to reveal their progress towards scientific breakthroughs once thought impossible.Mon, 01 Dec 2014 01:36:00 +0100independent-a673069454956eedda2c6848a217df6e20141201013600http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30194460#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-saWhere were you on 26 December 2004, the day a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia triggered a deadly tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people? Ten years on from the disaster, the BBC is asking for your memories of what happened that day, and during the aftermath.Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:06:00 +0100bbc-bd651c98c8fac1aec8d87cd05769704920141130230600