543140 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.startribune.com/world/300145421.htmlATHENS, Greece — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck near the Greek island of Crete late Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake occurred at 9:07 p.m. (1807GMT). No tsunami warning was issued.Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:59:00 +0200startribune-77b9a93fdd9f04ba5dec0f92ca93efb420150417015900http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/british-government-spending-frenzy-international-aid-it-seeks-meet-target-0-7-gdp-1496852Britain is paying professional aid staff up to £1,000 a day to work in developing countries as part of a spending "frenzy" to meet a government target, a new report suggestst. Spending on consultants has doubled in the past four years to £1.4bn with the bill for outside help now eating up more than 10 per cent of the aid budget.Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:54:00 +0200ibtimes-uk-d12d5c68324526d95cc570180ade1b1020150417015400http://www.biobiochile.cl/2015/04/16/reaparece-en-eeuu-barco-con-pasajeros-arrastrado-por-tsunami-de-japon-hace-4-anos.shtmlPublicado por Scarlet Stuardo Un terremoto de magnitud 9.0 en la escala de Richter afectó a Japón en el 2011. Este sismo trajo junto a él un enorme tsunami de 10 metros de altura que arrasó con todo lo que encontró en la costa del país. Entre los anteriores, un barco pesquero que reapareció este jueves.Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:50:00 +0200biobiochile-0532c536a849c7ea1c2b867c0989537b20150417015000http://www.francebleu.fr/infos/alerte-tsunami-la-corse-craint-le-pire-2288635Plus de peur que de mal, c'est le moins que l'on puisse dire, mais sale soirée quand même pour les bastiais et autres riverains des communes voisines. A l'origine de cette situation, une alerte tsunami sur la côte Est de l'ile. Alerte faisant suite à un tremblement de terre en Crète.Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:48:00 +0200francebleu-bdfc0b0d258f1fe8adf8581004ceb3ca20150417014800