21420 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.smh.com.au/national/the-case-for-uniform-disaster-law-20150904-gjfad2.htmlThere were the high heels sent to Samoa after Cyclone Evan in 2012, the shipment of bathtubs clogging up Tonga Customs after Cyclone Ian last year and the beef masala donated to the Hindu country of Nepal after the devastating earthquake in April. Sending inappropriate, unnecessary aid to a country....Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:42:00 +0200smh-280920dc7a01b1a64e8541d5e8367b3d20150914164200http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/942404.shtmlThe operator of Japan's Fukushima on Monday began releasing previously radioactive groundwater from the crippled nuclear plant into the sea, saying a filtration process had made the discharge safe. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), which operates the plant in eastern Japan, said that on the first day....Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:36:00 +0200globaltimes-44887b6760d4a472be14f098d2349b9a20150914163600http://www.giornalettismo.com/archives/1890632/10-citta-pericolose-mondo-per-catastrofi-naturali/Città più pericolose al mondo, quali sono le megalopoli con le più elevate probabilità di disastri naturali? Un geologo tedesco le ha elencate per Bild Zeitung . Ecco quali sono le dieci città più pericolo del mondo per le possibilità di eventi catastrofici quali terremoti, Tsunami e altri disastri causati dalla natura.Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:22:00 +0200giornalettismo-dc550f255db702db13bc30275762031f20150914162200http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/fukushima-dumps-first-batch-of-once-radioactive-water-in-sea/articleshow/48958559.cmsToday was the first time the plant, whose reactors went into meltdown after being hit by a huge tsunami in 2011, has released once radioactive water. ET SPECIAL: Love visual aspect of news? Enjoy this exclusive slideshows treat! TOKYO: Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant today began releasing....Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:13:00 +0200economictimes-8821a41e9ffe09ea7dd6fed99943db6120150914161300