425140GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Half of Americans live in quake-prone areashttp://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-2-347966-Half-of-Americans-live-in-quake-prone-areasLAHORE: Let alone the most earthquake-prone countries like Pakistan, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, China, Japan and Nepal etc, even nearly half of Americans live in areas where Earth can be jolted by tremors and that a quake with a magnitude as high as 9.Wed, 28 Oct 2015 03:29:00 +0100thenews-pk-ff36378082f5f1a5314e13b8864a992620151028032900UN Report Sees Asia Pacific As World's Most Disaster Prone Regionhttp://www.bernama.com/bernama/v8/wn/newsworld.php?id=1184100UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28 (Bernaa) -- The Asia Pacific is the world's most disaster prone region and needs regional cooperation to address cross boundary disasters, China's Xinhua news agency reported a UN expert as saying here Tuesday. "Asia (has) particularly high vulnerability to multiple hazards....Wed, 28 Oct 2015 03:05:00 +0100bernama-10c274318c677c2cb5be3ee90af4fac720151028030500UN report sees Asia Pacific as world's most disaster prone regionhttp://english.sina.com/2015/1027/859651.htmlby Lyndal Rowlands. UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Asia Pacific is the world's most disaster prone region and needs regional cooperation to address cross boundary disasters, said a UN expert here Tuesday. "Asia (has) particularly high vulnerability to multiple hazards not least because of....Wed, 28 Oct 2015 01:03:00 +0100sinacom-32ac110dae3e85e7e67aa717dd3111a420151028010300Campaigners warn that a 'tsunami of cheap sugar' is heading to Europehttp://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/sugar-tax-would-not-be-enough-to-curb-consumption-due-to-falling-prices-study-warns-a6710966.htmlAttempts to curb the consumption of sugar are threatened by a surge in production driven by falling prices, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. Campaigners said that the research showed that a “tsunami of cheap sugar” was about to hit Europe.Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:22:00 +0100independent-UK-e4f9bf125e21e0e4ce9e59f538031c6520151028002200