63270 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.topix.com/topstories/tropical-stormABC - A tropical storm nearing the Philippines on Friday may strengthen into a typhoon, bringing moderate to heavy rains and blustery weather on Christmas Day, the biggest holiday in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation. Tropical Storm Nock-Ten was 790 kilometers east of Guiuan town in the....Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:10:00 +0100topix-0f07f5b259ee40021c6abab9f3d924e820161224171000http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-12/24/c_135930227.htmMANILA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Philippine disaster officials on Saturday ordered people living in coastal villages south of Manila to move to safer places as Typhoon Nock-ten is approaching the country. Speaking for the national disaster agency, Mina Marasigan told reporters that evacuation has got....Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:07:00 +0100xinhuanet_en-4afef5cf554933e8a71d13f5b1e2f94420161224170700http://elcomercio.pe/mundo/asia/filipinas-evacuan-miles-llegada-tifon-nock-ten-noticia-1955837Las autoridades filipinas pidieron a cientos de miles de habitantes del archipiélago que desalojen sus casas por temor a la llegada de un tifón el día de Navidad. La tormenta Nock-Ten podría llegar acompañado de vientos de hasta 222 km/h cuando toque tierra el domingo en la isla de Catanduanes, en la que residen 250.Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:07:00 +0100ElComercio-a8c0a474a20e116fbc20e97e74049c4e20161224170700http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/landlady-gwynedd-pub-devastated-flooding-12340323The landlady of a pub forced to close for five months after flash floods caused more than 170,000 worth of damage says she still has panic attacks over the incident. The Union Inn pub , was hit by a “tsunami” of water in December 2015 after after days of torrential rain.Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:04:00 +0100dailypost-co-uk-472acb22d9e1b970590cda20c64ea92820161224170400