10610 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 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/26/sambuca-sicily-houses-one-euro-foreign-buyersDarkness falls on the small town of Sambuca di Sicilia, where the council offices on Corso Umberto have been closed for more than three hours. And yet the phones keep ringing, hour after hour. “They’re calling from Sydney, London, New York,” says the exhausted deputy mayor, Giuseppe Cacioppo.Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:24:00 +0100observer-6854b3d3d47ee812d579f8e56d1ddf1a20190127012400https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/26/sambuca-sicily-houses-one-euro-foreign-buyersDarkness falls on the small town of Sambuca di Sicilia, where the council offices on Corso Umberto have been closed for more than three hours. And yet the phones keep ringing, hour after hour. “They’re calling from Sydney, London, New York,” says the exhausted deputy mayor, Giuseppe Cacioppo.Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:27:00 +0100guardian-6854b3d3d47ee812d579f8e56d1ddf1a20190126152700https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/world/middleeast/syria-prisoner-majd-kamalmaz.html?partner=rss&emc=rssBEIRUT — Since disappearing in Syria nearly two years ago, an American therapist has missed the birth of one grandchild, then another. His family in the United States does not know where he is, who is holding him, whether he has the diabetes medication he needs or even whether he is still alive.Thu, 24 Jan 2019 23:30:00 +0100nytimes-8f2ec403193244b8fe09673ee0fc432c20190124233000https://santiagotimes.cl/2019/01/20/6-7-strong-earthquake-shakes-north-central-chile/SANTIAGO – A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit north-central Chile on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck at a depth of 53 kilometers (32 miles) with an epicenter some 15 kilometers southwest of Coquimbo, USGS said. Two people died from heart attacks and as many as 200,000 were left without power.Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:58:00 +0100santiagotimes-7279c08925b1bb13f6546ca6818a4fc320190124195800