18510 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.jamaicaobserver.com/history/history_203291?profile=1470Today is the day of 2020. There are days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT. 1994: A federal court jury in Anchorage, Alaska, orders Exxon Corp to pay US$5 billion in punitive damages to Alaskan fishermen and natives for the March 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. OTHER EVENTS.Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:33:00 +0200jamaicaobserver-ea6487257b71b3e6f92fd07b248c9b6320200916093300https://www.explica.co/belt-of-fire-the-place-where-most-earthquakes-are-born-in-the-world/The Belt of Fire is a long tectonic chain of approximately 40 thousand kilometers that runs below the coasts of America, Asia and the Pacific Ocean. This region has some of the subduction zones (where one tectonic plate sinks under another) Most important in the world and its formation is a direct....Wed, 16 Sep 2020 05:00:00 +0200explica-ab84917e5161a3e26faaa0696f1ac73020200916050000https://www.alliancemagazine.org/news/appc-responding-more-effectively-to-disasters/By the time this column is printed, the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, in collaboration with Charities Aid Foundation, will have held its international conference on ‘Philanthropy in Disasters: Tsunami and After’ (28-30 November in Phuket, Thailand).Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:41:00 +0200alliancemagazine-7995d5682606d5127eba7a4e9f845e5d20200915194100https://www.bernama.com/en/world/news.php?id=1879425KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 -- A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale hit north Sumatra in Indonesia at 2.28 am today. The Malaysian Meteorology Department (MET), in a statement, said the quake occurred about 75 kilometres east of Meulaboh, Indonesia, at a depth of 120 kilometres.Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:45:00 +0200bernama-5881a07357758ec0d794cd21dd3c2b4f20200914034500