6791420 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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100114/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_haiti_earthquakeAP - President Barack Obama and the U.S. moved to take charge in earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Thursday, dispatching thousands of troops along with tons of aid to try to keep order as well as rescue the suffering in a country dysfunctional in the best of times.Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:54:00 +0100news-yahoo-da47b94aab92bf50f2d1f6e3a9e08afd20100114235400http://www.jonesbahamas.com/news/45/ARTICLE/21108/2010-01-14.htmlHaitian authorities fear the death toll will climb in the coming days, with one official claiming that the casualties could top 500,000. The bodies of children were stacked next to schools and corpses lay in the street as aid workers scoured buildings for survivors.Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:51:00 +0100jonesbahamas-67c19235b17514a82e862939dd7bb1d320100114235100http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011402590.html?wprss=rss_world/centralamericaUNITED NATIONS -- Grappling with what appears to be the organization's greatest loss of life in a single incident, United Nations officials said Thursday that 36 U.N. staffers, police and peacekeepers have been confirmed dead and up to 160 remain missing in the rubble of the Haiti earthquake -- but..Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:45:00 +0100WashingtonPost-3d3803261f45947c6ad07e8df7a85a7420100114234500http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1953819,00.html?xid=rss-world&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20time/world%20%28TIME:%20Top%20World%20Stories%29Led by Robin Hood-like figures, the gangs have exploited the country's other crises, often mixing politics with social issues to profit criminallyThu, 14 Jan 2010 23:44:00 +0100time-0aef7485cb9887d703f7eb0e8d67ddd620100114234400