16060 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.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/1/anger-grows-in-haiti-as-new-leader-stumbles/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI Haitian President Michel Martelly has styled himself as a man of the people, a showy former pop star who waded easily into adoring crowds. So the reception he received on a recent trip to his country's north was a surprise: Protesters pelted his entourage with soft-drink bottles .Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:07:00 +0200washtimes-e330c8455f5d0abfa55dcb7d4d215f3420110801230700http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=113702&sid=33240499&con_type=3The Red Cross Society of China's attempt to be transparent in the wake of the Guo Meimei scandal has backfired after microbloggers expressed outrage and disbelief at the list of donors who gave a total of 2.38 billion yuan (HK$2.88 billion) to last year's Yushu earthquake relief effort.Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:53:00 +0200thestandard-hk-a298079969fbc240045dd4168eb4a44320110801225300http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/01/us.record.drought/index.html?eref=rss_latestExceptional drought conditions spread across nearly 12% of the United States last month, a record number that shows the widespread impact of the dry weather conditions, according to a report released Monday.Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:51:00 +0200cnn-c906b28c80f0942654c579c1af9a2d7020110801185100http://dalje.com/en-world/oil-workers-return-to-gulf-of-mexico/374273HOUSTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. oil and gas explorer Apache Corp. announced that workers evacuated from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of a tropical storm have returned. Apache said 368 workers were evacuated ahead of the storm. Production of more than 15 million...Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:48:00 +0200javno-en-f5b309ebbe69d4df0ea496b06dd4a74920110801154800