32860GDACS EMM News Feed 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 Hurricane Irene Path to New York Cityhttp://www.ibtimes.com/articles/203373/20110824/hurricane-irene-path.htmHurricane Irene reached 120 mph as it intensified, ravaging Acklins and Crooked Islands in the southeastern Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center said that Irene is a large and dangerous storm and that it is expected to gain momentum in the next day.Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:23:00 +0200ibtimes-cn-e5777eb9ed741bd077011a4848ffde1a20110824222300Hurricane Irene could be "big threat" to Northeast (Reuters)http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110824/wl_nm/us_storm_ireneReuters - Powerful Hurricane Irene began battering the Bahamas on Wednesday on a track to the North Carolina coast that forecasters say could threaten the densely populated Northeast, including New York, starting Sunday.Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:58:00 +0200news-yahoo-c1f23fc9918cea4c0c4c9dd92bcbf20d20110824205800Hurricane Irene could be "big threat" to Northeasthttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/24/us-storm-irene-idUSTRE77K01820110824?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNewsNASSAU (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Irene began battering the Bahamas on Wednesday on a track to the North Carolina coast that forecasters say could threaten the densely populated Northeast, including New York, starting Sunday.Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:52:00 +0200reuters-405651190e3e10bbc504475138fec27920110824205200Thousands of Evacuated People and Cut off Towns in DRhttp://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317510&Itemid=124 de agosto de 2011, 08:23 Santo Domingo, Aug 24 (Prensa Latina) More than 7,000 people remain evacuated in the Dominican Republic Wednesday, where intense rain was registered and there were settlements isolated, electricity cuts, fallen trees, destroyed houses and floods associated with Hurricane Irene.Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:16:00 +0200prensa-latina-en-f35018588660d5e8c55de7c9a5da1cb520110824151600