400690GDACS 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 Dozens killed as heavy rains hammer Central Americahttp://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/16/world/americas/central-america-floods/index.html?eref=rss_latestDozens of people have been killed in Central America as heavy rains continue to hammer the region.Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:00 +0200cnn-306ca8807a11b8d628d9306f62f5b46920111016224700Floods death toll rises in Central Americahttp://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2011/10/2011101643625132638.htmlStorm-ravaged Guatemala declares "state of calamity", while deaths also reported in Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:28:00 +0200aljazeera-en-2c25c437e77086b2c4e0a7a92a58565520111016082800Storms kill 55 in Mexico, C. Americahttp://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-10/16/c_131194150.htmby Maja Wallengren MEXICO CITY, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in Mexico and Central America climbed to 55 Saturday as torrential rain storms continued, causing deadly mudslides and massive flooding. More than 250,000 people were affected across the region -- 62,700 in Mexico, 118,704 in....Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:26:00 +0200xinhuanet_en-07d27f0145023672501c016942029dfd20111016062600Hurricane Jova to Pound Mexico; Will California or Texas be Hithttp://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/15665b944045da4a/id/200099892/Hurricane Jova is set to hit the west coast Mexican resort town of Barra de Navidad by Tuesday morning. Jova is currently a category three storm, with winds reaching upwards of 125 miles per hour ...Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:02:00 +0200irishsun-79bb8fbeff86cbb98e26d9fee018b3c820111016060200