1010 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.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/186958421.htmlIn the wake of Haiti's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake exactly three years ago, former U.S. President Bill Clinton issued an unusual and now infamous apology. Calling his subsidies to American rice farmers in the 1990s a mistake because it undercut rice production in Haiti, Clinton said he had....Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:32:00 +0100antiguanews-975b2c2f858fbd8a85f25055a44f437120130115223200http://reliefweb.int/map/philippines/asia-pacific-region-1-7-january-2013-natural-disasters-and-other-events-beingSource: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Malaysia, Philippines (the), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand Philippines - TC Bopha (Pablo) struck the southern Philippines about 5 weeks ago. On 3 Jan, the death toll stands at 1,067 with a further 848 people reported missing.Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:34:00 +0100reliefWeb-13a3a0e010fcdb939b7a72bb8f54513720130107123400http://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/between-drought-and-floods-%E2%80%93-year-extremes-sri-lankaSource: Inter Press Service Country: Sri Lanka By Amantha Perera UDAWALAWE, Sri Lanka, Dec 30 2012 (IPS) - Wild elephants are usually the primary attraction in the remote shrub jungles of Udawalawe, about 180 kilometres southeast of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo.Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:55:00 +0100reliefWeb-aa110d818e72560f802408b1ec4811a320121231065500http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/between-drought-and-floods-a-year-of-extremes-in-sri-lanka/Wild elephants are usually the primary attraction in the remote shrub jungles of Udawalawe, about 180 kilometres southeast of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. But this Christmas season, the massive Udawalawe dam stole the limelight from the lumbering beasts.Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:42:00 +0100ipsnews-4c46c7286ca61f9205bd02cfea3f256b20121230154200