15121240 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.dailyjournal.net/2016/08/24/us-missing-ship/JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The captain of the doomed freighter El Faro ordered his crew to abandon ship about 10 hours after leaving a Florida port and becoming caught in a hurricane last year, audio from the sunken ship’s “black box” shows. The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday it....Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:41:00 +0200dailyjournal-2cab4d39793eb1f6142dff5bc9efc93420160824234100http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/louisiana-flood-relief-race-against-the-clock-to-save-animal-survivors-300317951.htmlLIVINGSTON PARISH, La. Aug. 24, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With as many as 70,000 homes damaged or destroyed in the catastrophic floods, animal rescuers are racing against time to save animal flood victims and working to reunite pets with their families.Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:39:00 +0200prnewswire-0f2916d2be2f0fd993665b64aacae98a20160824233900https://www.yahoo.com/news/bridge-tape-records-final-minutes-wrecked-el-faro-210503738.html?ref=gsWashington (AFP) - The captain of US container ship El Faro gave an abandon-ship order just minutes before she sank in a hurricane off the Bahamas with the loss of all 33 people on board. A recording made on the bridge on the morning of October 1, 2015, cuts out 10 minutes after the evacuation....Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:34:00 +0200news-yahoo-56bb3d1d063706a08d2b41af77e16f6720160824233400http://www.tampabay.com/news/weather/hurricanes/as-tropics-heat-up-you-might-wonder-what-the-heck-is-an-invest99l/2290824Before they're worthy of names like Andrew and Katrina, before they become numbered tropical depressions, the blobs of wind and rain that might one day become hurricanes are branded with a designation that sounds more like a mutual fund than meteorology.Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:30:00 +0200tampabay-b48ac77bb35395438a91b8ad09c01f1220160824233000