755210 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.manilatimes.net/worst-rain-30-years-heaps-misery-flood-hit-thai-south/305977/BANGKOK: The heaviest rains in 30 years have caused the floods sweeping southern Thailand, the kingdom’s junta leader said Monday, as the army ramped up efforts to reach remote inundated areas. At least 21 people have been killed and nearly one million people affected by the floods after days of....Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:21:00 +0100manilatimes-95a20054e3bd3333594bbe13fbc768ab20170109132100http://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0109/843590-thailand-floods-toll/Twenty-one people have been killed and nearly one million people affected by floods in southern Thailand after days of rain across the country's southern neck. The "severe flooding is because of the worst rainfall in more than 30 years", Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha told reporters.Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:07:00 +0100RTERadio-922c336ba86e5c673fdb906052d9ad0920170109130700http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/worst-rain-in-30-years-heaps-misery-on-flood-hit-thai-southPeople walk in a flooded street at Muang district in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, southern Thailand, January 6, 2017. — Reuters pic BANGKOK, Jan 9 ― The heaviest rains in 30 years have caused the floods sweeping southern Thailand, the kingdom’s junta leader said today, as the army ramped up efforts to reach remote inundated areas.Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:01:00 +0100themalaymailonline-b8923d0d30a4f7f753dc92d2def009a420170109130100http://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/ha-ti-trois-mois-apr-s-l-ouragan-matthew-entre-urgence-et-rel-vementACTED, présente en Haïti auprès des populations les plus vulnérables depuis 2004, est mobilisée depuis le passage de l’ouragan Matthew sur le Sud et la Grand’Anse le 4 octobre 2016 pour fournir une aide humanitaire d’urgence aux populations touchées par la catastrophe.Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:59:00 +0100reliefWeb-c9112f69ed2f7044beb63243ad873cdf20170109125900