9591810GDACS 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 Over half a million children affected by Haiti earthquakehttps://www.unicef.org/press-releases/over-half-million-children-affected-haiti-earthquakeDownload photos and multimedia, here PORT-AU-PRINCE / PANAMA CITY, 17 August 2021 – UNICEF estimates that about 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, have been affected by the powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on Saturday. The hardest hit departments of South, Nippes and Grand’Anse are....2021-08-17T16:00+0200unicef-8dc73690083004c329422d6869c6091d20210817160000Tropical Storm Grace forecast to stay south of U.S.https://www.al.com/hurricane/2021/08/tropical-storm-grace-on-path-for-gulf-but-will-stay-south-of-us.htmlTropical Storm Grace got a little stronger on Tuesday as it neared Jamaica. Next was Tropical Storm Henri, which is expected to move near Bermuda today. And then there’s Fred, which made landfall on the Florida Panhandle as a tropical storm on Monday and has been downgraded to a tropical depression....2021-08-17T15:47+0200al-e23a4f3e09ba87e841f99d11653d51e020210817154700Community Help for Haiti Peter Burke 8:43 AM, Aug 17, 2021https://www.wptv.com/community/help-haitiThe devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti has crippled an already struggling country, killing almost 1,300 people and leaving thousands more displaced from their destroyed or damaged homes. With strong Haitian ties throughout South Florida, many area organizations are doing what they can to provide help for the Caribbean country.2021-08-17T15:42+0200wptv-bb8e82f069c59201e60fba2969bd1e0e20210817154200Over half million children affected by Haiti earthquakehttps://www.miragenews.com/over-half-million-children-affected-by-haiti-615069/UNICEF/UN0502973/Harry Rouzier Children oversee an excavation in the city of Les Cayes, Haiti on 15 August 2021, following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck on 14 August 2021. Download photos and multimedia, here PORT-AU-PRINCE / PANAMA CITY, 17 August 2021 – UNICEF estimates that about 1.2021-08-17T15:41+0200miragenews-2542d19ad8e988e43477240708f97d9920210817154100