31150 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 https://www.msf.org/catastrophic-floods-cause-mass-displacement-and-escalate-humanitarian-crisis-south-sudanA small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile river. Upon it sits a family of eight people – the youngest just a baby. On this small raft is everything they own: some clothes, and a few pots to cook with, which are mostly filled with waterlilies they pluck from the water.2022-12-20T01:05+0100msf-org-dfc98fb95338eabc698b91a1b630bbe920221220010500https://www.rural21.com/english/news/detail/article/people-suffer-as-rivers-rage-and-recede-amid-deepening-climate-crisis.htmlAs they worked in their mustard farm in Sail, a beautiful hamlet in southern Kashmir in the Indian Himalayas, Zahid Iqbal, a young farmer and his wife hoped that their farm wouldn’t get inundated by floods again. “We lost the previous crop to flooding,” said 36-year-old Iqbal.2022-12-19T20:52+0100rural21-en-84e60bdd2f34682cf101050cc6b99edd20221219205200https://allafrica.com/stories/202212190603.htmlA small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile river, on it sits a family of eight people - the youngest just a baby. On this small raft is everything they own: some clothes, and a few pots to cook with, which are mostly filled with waterlilies they pluck from the water.2022-12-19T20:45+0100allafrica-e0a70a5ce44188bd62f0513a8d889aa820221219204500https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/19/christmas-presents-ruined-evri-amazon-dump-gifts-heavy-rain/Christmas presents have been ruined in the heavy rain after delivery firms dumped gifts outside homes. Disgruntled shoppers have complained that their parcels were "absolutely obliterated" after drivers left them outside as the cold snap thawed , bringing heavy rainfall across the country.2022-12-19T19:50+0100telegraph-fe10b5b81011c24b9c0c804ac807019f20221219195000