710 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.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=440241New diplomat. Vanuatu has appointed John Licht as its new ambassador to the European Union and Belgium. Mr Licht officially signed his contract at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, according to the Daily Post. Bar licence. A Samoan MP and bar owner Olo Fiti Va'ai is suing the Liquor Board....Mon, 02 Apr 2018 01:55:00 +0200fijitimes-97f813cd5a44fe91ff160910923bb0d120180402015500http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/emergency/large-quake-strikes-near-vanuatu/A 7.6-magnitude earthquake has struck about 535km southeast of the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. The shallow quake was measured at a depth of about 10km. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has issued a warning for areas close to the quake, although there was no Pacific-wide threat of a tsunami. Alexandra 95.Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:51:00 +0100newstalkzb-ec0c00f99775928ed5eb87b0cb461c7e20180322225100http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=438601Update: 5:31PM A 5.3 MAGNITUDE earthquake occurred in the Vanuatu region this afternoon. The seismology Unit of the Department of Mineral Resources reported that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 110km at 2:36pm. It was registered at 247km North Northwest from Port Vila, Vanuatu; 745km North....Mon, 19 Mar 2018 06:55:00 +0100fijitimes-1d465d9e97f1d3b80c763d0b75539f6c20180319065500http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=438124Update: 6:03PM A 5.0 MAGNITUDE earthquake occurred in the Vanuatu region this afternoon. The Seismology Unit of the Department of Mineral Resources in Suva reported that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km at 4:51pm today. It was registered at 210km North from Luganville, Vanuatu; 474km North....Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:25:00 +0100fijitimes-16022c0b6f282c95a40405d9ea90bd8220180315072500