16260 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://mia.mk/today-in-history-141/?lang=en2 August 2020 (MIA) 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean. 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a....Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:53:00 +0200mia-mk-1e7ad70cf0880c5ff86e73c0984ad5ad20200802095300https://www.infobae.com/tendencias/2020/08/02/como-proceder-antes-durante-y-despues-de-un-terremoto/Con frecuencia se registran movimientos telúricos fuertes que ponen en alerta a la población en toda Sudamérica y en el mundo entero. Incluso, muchos de los países de la región están ubicados en el llamado Cinturón de Fuego: las costas del Pacífico propensas a sismos.Sun, 02 Aug 2020 07:33:00 +0200infobae-05d7a163e3364ee04d58c04ebc56fe2d20200802073300https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2020/08/02/mil-osi-china-6-4-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-southern-philippines/An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 shook Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines early on Sunday, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said. The institute said the quake, which struck at 1:08 a.m. local time, hit at a depth of 543 kilometers, about 13 kilometers southeast of Cotabato City.Sun, 02 Aug 2020 05:17:00 +0200foreignaffairs-nz-7500c92a58be23de638dd482bf9366ce20200802051700https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/13/8/166The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spread globally from its outbreak in China in early 2020, negatively affecting economies and industries on a global scale. In line with historic crises and shock events including the 2002-04 SARS outbreak, the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and 2017 Hurricane....Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:26:00 +0200mdpi-e1b1f8b73ced0cf7fbf30c21954e1c8420200730132600