17750 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.stuff.co.nz/national/300174558/i-felt-like-i-was-in-a-different-world-the-medics-and-military-behind-the-whakaariwhite-island-rescue-and-recoveryMy role on Whakaari was part of the eight-strong team that conducted the victim recovery, and successfully got six people off the island. Three of the team were corps medics. We have a lot of training on ambulances, and in emergency departments, and ICUs. We go to critical incidents where sometimes people die, so we have exposure to that.Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:09:00 +0100Stuff-d37192968992176b2b1f06f4cb56914620201205170900https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6012071/mag6quake-Dec-5-2020-Turkey.htmlThe German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 6.1 quake in Turkey near Alanya, Antalya, only 6 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early afternoon on Saturday 5 December 2020 at 2.44 pm local time at a moderately shallow depth of 69 km.Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:16:00 +0100volcanodiscovery-e01887c9291667a2ad1b72f298bd587a20201205141600https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/6012036/mag4quake-Dec-5-2020-KEPULAUAN-BABAR-INDONESIA.htmlNearby towns and cities: 286 km (178 mi) ENE of Lospalos (Timor-Leste) (pop: 17,200) 339 km (211 mi) ENE of Baucau (Timor-Leste) (pop: 16,000) 425 km (264 mi) WSW of Tual (pop: 39,500) 427 km (265 mi) SSE of Ambon City (pop: 355,600) 434 km (269 mi) ENE of Dili (Timor-Leste) (pop: 150,000) 449 km....Sat, 05 Dec 2020 12:45:00 +0100volcanodiscovery-0630ec0466c67aed793788a6d9f122f620201205124500https://mia.mk/today-in-history-266/?lang=en5 December 2019 (MIA) North Macedonia. 2011 – The Hague-based International Court of Justice rules that Greece had violated Article 11 of the Interim Treaty over Macedonia’s NATO accession at the 2008 Bucharest Summit. ICJ rulings are final and binding for UN member-states, i.e., parties in the dispute.Sat, 05 Dec 2020 10:20:00 +0100mia-mk-699ca5f79be732cd9d4a5022e4de95f120201205102000