7912 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.miragenews.com/us-defense-sec-austin-calls-philippine-1143366/Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro Jr. spoke by phone today. The Secretaries discussed coercive and unlawful actions by the People's Republic of China in the South China Sea over the weekend, including the unprovoked use of acoustic....2023-12-13T21:50+0100miragenews-619bb7c750a05b81c11195ed02a31cc320231213215000https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3616858/readout-of-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iiis-call-with-philippine-secret/Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided the following readout: Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro Jr. spoke by phone today. The Secretaries discussed coercive and unlawful actions by the People's Republic of China in....2023-12-13T21:45+0100defense-79994a89976bcde611a384514276d58720231213214500https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/quake-info/8731042/mag4quake-Dec-13-2023-Philippines-081-km-N-69-E-of-Cortes-Surigao-Del-Sur.htmlSeismic station: Davao, Philippines (DAV/IU network) | Distance from quake: 310 km / 192 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive some time later, depending on distance. Bandpass filter applied: 0.2023-12-13T21:02+0100volcanodiscovery-e341ac10dba16d44082fbbfec4754ceb20231213210200https://www.philstar.com/nation/2023/12/14/2318637/magnitude-51-quake-jolts-surigao-del-sur-anewMANILA, Philippines A magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Surigao del Sur on Tuesday night, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. Phivolcs said the temblor was an aftershock of the magnitude-7.4 earthquake that jolted the province on Dec. 2. The epicenter of the quake, which occurred at 9:58 p.2023-12-13T17:37+0100philstar-ec5fe4001b7035ec53c91e005e4111eb20231213173700