State of emergency

The president’s office announced Tuesday that Sri Lanka will not extend a state of emergency imposed to quell anti-government rallies since the situation in the poor country has “settled.” Four days after his predecessor left the...

Ranil Wickremesinghe, the country of Sri Lanka’s acting president, has imposed a state of emergency that would last through Monday. According to a special gazette notice, Wickremesinghe proclaimed the emergency in the interests of public safety,...

A senior Ukrainian security official said on Wednesday that Ukraine will declare a statewide state of emergency with additional restrictions in place to keep the country quiet and defend its economy amid worries of a Russian...

Peru’s law and order situation has drastically deteriorated. To deal with the crisis, the government has proclaimed a state of emergency. Thousands of police and army soldiers were deployed by the government in the cities of...

Sri Lanka on Tuesday declared a state of emergency over food shortages as private banks ran out of foreign exchange to finance imports. With the country suffering a hard-hitting economic crisis, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he...

The king of Malaysia, Al-Sultan Abdullah, has declared a months-long state of emergency across the country to combat a rise in coronavirus cases. The move was requested by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, and allows Mr Muhyiddin...

The Japanese government is considering a period of six months for the state of emergency that it is preparing to call in response to the coronavirus pandemic, broadcaster TBS reported on Monday. The move would cover...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will ask parliament to extend lockdown measures by 15 more days until April 26 as the daily pace of new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed again on Saturday in one of...

California’s governor declared a state-wide emergency on Sunday as a huge wind-fueled blaze forced evacuations and massive power blackouts, threatening towns in the famed Sonoma wine region. The so-called Kincade Fire, north of San Francisco, has...

News Hour: France’s National Assembly voted in the early hours of Wednesday to extend the country’s state of emergency for six months following last week’s massacre in Nice, reports BSS. The state of emergency has been...