Peru declares emergency
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Peru declares a state of emergency in an Andean region where army reservists have seized a police station.
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A state of emergency is declared by Greece's PM, amid a rising death toll from forest fires.
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As Islamist gunmen routed his last forces in Gaza, Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the Palestinian government on Thursday and declared a state of emergency after six days of bloody faction fighting.
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With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area.
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US President George W. Bush declared an emergency in southern California due to out-of-control wildfires and ordered federal aid to be directed to the area, the White House announced Tuesday.
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Chad's president declared a nationwide state of emergency Thursday, telling citizens that tightened controls are needed to restore order after recent rebel attacks.
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Major political parties called on Tuesday  for the lifting of a state of emergency in Bangladesh after the  army-backed interim government said it was committed to holding  a parliamentary election at the end of the year.
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30 December 2004 - With the United Nations health agency warning that up to 5 million people in Southeast Asia are without basic services after Sunday&#39;s devastating tsunami, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today chaired a top level emergency meeting to
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Hundreds of people in Peru require treatment after visiting what some say is a meteorite impact site.
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SUVA, Fiji, Dec. 6 -- Fiji's military commander declared a state of emergency Wednesday, a day after he overthrew the elected government and brought international sanctions and censure that began to isolate the South Pacific country.
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LIMA -- Peru declared a state of emergency in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas yesterday where an armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police station and was holding 10 officers hostage. Seven people were injured, two seriously, in a gunfight in the early hours of New Year's Day after former army Major Antauro Humala and ...
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The president declared a state of emergency, announcing in a broadcast on state radio and television that he has ordered the army to "take all necessary measures" to restore order after three days of violent protests.
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LIMA, Peru  - An ex-soldier and 200 supporters  took over a police station in a poor Andean town on Saturday  and demanded the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo  after a gunfight that injured seven people.
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A state of emergency is declared in parts of Colombia where floods have killed at least 14 people, officials say.
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The Bolivian government is holding emergency talks over the severe flooding in much of the country.
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A state of emergency is declared by the Greek prime minister, amid a rising death toll from forest fires.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian police and troops on Monday  launched an offensive to retake a police station in a southern  Andean town and end a three-day siege by ex-soldiers demanding  the resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo.