Emergency in Georgia after unrest
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The first full day of a state emergency is in place in Georgia after police broke up opposition protests.
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Georgia is accused by a rights group of "excessive force" in its crackdown on November's opposition protests.
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Police and paramilitary troops were last night guarding villages in central China where ethnic riots involving thousands of people led to at least seven deaths and scores of injuries.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- At least three Georgian servicemen have been killed and seven wounded in rebel South Ossetia as the central government in Tbilisi tries to bring to bring the breakaway ethnic region back under government control.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - The Greek government declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday after raging forest fires killed at least 46 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.
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Dozens of people have been injured in clashes between Thai security forces and hundreds of protesters who tried to storm a police station in Thailand&#39;s troubled Muslim-majority south.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.
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At least four Georgian soldiers were killed and five wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's separatist, pro-Russian region of South Ossetia, Georgian officers near the frontline with Ossetian forces said early Thursday.
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KATMANDU, Nepal -- King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's government and declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, saying leaders had failed to restore peace or hold elections. It was the second time he has taken direct control of the Himalayan kingdom in three years.
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Ukraine's parliament holds an emergency session to discuss the turmoil caused by the disputed presidential poll.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.
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The east African nation is in crisis after a flawed election leads to riots in the streets and the threat of a confrontation between rival ethnic groups
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Nearly 30 people are being held in Georgia on suspicion of plotting a coup against the government, officials say.
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Georgia is to set up checkpoints in a key gorge in the rebel Abkhazia region, following clashes.
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Separatists threatened Friday to use force to stop Georgia's government from strengthening its control over a gorge on the edge of a breakaway territory.
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President Alejandro Toledo declared a state of emergency in a remote highland province late Saturday after gunmen demanding his resignation seized control of a police station there and took several officers hostage, authorities said.
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Police have raided Georgian businesses  in Moscow after Russia cut transport links with its southern  neighbor, escalating a crisis between the two states.