Guinea under state of emergency
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Guinea's president declares a 'state of siege' and tells the army to restore order after three days of violent protest.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra   declared a state of emergency in Bangkok on Wednesday shortly   after Reuters witnesses saw tanks surrounding Government House.
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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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Guinean President Lansana Conte declared martial law in the West African country on Monday after unions resumed a general strike against his 23-year rule and at least nine people were killed in violent protests.
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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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Guinea's military enforced draconian martial law measures across the West African state on Tuesday, quashing protests and arresting curfew-breakers to halt a widening revolt against President Lansana Conte's rule.
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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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Guinea's military enforced draconian martial law measures across the West African state on Tuesday, quashing protests and arresting curfew-breakers to halt a widening revolt against President Lansana Conte.
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Fiji radio said on Wednesday that a state of emergency would be declared in the South Pacific island nation a day after the military staged the country's fourth coup in 20 years.
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Paraguay has declared a state of emergency following a wave of dengue fever cases as concerns over the mosquito-borne illness rise across Latin America.
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A state of emergency is imposed in Fiji, three months after the previous one was lifted.
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DILI, East Timor, March 5 -- East Timor's president invoked emergency powers on Monday to quell unrest after hundreds of young men demanding a withdrawal of foreign troops blockaded roads with burning tires and concrete blocks. The United States issued a travel warning, and Australia said it would...
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Security is tightened around Guinea's presidential palace after a reported a shooting incident.
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A state of emergency is decleared in Bangkok, as tanks surround the prime minister's office and the king is declared head of state
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Britain was coming under pressure last night to explain why it failed to warn the oil-rich and repressive central African state of Equatorial Guinea of an impending coup
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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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Soldiers in Guinea ramped up security  in the capital Conakry on Wednesday after unconfirmed reports  of an attempt to oust ailing President Lansana Conte, witnesses  and diplomats said.