"state-of-emergency"

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of emergency in the Philippines after Typhoon Kalmaegi killed 114 people and left 127 missing. The storm displaced over half a million residents, making it the country’s deadliest natural disaster this year.

An executive order was issued on Friday to formally direct all relevant agencies in the city to coordinate their efforts to respond to the asylum seeker humanitarian crisis and construct humanitarian relief centres on a transitory basis.

Colombo: Embattled Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency with effect from Friday midnight, the presidential media division said, the second time in just over a month amidst growing countrywide anti-government protests over the unprecedented economic crisis. The state of emergency gives the police and the security forces sweeping power to arbitrarily […]

The NWS issued its first-ever flash flood emergency alert for New York City, warning more than 9 million residents of imminent danger.

Tokyo logged 591 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday, a slight dip from when the state of emergency began in the capital last month.

The lifting of the measure comes just days before the Olympic torch relay starts from Fukushima, northeast of Tokyo.

This came one day after Italy's Covid-19 death toll has exceeded the 80,000 mark. The country first declared a national state of emergency due to the pandemic on January 31, 2020, Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.

The king can declare a state of emergency that allows the country to be governed through ordinances that cannot be challenged in court.

The monarchy has long been considered sacrosanct in Thailand, and is protected by a law that makes defaming senior royals punishable by a prison term of three to 15 years.