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Ukrainian troops and military vehicles enter Russia's Belgorod Oblast with the region declaring a state of emergency. Heavy fighting is reportedly underway.
2024-08-15

Haiti's main seaport Port international de Port-au-Prince suspends operations after being attacked and looted by armed gangs. The national state of emergency is also extended for another month amid ongoing civil unrest.
2024-03-7

Spain reports 1,772 new cases of COVID-19 infection in the last 24 hours, which is the highest number since nationwide state of emergency was lifted in June.
2020-08-5

Latvia opts to describe an ongoing drought as "a natural disaster of a national scale" that can be dealt with using normal laws, in preference over declaring a state of emergency.
2018-06-26

The remnant of Hurricane Norbert causes heavy flooding in the state of Arizona leading to the declaration of a state of emergency and causing one death.
2014-09-8

A state of emergency is imposed in the Burmese town of Meiktila after at least twenty people are killed in communal violence.
2013-03-22

Burma declares a state of emergency after several people are killed in sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims
2012-06-11

At least 20 people are killed and over three hundred houses are burned down during riots in western Burma.
2012-06-9

Jay Nixon, the Governor of Missouri, declares a state of emergency in the state following the Joplin tornado and activates the Missouri National Guard.
2011-05-22

Mourad Medelci, the foreign minister of Algeria, announces that the 19-year-old state of emergency will end "within days".
2011-02-14