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Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after seven weeks of exile.
2022-09-2

California declares a state of emergency due to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
2022-08-2

Sri Lanka's Marine Environment Protection Authority announces that it will take legal action against the owners of the Singaporean container ship "X-Press Pearl" for the marine pollution caused by the ship's fire off the coast of Colombo on May 20. The authority reports that plastic granules from spilled cargo had been washing up on the Sri Lankan coast since May 27.
2021-05-30

Sri Lankan Member of Parliament and former industry minister Rishad Bathiudeen is arrested, along with his brother, under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for having connections with the perpetrators of the 2019 attack.
2021-04-24

The U.S. Department of Justice charges three Sri Lankan nationals with "providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization" in the Islamic State-claimed bombings.
2021-01-8

The Samoan government lifts its six-week state of emergency after a mass immunization campaign against measles reduced the death and infection rates.
2019-12-29

ISIL claims responsibility for the bombings in Sri Lanka that took place on Easter Sunday.
2019-04-23

A series of explosions at churches and hotels in four cities in Sri Lanka, including the nation's commercial capital and largest city Colombo, kills at least 359 people and wounds around 500 others. ISIL has since claimed responsibility for the attacks.
2019-04-21

The state of emergency in New Zealand following the 2011 Canterbury earthquake is extended for another week.
2011-04-12

A Syrian government official says the state of emergency law is to be lifted.
2011-03-28