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Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear declares a state of emergency for Kentucky, United States, amidst the upcoming winter storm.
2025-01-4

Sri Lanka suspends state festivals and public gatherings until September 1 and restricts the number of people to 25 for funerals and 150 for weddings amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
2021-08-6

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

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

Floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka kill at least twenty-four people and leave eight missing.
2014-12-28

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declares a state of emergency after Tropical Storm Lee forms in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
2011-09-1

Brian Schweitzer, the Governor of the US state of Montana declares a state of emergency in counties affected by an oil spill in the Yellowstone River.
2011-07-5

A ship carrying Tamil asylum seekers who are travelling from Sri Lanka nears Canada.
2010-08-12