Sources: CNN
Rival Palestinian factions sign an agreement in Algiers, Algeria, aimed at resolving over 15 years of discord. The agreement is signed by senior Fatah leader Azzam al-Ahmad, Hamas political chief Ismael Haniyeh, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine general secretary Talal Naji, and leaders and representatives of 14 other factions, and calls for legislative and presidential elections to be held in Palestine within one year. 2022-10-13
Twenty-six people are killed by wildfires in Algeria, mostly in the city of El Taref. 2022-08-17
Italy ends its two-year state of emergency and begins to gradually lift attendance limits for outdoor and indoor sports venues, along with a requirement that anyone over the age of 50 should be vaccinated to enter their place of work. 2022-04-1
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces that the state of emergency that was declared in April will end on September 30, with COVID-19-related restrictions to then be gradually eased. 2021-09-28
Interpol reports that in six weeks it has detected more than a dozen people wanted for terrorism offences crossing the Mediterranean Sea using tourist routes. The joint operation involved Algeria, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia. 2019-09-19
Algeria's Chief of Staff of the People's National Army Ahmed Gaid Salah, the highest-ranked military official in the country, gives a televised address, calling on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign or be declared "unfit to serve" by the People's National Assembly. 2019-03-26
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 14 civilians in the southeast Diffa Region of Niger near the Nigerian border. The Nigerien government recently approved a law prolonging a 15-day state of emergency for the Diffa region by three months in a bid to boost security. 2015-10-28
A state of emergency is declared in a number of states including North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut as well as the city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland. 2011-08-26
Mourad Medelci, the foreign minister of Algeria, announces that the 19-year-old state of emergency will end "within days". 2011-02-14
Two men imprisoned for nearly eight years in Guantánamo Bay are sent to Algeria and Cape Verde, according to the United States Pentagon, against their will. 2010-07-20