National Emergency

Spain has declared a national emergency in the Madrid region and the neighbouring province of Avila as multiple wildfires continue to burn out of control, forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 people and prompting the…
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Britain's Met Office weather forecaster on Friday declared a national emergency, issuing a red 'Extreme Heat' warning for parts of England for Monday and Tuesday next week when temperatures could reach record highs. "Exceptional, perhaps…
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North Korea officially confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday and ordered a national lockdown, with state media reporting a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron virus had been detected in the city of Pyongyang. "There…
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Russia on Wednesday allegedly carried out a cyber attack on Ukrainian banks and important websites like defence, foreign and internal security. Ukraine's Parliament has declared a national emergency in the wake of the cyber attack. The…
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has declared a national emergency in response to the ongoing truckers’ protests against various Covid-19 related measures including vaccine mandates. Trudeau made the announcement invoking the…
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After confirming the first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Kerala is running the genome sequencing tests on 30 more samples at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology in Thiruvananthapuram. As NDTV stepped into the laboratory -…
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