PARIS (AP) — France’s Parliament has adopted a sweeping counterterrorism law that replaces a 2-year-old state of emergency and is meant to give police more tools to fight violent extremism.
California has 64 active fires burning across the state, with the worst devastation caused by the seven major Wine Country fires, fueled by 68-mile-per-hour Diablo winds that have burned 94,000 acres, killed 11 people, and destroyed at least 2,000 homes and businesses.
President Donald Trump warned Americans of Hurricane Irma, a fast-building storm headed for the East Coast.
President Donald Trump announced that he planned to declare the national opioid crisis a “state of emergency,” allowing the release of federal funds to help combat the alarming rate of overdose deaths and addictions. “I’m saying officially right now it
The political establishment prepared detailed plans to “protect the republic” if Marine Le Pen won the French presidency. “It was a multi-stage rocket. The philosophy, and the imperative priority, was to maintain civil peace,” a senior government official told L’Obs.
California Gov. Jerry Brown declared Friday that the drought in his state is officially over, with a formal declaration to an end of the drought state of emergency in most counties.
TEL AVIV – Turkish authorities reportedly tortured political detainees after a failed military coup led to thousands of arrests during the government-declared state of emergency, NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged.
Leaving more than 100 dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew steamed toward heavily populated Florida with terrifying winds of 140 mph Thursday, and 2 million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland.
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued a decree to initially release an estimated 38,000 in an apparent effort to make space for thousands of accused plotters detained in connection with last month’s failed military coup attempt.
Venezuela’s opposition-controlled parliament has rejected a state of emergency that President Nicolas Maduro decreed over a nation suffering from food shortages and a crumbling economy.
PARIS (Reuters) – France plans to extend the state of emergency in place since November’s attacks on Paris for a further two months to ensure security at the Euro 2016 football tournament, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday. “Faced
Hawaii’s governor David Ige declared a state of emergency for mosquito-borne illnesses on Sunday, including Zika and dengue fever. The latter has been an especially urgent concern, with over 250 confirmed cases of dengue reported during the current outbreak.
Twelve indigenous children from the Achuar tribes in Peru have died of rabies after being bitten by blood-sucking bats, while several more are still battling the disease.
Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency over the Zika virus on Friday afternoon, following the confirmation of 22 cases of the infection, including one pregnant woman, and one man who developed the severe Guillain-Barre syndrome neurological reaction.
Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency over the Zika virus threat in four counties on Wednesday, saying that he wanted state resources prepared for the possibility that Zika could begin spreading through Florida’s mosquito population.
An apartment building in Pacifica, California is in danger of toppling into the ocean as El Niño-fueled waves batter and erode the cliff underneath it.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that France would seek to keep its current state of emergency until a “total and global war” against the Islamic State was over. The emergency measures—including greater police presence, added transportation security, heightened electronic
(AFP) – The French cabinet backed reform proposals Wednesday that could see the state of emergency called after last month’s Paris attacks enshrined in the constitution. Special policing powers used under the state of emergency — such as house arrests
California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in San Bernardino County–more than two weeks after the December 2 terror attacks that took the lives of 14 people.
The National Gun Victims Action Council (NGVAC) is urging President Obama to declare a “state of emergency” and use subsequent emergency powers to institute gun controls rejected by Congress.
PARIS, Nov 19 – France’s lower house of parliament extended a state of emergency imposed after attacks in Paris for three months on Thursday and toughened a series of security measures which date back to 1955. France imposed the state
Scientists are questioning California Gov. Jerry Brown’s judgment on the environment–for the second time in as many weeks.
The City of Los Angeles is preparing to declare a state of emergency on the epidemic levels of homeless population and is planning to use $100 million dollars to spearhead the fight that one councilman suggested is a precursor to
Firefighters battling the devastating “Rocky Fire” in Northern California brought the blaze under 40 percent containment on Thursday morning, the CalFIRE agency reported.
Hundreds took to City Heights area streets calling for greater law enforcement transparency following the example of protests over the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and other “BlackLivesMatter” protests in recent months.
