Nigeria's president declared a state of emergency Thursday in a troubled southwest state where he said the impeachment of the governor by the local legislature violated the constitution.
The Iraqi parliament voted Monday to extend the country's state of emergency for 30 more days.
Scientists demonstrate against state of emergency.
FOR THE United States - and especially for President Bush, who holds such romantic ideas about the transformative powers of democracy - the sight of an ally in the war on terror beating up prodemocracy demonstrators in the streets of Pakistan, arresting lawyers and rival politici …
Hundreds of riot police early today blocked the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and her supporters from making a planned long march from this eastern city 160 miles through Punjab Province to the capital, Islamabad. Ms.
In a defiant news conference Sunday, the Pakistani president, General Pervez Musharraf, refused to give a date for the end of the de facto martial law that he imposed more than a week ago and suggested that it would continue indefinitely, including during parliamentary elections …
Dramatically escalating political tensions in Pakistan, the opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, announced today that her party would carry out a mass demonstration on Friday and a protest march next week if the president, Gen.
Pakistan is rejecting international pressure to end its state of emergency and call elections.
Angry protests by thousands of lawyers in Lahore and other cities on Monday demonstrated the first organized resistance to the emergency rule imposed by the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. But the abrupt arrests of many of them threatened to weaken their challenge.
The United States will review billions of dollars worth of financial assistance to Pakistan following President Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend the constitution and declare a state of emergency, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday.
Police armed with tear gas and clubs attacked thousands of protesting lawyers in the city of Lahore today, and rounded up lawyers in other cities as the government of the Pakistani president, Gen.
The US and Britain are today expected to demand that Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, honour pledges to hold elections in the next two months and step down as the army chief, or face a cut in western support.
World leaders called Sunday for a swift return to a constitutional government in Pakistan and said military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf's declaration of a state of emergency was a setback for democracy.
The proclamation of emergency in Pakistan has made one big difference. All the nearly 30 TV news channels have gone off the air. And with them has gone all the cacophony about the political, judicial and military crisis in the country.
In August, a 2 a.m. phone call from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped pull Gen. Pervez Musharraf from the brink of declaring a state of emergency in Pakistan. Two days ago, Rice made a similar plea. This time, the Pakistani president was not swayed.
The United States has given Pakistan more than $10 billion in aid, mostly to the military, since 2001.
For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.
Civilians in northern Niger are being arrested without charge after the government declared a state of emergency there last month, according to the governor of Agadez.
The dangers of America's Faustian bargain with Pakistan's military dictator are growing more obvious by the day. Gen.
Peeking into her waterlogged basement, Gail Leatherman didn't break down until she saw a soggy photo of her and her husband, taken for their 17th wedding anniversary.
U.S. military intelligence officials are urgently assessing how secure Pakistan's nuclear weapons would be in the event President Gen. Pervez Musharraf were replaced as the nation's leader, CNN has learned.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has sacked the Hamas-led unity government and declared a state of emergency.
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West Virginia and New Jersey officials declared a State of Emergency this morning, and governors of both states are urging residents to stay off the roads. More than 5.5 inches of rain fell in New York City, breaking a 1906 record
The State of Emergency is still in place and we are still waiting for an announcement from the (new) interim Government about its aims and intentions regarding the election. In ten days, no statements have been made and speculation has been rife.
Heavily armed troops have patrolled Nuku'alofa's burnt-out central business district today, enforcing a round the clock curfew after pro-democracy riots yesterday left at least six people dead.
Chad declared a state of emergency on Monday in the capital N'Djamena as well as eastern areas, said a government spokesperson. The measure follows ethnic violence that has killed several hundred people in the last few weeks.