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Turkish PM says state of emergency may not be extended
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Anadolu [Turkey], June 15 (ANI): Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Thursday that the state of emergency may end on July 17 or 18.
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India welcomes revocation of emergency in Maldives
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 22 (ANI): Welcoming the revocation of the state of emergency in the Maldives, India on Thursday asserted that a number of concerns, expressed by the international community still remain to be addressed.
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Maldivian President lifts emergency after 45 days
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Mar 22 (ANI): Maldives President Abdulla Yameen on Thursday lifted a 45-day state of emergency which had outlawed protests amid a political crisis in the country.
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Sri Lanka president lifts emergency
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Mar.18 (ANI): Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday lifted the nationwide state of emergency, which was imposed on March 6, after clashes erupted between the Buddhist and Muslim community.
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Lanka President promulgates emergency for a week
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Mar 7 (ANI): Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena promulgated a state of emergency for a limited period of one week in the country by bringing into force Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance, Sri Lankan president's media division said.
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India's T20 tri-series to go on despite emergency in Lanka: CK Khanna
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 6 (ANI): Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) acting president CK Khanna on Tuesday said that the board does not foresee any problem in the scheduled Tri-Nation Nidahas Twenty20 Cup due to the state of emergency in Sri Lanka.
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Emergency in Lanka won't affect T20I Tri-series: BCCI
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], March 6 (ANI): The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday notified that the state of emergency in Sri Lanka would not affect the first match of the Tri-Nation Nidahas Twenty20 Cup which was scheduled between India and Sri Lanka at Colombo's Premadasa Stadi
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Emergency imposed in Sri Lanka, curfew in Kandy
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Mar 6 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday has decided to impose a state of emergency for 10 days to control law and order in the country, following the violence against the minority community in Kandy district over the last two days.
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Amnesty International asks Maldives to release 'peaceful' protesters
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
London [United Kingdom], Feb 28 (ANI): Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the Maldives to immediately and unconditionally release the people "arbitrarily" detained under the State of Emergency (SOE) and halt attacks on "peaceful" protesters.
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Emergency in Maldives: Police issues curfew to halt opposition's gathering
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb. 26 (ANI): Amidst the state of emergency in the Maldives, the police here issued a curfew in an attempt to stop an opposition's gathering, said a Maldivian Democratic Party member.
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President Yameen loses support of top law officers
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb.23 (ANI): The Prosecutor General of Maldives, Aishath Bisham, has told police in a letter that the state of emergency declared by President Abdullah Yameen is unconstitutional as the procedure followed for ratifying it in Parliament was not done as per established conven
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Extension of emergency: Maldives says India's remark a 'distortion of fact
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], Feb 22 (ANI): Reacting to concerns raised by India over the extension of the State of Emergency in the Maldives, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Thursday said the assertion by the Government of India about the extension is a clear distortion of facts.
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