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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
11/1/2022 8:07:00 PM
Egypt is closer to having its first-ever single emergency helpline after President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi inaugurated the project's main control centre in Mokkatam on Monday.
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Egypt
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Society
10/31/2022 6:21:36 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi underlined on Monday the importance of establishing the Unified National Network for Emergency and Public Safety in fully securing data and communications.
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World
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International
10/30/2022 10:41:03 AM
Emergency workers scrambled to rescue residents trapped by floods in and around the Philippine capital on Sunday as Tropical Storm Nalgae swept out of the country after killing at least 48 people.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 10:00:16 PM
A gun attack in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron wounded five people on Saturday, including four Israelis and a Palestinian, with the assailant shot dead, Israel's emergency services and the Israeli occupation army said.
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COP27
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Focus
10/27/2022 3:23:48 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday it would be "stupid" for the world to keep relying on fossil fuels, saying they triggered today's climate emergency.
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Business
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Energy
10/25/2022 4:57:13 PM
Saudi Arabia's energy minister on Tuesday blasted the release of emergency oil stocks as an attempt to "manipulate markets", the latest apparent salvo in a spat with Washington over oil production.
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Sports
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World
10/21/2022 8:44:09 PM
Russian soccer clubs will challenge FIFA at sport's highest court next month over emergency rules that let players suspend their contracts and leave since the country's invasion of Ukraine.
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World
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International
10/15/2022 2:53:30 PM
A man was found dead and two others were missing on Saturday after torrential rain brought major flooding to the Greek island of Crete, emergency workers said.
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:48:37 PM
Around 909,000 people have reportedly been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the UN's emergency response agency said Tuesday, more than doubling estimates released last month as torrential rains ravage crops and destroy homes.
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World
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Africa
10/10/2022 10:12:05 PM
A boat overloaded with passengers fleeing flooding in southeastern Nigeria capsized and 76 people remain missing days later and are feared dead, emergency officials said Monday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/9/2022 10:21:32 PM
An external power line to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, was repaired on Sunday after shelling disconnected the facility from the grid and forced it to resort to emergency diesel generators, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.
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World
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International
10/8/2022 5:14:49 PM
The death toll from a gas station explosion that shattered a small village in northwest Ireland rose to 10 on Saturday, and emergency workers who combed through piles of rubble said they did not expect to find more bodies.
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World
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International
9/25/2022 11:54:26 AM
Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for all of Florida on Saturday as Tropical Storm Ian gained strength over the Caribbean and was forecast to become a major hurricane soon on a track toward the state.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
9/21/2022 10:37:50 PM
Top European Union diplomats will hold an emergency meeting late Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations to discuss potential new sanctions against Russia after Moscow called up reservists to fight its war in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
9/1/2022 12:50:14 PM
One of the six reactors at a Russian-held nuclear plant in southern Ukraine was shut down Thursday as an emergency protection measure after shelling in the area, Ukraine's nuclear agency said.
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World
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International
8/29/2022 8:21:47 PM
The European Union is preparing to take emergency action to reform the electricity market and get a grip on energy prices that have soared since Russia invaded Ukraine, senior officials said Monday.
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World
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Region
8/23/2022 3:00:16 PM
Telecom price hikes in Lebanon have slashed the number of emergency callers to aid hotlines, limiting access to relief services at a time of unprecedented economic crisis, Mercy Corps said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
8/21/2022 10:47:45 AM
Turkish authorities on Sunday investigated a pair of secondary crashes at emergency sites that killed at least 35 people the previous day. In both cases, first responders tending to earlier collisions were among the dead.
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World
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International
8/16/2022 6:46:28 PM
Sri Lanka will not extend a state of emergency imposed to control anti-government protests as the situation in the impoverished nation has "stabilised", the president's office said Tuesday.
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World
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International
8/13/2022 5:09:18 PM
In November 1979, a little over a week after student militants seized control of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American citizens hostage, President Jimmy Carter issued Executive Order 12170 declaring a national emergency against Iran.
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