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national-emergency

Academia 3 months ago

PREMIUM
Every hour counts: Mobilizing national capacity for disaster response

The President must declare the Sumatra floods and landslides a national disaster so the state can mobilize its vast emergency response apparatus and afterward, learn crucial lessons from this incident for future policies and actions.

Archipelago 3 months ago

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Aceh now experiencing a second tsunami, governor says

Nearly 200,000 people died in Aceh alone after a 9.1-magnitude quake off the northern province triggered the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26, 2004.

Americas 1 year ago

Trump says to declare national emergency at border, use military

The 47th US president will set to work almost immediately with a series of presidential decrees intended to drastically reduce the number of migrants entering the country.

World 6 years ago

COVID-19: WHO urges Jokowi to declare national emergency

The WHO recommended that Indonesia take several actions to reduce transmission and prevent further spread of the coronavirus, including “scale up emergency response mechanisms including a declaration of national emergency.”

World 6 years ago

As coronavirus chaos spreads globally, Trump declares US emergency

"To unleash the full power of the federal government to this effort today, I am officially declaring a national emergency - two very big words," Trump said in remarks at the White House Rose Garden.

World 7 years ago

Trump declares 'emergency' to build wall, Democrats cry foul

Trump's extraordinary step would enable him to bypass congressional opposition and seek to redirect federal funds -- including billions of dollars of Pentagon money -- to build the wall.

World 7 years ago

How would Trump's emergency powers help build border wall?

The White House said Trump would also sign a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown, but which only provides $1.375 billion for border barriers or fencing -- far from the $5.7 billion Trump wants.

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