Panama has declared an emergency in its main banana-producing region, after shops were looted and buildings vandalised in ongoing protests over a pension reform. The government says constitutional rights will be suspended for the next five days in the north-western Bocas del Toro province. The measure restricts freedom of movement and allows the police to...
In late May, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office sent out a press release announcing an executive order that declared a drought emergency and state of emergency in New Mexico. The order itself was missing two things: It didn’t actually include an emergency declaration, and it didn’t say why the state was in the midst of...
Since this started last Friday, elected Democrats and their media allies have been doing their best to downplay the riots in Los Angeles. But as things continued to get out of hand a gulf emerged between what authorities were saying and doing and how the media was describing things. For instance, here’s CNN’s Brian Stelter...
As I pointed out here, the case that Los Angeles doesn’t need any additional law enforcement help is looking pretty thin after a dozen or more businesses were looted last night. And yet, Gov. Newsom is suing the Trump administration and today California’s AG Rob Bonta asked for an Emergency Restraining Order to stop the...
The Trump administration’s rule change will create “fear and confusion” at hospitals across the country, critics noted. The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it is rescinding a Biden-era guidance requiring emergency rooms across the country to provide abortion services to people facing health emergencies relating to pregnancy complications. That guidance, issued in 2022 shortly...
Tanya Gupta BBC News, West Midlands Getty Images A 25-year-old prison officer was attacked, police confirmed A prison officer has undergone emergency surgery, the BBC has been told, after being airlifted to hospital with serious injuries following a stabbing at a high security prison. Emergency teams were called to HMP Long Lartin in South Littleton,...
An emergency road closure has been put in place in Torquay due to “a potentially unstable slope supporting the highway”. Torbay Council said the closure on Ilsham Marine Drive was likely to be in place for several weeks. It said “a small void and surface fractures” had appeared in the road last weekend. The local...
A World War Two Spitfire has been forced to make an emergency landing in Kent after losing power. Spitfire MJ627 came down in a field on Lower Wall Road, West Hythe, on Saturday evening, said its owner Fly a Spitfire. Kent Fire & Rescue Service said one of the two people in the plane, which...
More than 50 Venezuelan migrants had been “loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport” from Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to halt its plans to deport them early Saturday morning. “The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class...
Colombia has declared a nationwide health emergency after at least 34 people died of yellow fever, according to official figures. Yellow fever is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. It can be prevented by a vaccine which in most cases provides lifelong protection. The government has urged people to get vaccinated...
Thousands of demonstrators spoke out against Israel’s genocide and the U.S.’s detention of student activists. On Monday evening, thousands of Jewish demonstrators and their allies held an emergency Passover Seder outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in Manhattan, in protest of the U.S. government’s abduction of student activists who are opposed to Israel’s...
Brian Wheeler Political reporter House of Commons The UK government is taking control of Chinese-owned British Steel after emergency legislation was rushed through Parliament in a single day. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told MPs the government’s likely next step would be to nationalise the Scunthorpe plant, which employs 2,700 people. But he said he was...
Guy Hedgecoe Business reporter BBC Blanca Castro, who rents an apartment in central Madrid, says she is being forced out by her landlord Blanca Castro puts on a builder’s helmet before opening the door to her kitchen. Inside it, the ceiling has a large hole that is dripping water and it looks as if it...
Roy Ikohora Sally Wynter said her situation “could have been so much worse” A woman who was attacked on a Tube train in central London has said she was then left standing on a platform for a “harrowing” 30 minutes because no one answered the emergency calls she made from a help point. Sally Wynter...
A “large scale” police response has been deployed in North Woolwich after reports of an 11-year-old girl in the River Thames. The Met police said they were called at about 13:15 BST on Monday to Barge House Causeway, near London City Airport. A police spokesperson said a “large scale response is ongoing, supported by all...
