Emergency defers Maldives debate
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A parliamentary session due to have begun on Monday in the Maldives has been postponed indefinitely.
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Business & money: Â· Governor rules out emergency rate cutsÂ· Bail out would mean repeat of past errors
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 23--ANNA MARIA ISLAND -- The barrier islands have been spared another week of the unbearable effects of red tide.
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Pakistan was poised to lift emergency rule on Saturday, but critics said it might make little difference for an opposition complaining President Pervez Musharraf can still engineer an election win for his allies.
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The Maldives will need massive amounts of aid to recover from last December's tsunami, which left damages in the Indian Ocean nation amounting to 62 percent of its gross domestic product, the World Bank said.
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The Indian government is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss an outbreak of dengue fever in the country.
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[World News]: Colombo, Nov 27 : Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran Saturday threatened to resume his armed campaign if Sri Lanka did not quickly begin talks on his proposal for an administrative set-up in Tamil areas, which many fear will only
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The Iraqi government yesterday declared a state of emergency for 60 days throughout the country except for Kurdish-run areas in the north as US and Iraqi forces prepare for an expected all-out assault on rebels in Fallujah.
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Iraq's interim government declared a  state of emergency for 60 days on Sunday to quell violence  gripping the country ahead of January elections.
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NEW DELHI -- India's government again put aside private aid groups' urgent requests yesterday to help tsunami survivors on the devastated Andaman and Nicobar Islands, saying a decision would be made after five days.
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"It is necessary to hold constitutional reforms in order to avoid such crisis. 2008 must be devoted to making changes to the Constitution. Such changes must be introduced by the legal VRU"  New parliament must adopt a decision to prevent similar political situation happened this year. via Forum News Portal
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A state of emergency is imposed in Fiji, three months after the previous one was lifted.
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The Maldives has rejected European Union statements that its envoys were denied access to pro-democracy activists jailed after rare anti-government protests in South Asia's most expensive tourist locale.
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Major political parties called on Tuesday  for the lifting of a state of emergency in Bangladesh after the  army-backed interim government said it was committed to holding  a parliamentary election at the end of the year.
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By Griff Witte and Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 2 -- Opposition leaders on Tuesday debated whether to call mass street protests in response to a government decision to delay parliamentary elections that had been due next week, but are now planned for February ...
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Mr.Erik Solheim, Norwegian special peace envoy Thursday urged the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to exercise the maximum restraint and refrain from actions that could be interpreted as provocations, especially
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Lack of funds rather than insecurity has prevented Somalia's parliament from moving to the capital Mogadishu, where a curfew has been imposed amid a deepening insurgency, a senior official said on Saturday.