A police officer is stabbed while responding to an emergency call in the Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan.

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Police officer slashed with knife

The last person rescued from Italy’s shipwrecked Costa Concordia describes banging a frying pan on a wall to alert emergency teams.

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Italy ship purser tells of rescue

Demi Moore suffered convulsions after smoking an undisclosed substance, according to a tape of an emergency call made on Monday.

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Demi Moore 911 call tape released

CAIRO — Egypt’s ruling general announced the partial lifting of a more than three-decades old emergency law on Tuesday, one day before the anniversary of the start of Egypt’s revolt. Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi promised that the law would be lifted on Wednesday morning, but he reserved the right to apply the law in cases of “thuggery.” Read full article > >

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A proposal to bring in Army medics to cover a shortage of doctors at a hospital’s emergency department is criticised by MPs.

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Army A&E medics plan ‘worrying’

Emergency crews work through the night around wreck of a stricken cruise ship, but say there is just a “glimmer of hope” for the 29 people still missing.

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Fears grow for Concordia missing

A Russian tanker is slogging through sea ice behind a Coast Guard icebreaker, trying to bring 1.3 million gallons of emergency gasoline and diesel to remote Alaska.

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Icebreaker Slowly Carves Path for Tanker to Bring Emergency Fuel to Alaska

The trial of two men charged with the murder of Police Constable Stephen Carroll in Craigavon hears he was lured to his death when he answered an emergency call.

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Two deny murdering PSNI officer

A police car which hit and killed a pedestrian on Tyneside was on an emergency call, it is revealed.

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Fatal police car was on 999 call

JUBA, Sudan — Aid groups are mounting a “major emergency operation” in rural South Sudan after tribe-on-tribe violence sent tens of thousands of people fleeing and killed an unknown number of people, the U.N. said Saturday. The U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan, Lise Grande, said aid groups are responding to a call for help from South Sudan’s central government after a column of 6,000 armed men from the Lou Nuer ethnic group marched into Pibor in Jonglei state to target the Murle community in late December and early January. Read full article > >

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UN: ‘Major emergency operation’ after tribe-on-tribe violence in S. Sudan touches 60,000

At least 50 people are killed in eastern Nigeria in clashes over land, as the president declares a state of emergency in areas affected by Islamist attacks.

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Nigerian ethnic clashes kill 50

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in areas targeted by Islamist militants, who killed dozens on Christmas Day.

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Nigeria’s president declared a state of emergency in four states and ordered the closure of borders near the affected areas.

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Nigeria Calls State of Emergency Over Sect Attacks

More than 400 firefighters and 170 emergency workers were marshaled to extinguish a fire that had raged for almost a day on a nuclear submarine in dry dock.

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Russian Submarine Fire Took Hundreds of Workers a Day to Extinguish

MOSCOW — A major fire aboard a docked Russian nuclear submarine that overwhelmed seven crew members with toxic fumes and left others stuck inside was extinguished Friday and caused no radiation leaks, officials said. Firefighters continued to spray the vessel with water to cool it down, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said. The fire broke out Thursday at an Arctic shipyard outside the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk where the submarine Yekaterinburg was in drydock. Read full article > >

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Fire at Russian nuclear sub injures 7; officials say no radiation leak