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Sudan declares state of emergency on South border
Sudan declared a state of emergency along its border with South Sudan on Sunday after month-long border clashes, as four foreigners allegedly arrested in the Heglig oil region remained in custody. President Omar al-Bashir issued a resolution declaring the emergency in the border states of South Kordofan, White Nile and Sennar, the official SUNA news [...]
Japan upgrades nuclear emergency level to seven
Japan upgraded its nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises on Tuesday, the first time the ranking has been invoked since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. News of the raised alert comes as the country’s nuclear safety watchdog saidthat radiation emissions equivalent to 10 percent of Chernobyl have leaked [...]
HYDRA ’09 prepares Airmen for real world emergencies
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE: Members of the 615th Contingency Response Wing and 15 other units from around the United States joined together to participate in HYDRA ’09. The joint exercise is the 615th CRW’s most comprehensive training event, organized to allow Airmen to hone their skills and enhance command, control and joint interoperability using realistic [...]


