Honduran President Xiomara Castro declared a national security emergency on Thursday to launch what she called a "war against extortion" in the country amid an escalating number of extortion crimes by criminal gang groups. 

North Korea confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the "gravest national emergency".

US President Joe Biden extends a national emergency against Iran for another year as diplomats are engaged in the final stages of talks in Vienna.

The German Health Ministry has announced that a new wave of coronavirus infections has plunged the country into a national emergency.

President Joe Biden has extended for another year the so-called US national emergency declared in 1995 with regard to Iran as well as all-out sanctions against the Islamic Republic.