Indonesia’s government ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross to shut its office in Papua province after staff members visited suspected rebels in jail, officials said Thursday.

Police in the Philippines claimed credit for freeing a kidnapped Red Cross worker from his al-Qaida-linked captors Saturday, but there was no immediate word on the fate on the last remaining hostage.

Officials in the Philippines say police have rescued a Red Cross worker from his al-Qaida-linked kidnappers three months after he and two colleagues were kidnapped on a southern island.

Philippine officials say a Red Cross worker from Switzerland has been released by al-Qaida-linked militants on a southern island three months after he and two other volunteers were kidnapped.

Police say armed men have raided the central plaza of the Mexican tourist town of Taxco during a Red Cross fundraiser, seizing a man and wounding three bystanders with wild gunshots.

The American Red Cross says it’s on track to erase a $210 million deficit and balance its budget by next year.

The American Red Cross says it’s on track to erase a $210 million deficit and balance its budget by next year.

Red Cross officials and police say a mob angered by false rumors that health workers were spreading cholera killed a Red Cross volunteer, two health workers and a policeman in northern Mozambique.

Officials say Philippine marines have clashed for a second day with al-Qaida-linked militants holding three Red Cross workers hostage, killing at least six combatants and wounding 19 troops.

The CIA’s secret interrogation program amounted to torture for some of the 14 “high-value detainees” held by the agency, according to published excerpts of an internal 2006 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.