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It’s been a year since a massive earthquake devastated Haiti. Days after, huge sections of the country lay in rubble. But in spite of the fact that the world immediately came together to help those affected by this disaster, with over a billion plus..
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Investigations are underway into the misappropriation of funds at the Konti recycling store operated by the Finnish Red Cross (SPR) in the city of Lahti in southern...
made popular Sep 21 2010
Security officials in Kyrgyzstan claim the son of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev offered to pay $30 million to militant groups, including the Islamic Movement of...
made popular Jun 25 2010
Bodies littered the streets of the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh where fresh gunfire rang out, and more fighting was reported in the nearby city of Jalalabad. The...
made popular Jun 15 2010
So, The International Red Cross has defended giving first aid training to the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying it’s a part of its strict neutrality to train both...
made popular May 28 2010
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has closed its offices in Quetta (Balochistan) after receiving threats from unknown people n Friday (May 14, 2010)....
made popular May 17 2010
An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale has struck Yushu County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province at 7:45am today. According to the...
made popular Apr 15 2010
The parents of an injured baby girl who was flown to Florida for treatment after Haiti’s earthquake have been told what they already know: They are the biological...
made popular Mar 18 2010
Even the Red Cross isn’t safe from the vicious fighting across the border.
made popular Mar 8 2010
At 6:05 a.m., the emergency call crackles over a scanner in the Mexican Red Cross ambulance station: gunshot victim.
Jose “Cache” Gomez, an ambulance...
made popular Mar 8 2010
The Red Cross clinics in parts of northern Mexico refuse to admit patients who have been injured from gunshot wounds after being caught up in the drug war in which hit...
made popular Mar 8 2010
Red Cross clinics in some parts of Mexico are refusing to treat people wounded by gunshots after finding themselves caught in the drug war, with cartel hit men...
made popular Mar 6 2010
I have no idea, but I wouldn’t rule out an attempt by Hamas to find a way to blame Israel for this.
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Bomb blast rocks Gaza Red Cross convoy in possible...
made popular Feb 5 2010
Nearly half a million people have fled Port-au-Prince for the Haitian countryside following the devastating earthquake that destroyed the capital, the United Nations...
made popular Feb 3 2010
Haitian police shot and killed a man they suspected of stealing rice in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince on Thursday, leaving his body on the sidewalk for hours as his...
made popular Jan 25 2010
With slightly less than 36 hours before collection stations close, the Mexican Red Cross has announced the collection of more than two thousand 835 tons of humanitarian...
made popular Jan 22 2010
Jacmel was the artsy town Kathryn Bolles would travel to on weekends, a respite from the bustle of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
But when a colleague with the...
made popular Jan 16 2010
“This boy got here yesterday afternoon. He had been trapped under blocks at his house. His right left was broken in two places. He left leg was smashed below the...
made popular Jan 15 2010
With chilling regularity, a pickup truck from the Haitian police or a taxi driver with a station wagon pulled up to deliver more bodies to the morgue. Flies buzzed on...
made popular Jan 15 2010
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Survivors strained desperately on Wednesday against the chunks of concrete that buried this city along with thousands of its residents, rich and poor, from shantytowns...
made popular Jan 15 2010
The earthquake itself is over - but as these images show, the horror in Haiti is only just beginning.
Stunned Haitians began stacking bodies on the streets of their...
made popular Jan 14 2010
Colombia’s most active volcano has erupted, forcing the evacuation of 800 people who lived close to Mount Galeras.Officials say no one was injured after...
made popular Jan 5 2010
The International Committee of the Red Cross said that it has found at least fifteen bodies and several children alive but emaciated in a row of shattered houses in...
made popular Jan 9 2009
Tens of thousands of people killed in last month’s cyclone may never be identified because their bodies have decomposed so badly and many ended up far from home,...
made popular Jun 8 2008
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# The ORB/Channel 4 News survey of 4,000 people suggested that seven out of 10 Iraqis want foreign forces to leave.
# Red Cross says that millions of Iraqis have...
made popular Mar 18 2008
Typhoon Durian, which is the fourth in a row in the past four months, hit Philippines on Thursday at 140 miles an hour wrecking the archipelago. The death toll feared...
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