Red Cross

A man walks past a devastated area following the impact of Typhoon Yagi, in Hanoi, Vietnam, September 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Thinh Nguyen
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Multiple climate disasters trigger first ever Red Cross disaster insurance pay-out

The money has so far helped 1.5 million disaster victims in the poorest countries

Photo:Reuters
Hamas-Israel war

Red Cross sets up Rafah emergency field hospital

A worker of Venezuelan Red Cross walks past a truck with logo of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) carrying humanitarian aid, at a warehouse where the aid will be stored, in Caracas, Venezuela, April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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Red Cross elects US humanitarian to lead network after rocky meeting

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger attends a briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, December 14, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Red Cross president meets with Hamas leader in Qatar

Palestinians, who fled their houses amid Israeli strikes, shelter at a United Nations-run school, after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 14, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

Red Cross 'appalled' by human misery of Israel-Hamas war

People in orange jumpsuits protest against the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, outside of the US Capitol in Washington, US, April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
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Guantanamo inmates showing signs of 'accelerated ageing,' Red Cross says

Photo:Reuters
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World 'dangerously unprepared' for next crisis: Red Cross

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger attends a briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, December 14, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Europe

Red Cross chief: major prisoner swap deal is option in Russia-Ukraine war

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a meeting with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine September 27, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Red Cross inactive on prisoners of war

FILE PHOTO: Residents look for medical attention and medicines as the Red Cross brings humanitarian aid in Staryi Saltiv, a village retaken by Ukrainian forces, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, May 20, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Europe

Red Cross pauses Ukraine operations for security reasons

ICRC’s main concern is now to ensure that the boat crew members reportedly injured during the incident receive timely medical assistance and support Photo: Collected
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Red Cross: Humanitarian response to Zaporizhzhia plant could be 'impossible'

Russian army trucks drive across a wheat field in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict near the settlement of Olenivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Europe

Red Cross renews appeal to visit site of Ukrainian POW attack

Photo: Reuters
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Putin agrees to UN, Red Cross help to evacuate civilians from Mariupol steel plant -UN