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• Sri Lankan talks should address humanitarian strife: ICRC

  - 2006-10-26

  GENEVA AFP — The international Red Cross has called on the warring parties in Sri Lanka to discuss humanitarian strife during their face-to-face talks in Geneva, after fighting in recent months left nearly 3,000 dead and forced more than 200,000 people to flee their homes. "We think humanitarian issues could...

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• Israeli PM pledges to ease access in Lebanon, ship heads for Tyre: ICRC

  - 2006-08-10

  GENEVA AFP — A Red Cross ship carrying supplies was heading for the embattled Lebanese port city of Tyre, shortly after ICRC chief Jakob Kellenberger said that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had vowed to ease access for the humanitarian agency in Lebanon. "Today, I received personal commitments from...

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• ICRC chief visits Lebanon

  - 2006-08-07

  BEIRUT AFP — The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross Jakob Kellenberger has arrived in Lebanon to meet government leaders including President Emile Lahoud and Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. Their discussions are due to focus on "the humanitarian situation in Lebanon, ways of providing assistance and...

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• Somalia drought could turn deadly in April: Red Cross

  - 2006-02-15

  GENEVA AFP — The worst drought to hit Somalia in a decade could soon begin claiming lives in the Horn of Africa nation, the international Red Cross warned. "People aren't dying of hunger today in Somalia, but that could change fast," said Pascal Hundt, who heads the International Committee...

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• Red Cross website to help track Katrina missing logs 94,000 names

  - 2005-09-06

  GENEVA AFP — Some 94,000 names have been registered on a website set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross ICRC to help people trace one another in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the number is growing. Use of the list on www.familylinks.icrc.org, which is compiled...

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• ICRC chief meets Bush amid Guantanamo, Iraq concerns

  - 2005-02-15

  GENEVA AFP — The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross met US President George W. Bush to discuss concerns about detainees held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Iraq, the ICRC said. Bush held talks with ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger in...

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• Sudan to attract most ICRC funds in 2005, 30-percent drop in cash for Iraq

  - 2004-12-08

  GENEVA AFP — Strife-torn Sudan will become the largest focus of aid work for the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2005, while money earmarked for Iraq will fall by almost one third, the agency said. The ICRC said it would allocate 130.2 million Swiss francs (114 million...

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• Secrecy gets Red Cross into prisons, but leak of Iraqi abuse report compels speak-out

  - 2004-05-11

  GENEVA AFP ? The International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC, with its policy of total confidentiality, has gained access to thousands of prisoners across the world, but a leak of its report cataloguing abuse by US-led coalition forces compelled the neutral humanitarian agency to speak out. The ICRC...

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• Veteran French lawyer Verges to defend Saddam Hussein

  - 2004-03-27

  PARIS AFP ? Veteran French lawyer Jacques Verges, who acted for Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie and the terrorist known as Carlos, confirmed he has been asked to defend the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Verges also announced he would ask the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC in...

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• World mobilises to help in aftermath of devastating Iran quake

  - 2003-12-27

  GENEVA AFP ? Dozens of countries dispatched doctors, rescue workers with sniffer dogs and medical supplies to Iran, to help in the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake that killed more than 20,000 and left tens of thousands wounded or homeless. The first relief supplies, from Britain, Germany, Russia and...

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