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• Taliban says Red Cross workers to be freed soon

  - 2007-09-29

  GHAZNI, Afghanistan AFP — Afghanistan's insurgent Taliban movement said four Red Cross workers, including two foreigners, would be freed Saturday after they were "mistakenly" kidnapped four days ago. Taliban spokesmen initially denied the movement was involved in the abductions but one of them, Zabihullah Mujahed, said he had found...

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• Red Cross workers freed in Afghanistan: official

  - 2007-09-29

  KABUL AFP — Taliban rebels have freed four Red Cross workers captured four days ago, two of them foreign nationals, a provincial government spokesman told AFP. "I can confirm that they have been freed. They were handed to an Afghan ICRC worker," said Abdul Udood Pashtunzar, a spokesman for...

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• New efforts to free Red Cross workers in Afghanistan

  - 2007-09-27

  GHAZNI, Afghanistan AFP — Negotiators were in touch Friday with the captors of four Red Cross workers, two of them foreigners, who were held in Afghanistan during a mission to free a German kidnapped by the Taliban. Contact had been made with the group that seized the men on...

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• Two Red Cross workers killed at Lebanon siege camp

  - 2007-06-11

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Two Red Cross workers and three soldiers were killed on Monday around a besieged camp in north Lebanon where the army has struggled to crush Islamist militiamen for the past three weeks. Lebanese Red Cross spokesman Georges Kettane said that the two relief workers...

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• Nigerian health workers disinfect pipeline blaze site, search for victims

  - 2006-12-27

  LAGOS AFP — Nigerian health officials have sprayed chemicals to disinfect the site of an oil pipeline explosion that killed more than 260 people and injured dozens, according to the Nigerian Red Cross, while volunteers searched for more victims. The state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, the owner of the...

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• Italian aid workers freed in Gaza

  - 2006-11-21

  GAZA CITY AFP — Two Italian Red Cross workers kidnapped in the southern Gaza Strip were freed, the Red Cross and Palestinian security sources said. Claudio Moroni, 36, and Gianmarco Onorato, 63, were free and on their way back to Gaza City from the south Gaza town of Khan Yunis...

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• Red Cross launches biggest ever recruitment drive to help Katrina victims

  - 2005-09-10

  BATON ROUGE, United States AFP — The American Red Cross launched the biggest recruitment drive in its history, calling for 40,000 volunteers to help ease the misery of homeless victims of Hurricane Katrina. The call for battalions of new aid workers came after more than one million people were...

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• North Koreans face deadly side-effects as aid groups warn of aftermath

  - 2004-04-26

  DANDONG, China AFP ? Thousands of North Koreans face debilitating side-effects from exposure to chemicals that caused last week's train blast, aid groups said, warning the disaster's impact would be felt for years. North Korea officially acknowledged the scale of the tragedy for the first time late Monday, releasing...

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• Aid workers to return to site of N.Korea train blast

  - 2004-04-25

  DANDONG, China AFP ? International aid agencies said they would return to the site of a devastating North Korean train blast, which killed at least 161 people, in an urgent effort to help the victims. Aid workers and diplomats were Saturday shown the massive destruction in Ryongchon near the...

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• North Korea admits rail disaster, says 154 dead and 1,300 injured

  - 2004-04-24

  DANDONG, China AFP ? Acknowledging a catastrophic rail explosion for the first time, North Korean officials said at least 154 people were killed and 1,300 injured, as foreign aid workers arrived at the scene. The Stalinist government broke a two-day silence and said the blast at Ryongchon station near...

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