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• African migrants die on route to Spain's Canary Islands

  - 2008-09-03

  MADRID AFP — Fourteen African migrants died, mostly of hypothermia, trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands by boat after they became lost at sea several times, local officials said Wednesday. The wooden fishing boat carrying 46 passengers and the bodies of 13 others was spotted by a police patrol...

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• Searchers in Ecuador locate crashed Venezuelan cargo jet, victims

  - 2008-08-31

  QUITO AFP — Search teams recovered the wreckage of a missing Venezuelan cargo jet that crashed in the mountains of southern Ecuador and the remains of the aircraft's three crew members, Red Cross spokeswoman Cristina Medina said. The plane, which went missing Saturday, was found in a mountainous area...

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• Hundreds evacuated near Grand Canyon as dam bursts: reports

  - 2008-08-17

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Hundreds of people were evacuated from a remote town in the Grand Canyon on Sunday after heavy rain caused an earthen dam to burst, reports said. Local media citing the US National Park Service said between 300-400 people were evacuated from the Indian tribal village...

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• Red Cross moves aid into southern Philippines after Muslim clashes

  - 2008-08-14

  COTABATO CITY, Philippines AFP — The Red Cross began moving aid into the southern Philippines on Friday in a major relief effort three days after government forces expelled Muslim insurgents who had stormed the area. As some residents trickled back to their deserted villages, the National Disaster Coordinating Council...

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• Cholera kills 21 in Philippines: Red Cross

  - 2008-08-06

  GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines AFP — At least 21 people have died and more than 60 others are in hospital following a cholera outbreak in the southern Philippines, the local Red Cross said Wednesday. The outbreak began more than a week ago among Manobo tribesmen in an isolated area on...

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• Spate of disasters empties Red Cross coffers

  - 2008-06-17

  WASHINGTON AFP — A string of recent weather-related calamities across the United States has left the American Red Cross low on cash and struggling to provide aid to disaster victims, officials from the premier US charity group said Tuesday. "Our disaster relief fund is empty, but there's a lot...

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• Red Cross cares for 25,000 after South African unrest

  - 2008-05-24

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — The Red Cross in South Africa said Saturday it was caring for 25,000 displaced people following nearly two weeks of anti-immigrant violence amid emerging evidence of a humanitarian crisis. The new figures came as the army said it had shot dead a man in a Johannesburg...

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• 100 killed in new Nigeria pipeline inferno: Red Cross

  - 2008-05-15

  LAGOS AFP — An oil pipeline explosion killed about 100 people on Thursday near a primary school in a suburb north of Lagos, the Red Cross said. An earth-moving excavator at a road construction site accidentally burst the pipeline causing the explosion and an inferno which engulfed adults and...

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• Aid groups fear worsening of humanitarian crisis in Iraq

  - 2008-03-28

  GENEVA AFP — The United Nations Children's Fund, the Red Cross and the International Organisation for Migration expressed concern Friday about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Iraq after recent military operations. "The population was not expecting this, they didn't build up any food stocks. There is also a problem...

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• Red Cross slams 'critical' situation in post-invasion Iraq

  - 2008-03-16

  GENEVA AFP — The humanitarian situation in post-war Iraq five years after the US-led invasion is one of the most critical in the world, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a report late Sunday. Millions in the country had no access to drinking water, sanitation or...

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