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- Canada Helps Cubans Affected by Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike
- The Government of Canada today announced a $400,000 contribution to assist the people of Cuba affected by Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike. Of that amount, $200,000 will be transferred to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC, allowing the IFRC and the Cuban Red...
- Research articles 2008-09-19
- Utahns to join relief efforts
- SALT LAKE CITY -- American Red Cross Chapters in Utah are fielding calls for help from Texas. Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter Emergency Services Director David Neale said, "According to fleet logistics at American Red Cross National Headquarters, all Emergency Response Vehicles in the state of Utah are...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- Canadian Red Cross Reports Gaps in Disaster Response Capacity
- In the next decade, Canada can expect to suffer more severe storms, more flooding and a possible influenza pandemic. But according to the latest research by the Canadian Red Cross there are gaps in Canada's disaster safety net. Plugging those gaps is the subject of this week's meeting of...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- 4 Hours In . . . Geneva
- A haven for luxury shopping, a world center of the fine-watch industry and home to the United Nations and the Red Cross, the small Swiss capital is a bustling, cosmopolitan city also offering plenty of delights on the artistic and culinary fronts. Rent a bike...
- Research articles 2008-06-16
- Red Cross, Amnesty paint grim picture of post-invasion Iraq
- GENEVA AFP — Five years after the US-led invasion, Iraq faces a major humanitarian crisis, with law and order and economic recovery a distant prospect, international aid and human rights groups said Monday. The International Committee of the Red Cross highlighted the plight of millions of Iraqis who still...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- Media Advisory/Interview Opportunity: Canadian Aid Workers Respond to Massive Flooding in Southern Africa.
- OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jan 25, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- The Canadian Red Cross is ramping up its response to widespread flooding in Southern Africa that has left tens of thousands homeless across six countries. Two Canadian aid workers will be deployed to respond to the massive...
- Research articles 2008-01-25
- Security fears put Colombia hostage-release on hold
- CARACAS AFP — An operation to pluck three hostages held by Marxist rebels from the Colombian jungle was put on hold Friday after the Red Cross ruled out an after-dark handover due to security concerns. "The second phase of the operation cannot be done today," said Barbara Hintermann of...
- Research articles 2007-12-27
- Fears over first aid
- ONLY 3% of the population have even the most basic resources for use in a disaster situation, the British Red Cross said. Despite 68% of Britons saying they think they are prepared for an emergency, most do not have the five basic Red Cross criteria for personal emergency preparedness:...
- Research articles 2007-12-03
- Red Cross staff seized, Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan
- KABUL AFP — Four Red Cross staff, two of them foreigners, were held by unknown kidnappers Thursday as military officials announced two Danish soldiers were killed in a new attack by extremist Taliban fighters. An overnight operation near the border with Pakistan, meanwhile, killed 18 Taliban, a provincial official...
- Research articles 2007-09-27
- Iraq and Afghanistan Updates
- As the final surge of new troops arrived in country, the Army's counterinsurgency COIN efforts in Iraq drew anticipated fire from insurgents, particularly in the form of roadside bombs and suicide bombers, in the first two weeks of June. At least 16 American servicemembers were killed in Iraq during the...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- 2 aid workers die in Lebanon camp
- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A mortar shell fired from inside a besieged Palestinian refugee camp struck a Red Cross vehicle Monday, killing two of the aid agency's workers and critically injuring a third, Lebanon's state-run news agency and security officials said. The National News Agency said the two...
- Research articles 2007-06-12
- Two Red Cross workers die in Lebanon camp
- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A mortar shell fired from inside a besieged Palestinian refugee camp struck a Red Cross vehicle Monday, killing two of the aid agency's workers and critically injuring a third, Lebanon's state-run news agency and security officials said. The National News Agency said the two...
- Research articles 2007-06-12
- New Scam Targets Military Spouses
- The American Red Cross is warning military spouses about a new identity-theft scam that targets family members of deployed troops. The Red Cross was alerted of the scam early last month, said Devorah Goldburg of the Red Cross. The scam involves a person calling a military spouse, identifying herself as...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Red Cross aid convoy attacked in north Yemen
- GENEVA AFP — The International Red Cross revealed Thursday that one of its humanitarian aid convoys came under attack from heavy gunfire in the north of the country, injuring two Yemeni Red Crescent volunteers. The 15-truck convoy, organised jointly by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the...
- Research articles 2007-05-03
- Red Cross warns of 'ever-worsening' crisis for Iraqi civilians
- GENEVA AFP — The Iraqi people face an "ever-worsening" humanitarian crisis, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday in a report on civilian misery four years after the US-led invasion. "The suffering that Iraqi men, women and children are enduring today is unbearable and unacceptable. Their lives...
- Research articles 2007-04-11
- American Red Cross Honors ChoicePoint(R) With Circle of Humanitarians Award
- To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: Joshua Kittner of the American Red Cross, +1-202-303- 4249, KittnerJ@usa.redcross.org; or Tina Stow of ChoicePoint, +1-770- 752-3985, Tina.Stow@choicepoint.com WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross today proudly announced that ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) received the Circle of Humanitarians award in recognition of a generous gift of...
- Research articles 2007-02-08
- Provo Red Cross volunteers head to Oklahoma
- PROVO -- Two local Red Cross volunteers departed Provo on Thursday morning, driving an emergency response vehicle to eastern Oklahoma to help deliver food and supplies to rural residents cut off by the snow and ice storms that have created an emergency in the Sooner State. John Stone,...
- Research articles 2007-01-19
- Italian aid workers freed in Gaza
- 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...
- Research articles 2006-11-21
- Red Cross unveils mass southern Africa AIDS project
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — The Red Cross has unveiled ambitious plans to help 50 million people in southern Africa combat the scourge of AIDS, as it appealed for hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the programme. The Geneva-based organisation said it needed 300 million dollars to pay for its campaign...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Red Cross meets with top Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo
- WASHINGTON AFP — Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross have interviewed 14 top al-Qaeda prisoners at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, a Pentagon spokesman said. "I can confirm that they did meet with the detainees," said...
- Research articles 2006-10-12
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