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- Media Advisory/Interview Opportunity: Ottawa-Based Aid Worker Heading to Bangladesh.
- OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Nov 21, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- The Canadian Red Cross is ramping up its response to the needs in Bangladesh following Cyclone Sidr. Ottawa-based aid worker Bernard LaLiberte will be available for media interviews by appointment tomorrow prior to his deployment to Bangladesh...
- Research articles 2007-11-21
- Taliban says Red Cross workers to be freed soon
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-09-29
- Red Cross workers freed in Afghanistan: official
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-09-29
- New efforts to free Red Cross workers in Afghanistan
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-09-27
- 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
- Two Red Cross workers killed at Lebanon siege camp
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-06-11
- Gunmen posing as police kill 2 Red Cross workers in Sri Lanka
- COLOMBO, June 3 Kyodo Two Red Cross workers were killed in Sri Lanka shortly after they were seized Friday by gunmen claiming to be plainclothes police, the charity said Sunday. The two local employees of the Sri Lanka Red Cross were from the minority Tamil...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- TRAINING FOR LIFE
- REGION Firms focus on preparation for emergencies Here's some heartening news: More Central Pennsylvania businesses than ever offer CPR training to their employees. That was the word from representatives of two midstate organizations that provide the courses. The number of area firms that have offered cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR...
- Research articles 2007-01-26
- Nigerian health workers disinfect pipeline blaze site, search for victims
- 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...
- Research articles 2006-12-27
- Two Italians snatched in Gaza, three Palestinians killed
- GAZA CITY AFP — Two Italian aid workers were kidnapped in the chaotic Gaza Strip as three Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed in Israeli incursions. The Two Red Cross workers were snatched at gunpoint from their vehicle in southern Gaza while travelling alone, en route back to Gaza...
- Research articles 2006-11-21
- 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
- Italian hostages released in Gaza
- GAZA CITY AFP — Two Italian aid workers seized at gunpoint in the Gaza Strip have met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas after their release in the latest kidnapping of foreigners in the lawless territory. Claudio Moroni, 36, and Gianmarco Onorato, 63, of the Italian Red Cross were held for several...
- Research articles 2006-11-22
- Canadian Red Cross Worker Awarded Highest International Red Cross Honour in Nursing at Opening of Annual General Meeting.
- ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND and LABRADOR, Jun 16, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Judi Fairholm, Canadian Red Cross RespectED: Violence & Abuse Prevention national technical director, was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal at an awards dinner l ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND and LABRADOR, Jun 16, 2007 (CCNMatthews...
- Research articles 2007-06-16
- FREE Charity worker released from kidnap ordeal
- THE family of Red Cross hostage victim Donal O'Suilleabhain were last night celebrating his release. The Sligo man was fred unharmed yesterday morning after almost a week in captivity in south-east Ethiopia. He had been kidnapped last Monday along with seven other people near...
- Research articles 2006-09-24
- New clashes in Sri Lanka as foreigners head for safety
- COLOMBO AFP — The Red Cross has ferried 150 foreigners to safety from the besieged Jaffna peninsula as the Sri Lankan military claimed it killed 12 Tamil Tigers when repulsing a rebel attack on an army position. The ferry arrived at the port of Trincomalee in the country's northeast in...
- Research articles 2006-08-27
- Viking aims relief at Katrina victims.(INDUSTRY UPDATE: Noteworthy developments impacting the kitchen and bath market)
- Greenwood, MS--Viking Range Corp., located in the Gulf States region most severely devastated by Hurricane Katrina, is continuing a multi-faceted effort to assist hurricane victims through the recovery process. The company, which sustained only minimal damage from the hurricane, reported last month...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Cannon workers raise $10,000
- Cannon Design announced that the firm has raised $10,000 in donations to assist in the Red Cross Hurricane Relief Effort for Katrina through the donations of its employees and a matching program sponsored by the firm. This special matching program was instituted in response to concerned employees who expressed...
- Research articles 2006-01-25
- CRC worker in Asia quake zone
- OTTAWA -- Shehryar Sarwar, a Canadian Red Cross worker has gone to the earthquake zone in Pakistan to carry out a two-week assessment mission for the Canadian Red Cross. Sarwar has worked in international development for 10 years and has been part of the Canadian Red Cross tsunami operations team...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- Relief worker home too late
- PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. -- Shalon Lopez stared out the window, half- crying, as her friends drove her slowly down her old street. The 28-year-old Mississippi native had returned to see what remained of the apartment complex she once called home in this tiny beachfront town. ...
- Research articles 2005-09-19
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