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NO ONE ALLOWED TO LEAVE MILITANTS SHELL EAST ALEPPO EXIT ROUTE AS HUMANITARIAN PAUSE ENDS

No one allowed to leave Militants shell East Aleppo exit route as humanitarian pause ends -- RT News...
23rd October, 2016 120

HOW DO YOU HELP ONE MILLION PEOPLE WHO NEED FOOD, WATER AND SHELTER AND MOBILISE THAT AMOUNT OF AID IN SUCH A SHORT WINDOW OF TIME?

The Other Side Of The Mosul Operation How Do You Help One Million People Who Need Food, Water And Shelter?...
22nd October, 2016 36

IRAQI ARMY CLAIMS VICTORY ON ROAD TO MOSUL

Iraqi forces report faster than expected progress in the battle for Mosul, Iraq's second city, held for the last two years by ISIL...
21st October, 2016 103

CONCERN GROWS FOR CIVILIANS FLEEING FROM MOSUL AMID IRAQI OFFENSIVE

The United Nations has said it is deeply concerned about the plight of people who flee Mosul as fighting intensifies amid the Iraqi offensive...
21st October, 2016 11

100,000 IRAQIS MAY FLEE MOSUL FOR SYRIA, TURKEY U.N.

UNHCR is concerned that events in Mosul may cause up to 100,000 Iraqis to flee towards Syria and Turkey, the U.N...
17th October, 2016 221

HOW YOU CAN HELP HAITI AFTER HURRICANE MATTHEW

After Hurricane Matthew roared through Haiti causing widespread destruction, the island nation has been left in disrepair...
14th October, 2016 5817

THE GIRLS WERE EXCHANGED FOR FOUR BOKO HARAM PRISONERS IN BANKI, NORTHEAST NIGERIA, SAID LOCAL SOURCES.

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13th October, 2016 0

UN CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON ALEPPO HOSPITALS AS DOCTORS STRUGGLE IN EVER-WORSE CONDITIONS

No anaesthesiologist at all, inside Aleppo city, Abd Abraham Alomar of the Syrian Medical Society SAMS said...
29th September, 2016 83

WE WERE NOT ALLOWED IN, SAID JAN EGELAND, A UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL ADVISER FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS FOR SYRIA.

The United Nations sought to retrieve the bodies of the drivers who had been killed, Mr. Egeland said...
26th September, 2016 1619

SYRIA CONFLICT AIR STRIKE KILLS FIVE MEDICAL WORKERS

At least nine rebel fighters were also killed, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said...
21st September, 2016 545

ALEPPO CIVILIANS LAMENT UN DECISION TO SUSPEND AID

Reports of civilian deaths and heavy bombardment came shortly after...
21st September, 2016 318

UN SUSPENDS ALL CONVOYS IN SYRIA AFTER ATTACK ON AID TRUCKS

The convoy was part of a routine interagency dispatch operated by the Syrian Red Crescent...
20th September, 2016 0

SYRIA'S ARMY HAD DECLARED THE INITIAL CEASEFIRE PERIOD OVER ON MONDAY, HOURS BEFORE THE ATTACK ON THE CONVOY.

U.N. suspends aid after convoy attack Kerry says ceasefire 'not dead'...
20th September, 2016 2608

THE UN SUSPENDS ALL AID CONVOYS IN SYRIA AFTER AN ATTACK ON ITS LORRIES NEAR ALEPPO ON MONDAY, WHICH KILLED ABOUT 20 PEOPLE.

The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent's office in Urum was killed, dying of his injuries as he waited hours to be evacuated...
20th September, 2016 4751

US TO 'REVISE' COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA AFTER UN-RED CRESCENT AID CONVOY ATTACKED NEAR ALEPPO

US to 'revise' cooperation with Russia after UN-Red Crescent aid convoy attacked near Aleppo -- RT News...
20th September, 2016 817

AT LEAST 12 DEAD IN ATTACK ON AID CONVOY IN SYRIA

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 12 aid workers and drivers were killed in the strike, but the United Nations did not confirm the casualties...
20th September, 2016 16

NORTH KOREA HAS CONFIRMED TO INTERNATIONAL AID AGENCIES THAT 133 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AND AN ADDITIONAL 395 REMAIN MISSING.

Typhoon Lionrock unleashed torrential rains in North Korea in late August, which in turn set off floods...
15th September, 2016 5

OUT-OF-CONTROL CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE FORCES EVACUATION OF MORE THAN 80,000, WHILE FLOODWATERS EBB IN LOUISIANA

Hundreds of firefighters were battling a wildfire raging out of control in drought-stricken Southern California on Wednesday ...
18th August, 2016 4

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DECLARED A MAJOR DISASTER IN THE STATE, SPECIFICALLY IN THE PARISHES OF TANGIPAHOA, ST. HELENA, EAST BATON ROUGE AND LIVINGSTON.

Later Sunday, a woman's body was recovered by divers from inside a flooded vehicle in East Baton Rouge Parish, appearing to raise the death toll to five...
15th August, 2016 2

'HELPLESS' CHINESE TOURIST ENDS UP IN GERMAN REFUGEE CAMP AFTER LOSING WALLET

However, due to an unspecified mixup, he ended up speaking to refugee authorities in the city of Heidelberg, over an hour's drive away from Stuttgart...
8th August, 2016 45

U.S. WORRIES RUSSIAN HUMANITARIAN OPERATION IN SYRIA MAY BE 'RUSE'

Aleppo, Syria's biggest city before the war, has been divided since 2012 into government and rebel sectors...
29th July, 2016 52

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ON THURSDAY, AN ADDITIONAL 90 ELDERLY SOUTH KOREANS WILL CROSS THE BORDER FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF THREE-DAY REUNIONS WITH 188 RELATIVES IN THE NORTH.

More than half of the 66,000 South Koreans waiting for reunions are in their 80s or older...
20th October, 2015 7627

ALL THAT SEPARATES KENYA FROM SOMALIA IS A THIN DUSTY LINE.

In the 1960s, Somalia's government sent guerrilla fighters across its border with Kenya.It was called the Shifta War...
4th April, 2015 4431

'DISASTER AVERTED' THE BLUE SKY IS LISTED AS A GENERAL CARGO SHIP, FLYING UNDER A MOLDOVAN FLAG.

Europe 31 December 2014 Last updated at 11 54 Share this page Cargo ship carrying '700 migrants' docks in Italy Please turn on JavaScript...
31st December, 2014 1369

IN THE SUMMER, UKRAINE CUT OFF PENSION AND OTHER SOCIAL SERVICE PAYMENTS TO THE REBEL REGIONS AROUND DONETSK AND LUHANSK.

About 200 refugees, 50 of them children, cower in the subterranean bomb shelter of a children's arts center in Petrovsky district, on the far western edge of Donetsk...
7th February, 2015 1173

AID AGENCIES ARE ALSO TRYING TO GET SUPPLIES TO SANA, WHICH HAS BEEN BOMBARDED NIGHTLY BY SAUDI WARPLANES.

Over the past week, three volunteers with the Yemeni Red Crescent have been killed trying to evacuate wounded people...
4th April, 2015 877

GERMANY UNNERVED BY SCORES OF XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS AGAINST REFUGEES

Germany is turning black, Hempel said, citing the massive influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East...
17th August, 2015 865

RED CROSS APOLOGIZES FOR 'SUPER RACIST' SAFETY POSTER

Read More Arrows point to certain children, indicating not cool behavior with a red arrow and cool behavior with a green arrow...
28th June, 2016 856

MEANWHILE, THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS THAT TALIBAN FIGHTERS WERE ALSO THREATENING NUMEROUS SMALL CITIES IN BAGHLAN PROVINCE, WHICH BORDERS KUNDUZ PROVINCE.

Afghan forces plot counterstrike to regain key city from Taliban grip...
29th September, 2015 806

IN THE SUMMER, UKRAINE CUT OFF PENSION AND OTHER SOCIAL SERVICE PAYMENTS TO THE REBEL REGIONS AROUND DONETSK AND LUHANSK.

Russian-backed rebels massing to attack key ukrainian towns kiev...
7th February, 2015 785

MARGARET HARRIS, A SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S EBOLA RESPONSE.

Brice de le Vigne, director of operations for the Ebola response of Doctors Without Borders, said his organization's workers had also been stoned recently in Guinea...
13th February, 2015 653

A HUGE RESCUE OPERATION IS UNDERWAY WITH THE MYANMAR RED CROSS, THE ARMY, POLICE AND LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS ALL AT THE SCENE TRYING TO DIG PEOPLE OUT OF THE EARTH.

The victims were buried when a vast heap of waste material, discarded by the mining companies, collapsed in Kachin state, Burmese media reported...
22nd November, 2015 549

HOW TO HELP FORT MCMURRAY, CANADA, WILDFIRE EVACUEES

The Edmonton Emergency Relief Services is requesting donations of diapers, baby wipes, pillows, toiletries, socks and underwear...
6th May, 2016 430

AIR STRIKES ON ALEPPO HOSPITAL KILL DOCTORS AND CHILDREN

A Syrian military source said government planes had not been in areas where air raids were reported...
28th April, 2016 388

THE SRI LANKA RED CROSS WAS MANAGING ONE OF AT LEAST FOUR CAMPS NEAR THE ARANAYAKE LANDSLIDE TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO SURVIVORS, MR. JOHNNEY SAID.

The Red Cross said 19 of Sri Lanka's 25 districts had experienced flash flooding, a result of ceaseless rains across most parts of the island since Monday...
18th May, 2016 375

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS AT LEAST 14 KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA HOSPITAL

Hospitals are notatarget, Syria, Doctors Without Borders,A which also goes by the FrenchA moniker MSF MA C decins Sans FrontiA?res, tweeted...
28th April, 2016 335

WORLD VISION AND OTHER AID AGENCIES REJECT AUSTRALIA'S REFUGEE DEAL WITH CAMBODIA

A Cambodian delegation will meet with refugees on Nauru, the spokeswoman for Mr Dutton said...
22nd March, 2015 332

SOME 220 FAMILIES WERE REPORTED MISSING, THE SRI LANKAN RED CROSS SAID IN A STATEMENT.

Rescuers scramble to save lives after days of torrential rain unleashes landslides on three central villages...
18th May, 2016 327

HE WAS BREATHING SO MY WIFE HAD A WEE CHAT WITH HIM HEROIC UK COUPLE WHO GAVE FIRST AID TO TUNISIA VICTIMS

The married couple were in the hotel spa having massages when Rezgui struck and Harrison has told how he and his wife came across the carnage...
1st July, 2015 277

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SOUTH KOREANS HAVE APPLIED TO MEET FAMILIES LIVING IN NORTH KOREA.

For families split by Korean war, a bittersweet reunion or despair...
30th September, 2015 259

IN DAMASCUS, PAWEL KRZYSIEK, ICRC SPOKESPERSON, SAID THAT DESPITE THE DIFFICULT SITUATION IN ALEPPO THAT AFFECTS HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS IN THE CITY, WORK ELSEWHERE WAS CONTINUING.

Aleppo is not part of temporary, partial ceasefire which is now in place in the Damascus countryside and Latakia...
30th April, 2016 255

BANDITS IN GUINEA STEAL BLOOD SAMPLES BELIEVED TO BE INFECTED WITH EBOLA

American virologist David Safronetz carries buckets containing blood samples from suspected Ebola patients...
22nd November, 2014 253

THE 17-YEAR VETERAN COP SHARES ABOUT THE SPIRIT HE AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS SAW AT THE STATEN ISLAND LANDFILL, ALSO KNOWN AS 'THE HILL'.

NYPD cop Frank Marra saw ghost while searching for clues to identify World Trade Center victims...
16th March, 2015 223

THERE HAVE BEEN VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE AND A FAR-RIGHT EXTREMIST GROUP AFTER A PROTEST AGAINST A TENT CAMP FOR REFUGEES IN GERMANY.

Deutsche Welle reports that demonstrators from the right-wing National Party of Germany NPD were protesting in the eastern city of Dresden when the clashes took place...
25th July, 2015 181

U.S. RED CROSS WAIT 28 DAYS TO DONATE BLOOD AFTER VISITING ZIKA AREAS

Scientists in Brazil are evaluating a possible case of Zika virus spread through a blood transfusion, according to theA American Association of Blood Banks...
4th February, 2016 175

SIGNIFICANT RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED FOR THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER, THE SECOND-LONGEST RIVER IN THE UNITED STATES, INTO MID-JANUARY, THE NWS SAID.

Illinois officials have provided 800,000 sandbags to communities endangered by the Illinois, Sangamon, Iroquois and Mississippi rivers, said Patti Thompson, spokeswoman for the Illinois Emergency Management Agency...
31st December, 2015 165

SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR EFFORTS INTENSIFY TO PROTECT ALEPPO

Between 350,000 and 400,000 people are believed to remain in rebel-held parts of Aleppo, once a city of two million...
2nd May, 2016 160

RED CROSS SUSPENDS MOVEMENTS IN YEMEN AFTER TWO WORKERS SHOT DEAD

The Yemeni staff were killed when a gunman opened fire on a convoy travelling from Saada to the capital, Sanaa??a...
2nd September, 2015 143

ZUWARAH LIBYA IBRAHIM AL-ATTOUSHI WAS LOOKING FOR ANOTHER BODY.

ZUWARAH, Libya -- Ibrahim al-Attoushi was looking for another body...
23rd October, 2015 137

MARGARET HARRIS, A SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S EBOLA RESPONSE.

Brice de le Vigne, director of operations for the Ebola response of Doctors Without Borders, said his organization's workers had also been stoned recently in Guinea...
13th February, 2015 125

BUT A CANADIAN CHARITY WATCHDOG SAYS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE MATCHING DONATIONS TO LOCAL CHARITIES IN ALBERTA, AS WELL AS RED CROSS DONATIONS.

Red Cross getting most of Ottawa's donations to help Fort McMurray fire victims...
10th May, 2016 122

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CHUCK GRASSLEY'S OFFICE HAS RELEASED A HIGHLY CRITICAL REPORT ON THE AMERICAN RED CROSS.

Senate Report Finds Red Cross Spends More Than Disclosed On Overhead And Avoids Oversight...
21st June, 2016 0

UN PLANS NO IMMINENT AIRDROPS OF AID IN SYRIA DESPITE EXPIRED DEADLINE

Moreover, the officials said, it would be necessary for security reasons for any airdrops to have the consent of the Syrian government...
3rd June, 2016 73

SYRIA RUSSIA 'SEEKS TRUCE FOR ALEPPO' AFTER WAVE OF DEADLY BOMBINGS

With US Secretary of State John Kerry in Geneva on Sunday for more talks, Washington has accused the Syrian regime of predominantly targetting civilians...
4th May, 2016 17

THE LATEST ATTACK PUSHED THE NUMBER OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES TO CLOSE TO 9,000, THE UNITED NATIONS SAID, WITH 3,218 KILLED AND 5,778 INJURED.

The Saudi-led coalition has repeatedly denied striking civilian targets during operations against Houthi rebels and affiliated forces...
19th March, 2016 115

THE UNITED NATIONS REPORT CAME AS THE WORLD BODY'S HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PREPARED TO TAKE UP THE SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT.

Critics of the government also became targets of state violence, the United Nations team said...
11th March, 2016 690

SECURITY COUNCIL AT THE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN 2015, WHERE HE DELIVERED REMARKS ENCOURAGING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO END THE CONFLICT IN SYRIA.

In this respect, responsibility to protect is still in its infancy...
15th February, 2016 6

ALEPPO OFFENSIVE UPROOTS HUNDREDS, KILLS AID WORKERS: U.N.

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3rd February, 2016 14

THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT INTENSIFIED ITS MILITARY ADVANCE EVEN AS IT TOOK STEPS TO TALK IN GENEVA.

He had met with the Syrian government representatives here on Friday...
2nd February, 2016 98

UNITED NATIONS INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT THAT FRENCH PEACEKEEPERS ABUSED BOYS IN BANGUI, THE CAPITAL OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, IN 2014.

Peacekeepers Accused of Sexual Abuse in Central African Republic...
31st January, 2016 92

THE LATEST AND PERHAPS MOST CONCENTRATED EFFORTS BEGAN THIS PAST WEEK, WITH THE UNITED NATIONS INVITING REPRESENTATIVES FROM BOTH GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION CAMPS TO COME TO GENEVA AND START TALKING.

The main knot in the talks is whether to discuss the future of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad...
30th January, 2016 504

SHOULD I GO? ON TUESDAY, AN ASSORTMENT OF RIVAL SYRIAN POLITICIANS AND WARLORDS GOT A SIMILAR INVITATION -- FOR TEA, COFFEE AND TALKS IN GENEVA.

Several rooms have been prepared throughout the United Nations building for the various delegations to talk with Mr. de Mistura and his team...
27th January, 2016 84

U.N., ICRC AND SARC TEAMS ON MONDAY DELIVERED FUEL TO MADAYA, FOUA AND KAFRAYA, AND DELIVERED FOOD AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO ZABADANI.

More aid reaches besieged Syrian towns U.N., Red Cross...
19th January, 2016 19

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