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Migration, food security and crisis for the 9th Regional Conference of IRC
The 9th European Regional Conference of Red Cross and Red Crescent will be hosted by the Italian Red Cross in Florence from the 3rd to the 6th June gathering 53 National Societies.Among the themes, new aspects of migration, food security,…
The Palermo Fire Department is in New York for visit the FDNY
Only two days left until the “International Firefighting Team of the year 2013” - the Palermo Fire Department - will start their travel to New York to visit the most well-known firefighting team in the world – the New York…
Disease warning for Balkans flood
The European Commission said on Tuesday that 19 EU states had now offered assistance, with close to 400 relief workers from member countries on the ground.
Kristalina Georgieva, EU commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis response, met…
FBR has accomplished a three-month relief mission through southern Shan State
The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) are a humanitarian group who work throughout Burma (also known as Myanmar) but concentrate primarily on the heavily forested border region, delivering emergency medical assistance to sick and injured internally…
Serbia and Bosnia Flood, Europe give his support
Red Cross teams working in close cooperation with the emergency management sector and local emergency headquarters have been helping evacuate the population affected by severe floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The region has…
Red Crescent, psychologist support for the Soma community
The Red Crescent publish on Facebook the last news on the disaster response to the recent explosion at a coal mine in #Soma, western Turkey. As operations to free those who are still trapped continue, 50…
Mine blast in Turkey, hundreds of workers are trapped
(Reuters) - Rescuers pulled more dead and injured from a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday more than 12 hours after an explosion, bringing the death toll to 201 in the nation's worst mining disaster for decades.
Hundreds more were…
Firefighters rescue a girl from Cold Water Challenge
A 16-year-old Menasha girl found herself in a predicament Saturday afternoon when she jumped into the Fox River from Jefferson Park as part of the Cold Water Challenge phenomenon.
The problem was she couldn’t get back out of the water…
Volunteers abduction in Ukraine, ICRC: "Respect for Red Cross Emblem"
Geneva/Kiev (ICRC) – In Donetsk last night, an ICRC staff member and eight volunteers from the Ukrainian Red Cross Society were taken away by a group of armed men and interrogated. All of them were released after a few hours. One…
Malaysian Firefighter stop suicide attempt - VIDEO
PETALING JAYA - As attempts to convince a 35-year old woman not to jump off the 12th floor of Desa Mentari flat here, firemen quietly rappelled to the lower floor and pushed her back to the balcony. The woman was immediately whisked away to…