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REUTERS, July 18, 2014 - Rescue workers have recovered the second flight recorder from the Malaysia Airlines MH17 jetliner which was shot down yesterday night while flying over Ukraine, Reuters said. Pro-Russian separatists in the region…

 GAZA CITY, July 17, 2014 (AFP) - Israel and Hamas have agreed to a UN request to briefly halt hostilities Thursday on humanitarian grounds, after an Israeli strike killed four Palestinian children on a beach, while efforts intensify to…

GAZA CITIY - "Military actions by all parties must stop. Since 2009, history has shown that military operations have failed to bring peace and security for people in Gaza and in Israel. Over the years we have repeatedly called for…

This report is produced by OCHA oPt in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It covers the period from 7 July (1800 hrs) to 9 July (1500 hrs). The next report will be issued on 10 July.  The targeting and…

The "Mirror" say that Prince William is likely to be one of six pilots, mainly from military backgrounds, who fly the ambulance service’s twin-engine EC 135 T2 helicopters in East Anglia. The Air ambulance services fly over the 4 counties…

Eurosatory 2014 Expo host a new sector dedicated to the civil protection, search & rescue and security market. Vehicles, equipments, new technology and devices are the most interesting things in that exposition. Between the 684…

Cassie Majestic, MD Kristi L. Koenig, MDPhoto Credit: Tony Coppolino Fire Chief, Fountain Valley Fire Department University of California, IrvineCenter for Disaster Medical Sciences Wildfires are an annual expected disaster in Southern…

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…

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…

Between April 21 and May 2, the Peruvian armed forces orchestrated the “Cooperation III” multinational military exercise, which was carried out in the coastal cities of Lima and Pisco. The goal was to prepare the Peruvian armed…