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Three weeks to go until the 17th World Rescue Challenge in Lisboa Portugal. The WRO and ANSD are aiming to have all 68 team slots filled. Yes, 68 teams will be competing in what will be the largest World Rescue Challenge so far. CONFIRMED…

Red Cross organisations condemned on Monday an attack in Nepal by anti-government protesters who stopped an ambulances and killed an injured policeman during unrest over a proposed new constitution. 

It was a remarkable and unexpected display of refugee power – the power of the powerless NICKELSDORF, AUSTRIA, Sept 5 (UNHCR) – It began at noon on September 4 with a spontaneous march out of Budapest down the highway towards the Austrian…

Latest news from South Sudan are not good. Two nationals who have been working for the French-based medical relief organization Doctors Without Borders have been killed in the oil-rich Unity State, agency reported on August, 23th. …

RELIEFWEB.INT -July 27, 2015 at 02:31PM Source: International Committee of the Red Cross Country: World ICRC report intended to help hospitals prepare for and manage situations that could jeopardize maintaining the health of people affected…

RELIEFWEB.INT -July 27, 2015 at 10:50AM Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand In Indonesia, ongoing volcanic activity of several…

RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies Country: Nepal The Red Cross continues to focus on providing shelter materials as well as food and essential non-food relief such as household items.…

Source: UN Children's Fund Country: Syrian Arab Republic To address the crisis, and despite the ongoing violence, UNICEF has trebled the scale of its water-trucking services from 800,000 to 2.5 million litres a day, the largest…

Source: International Committee of the Red Cross Country: Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic With no letup in the crisis, people continue to seek safety by crossing from Syria to Jordan. The majority enter Jordan through the…

RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: IRIN Country: World By Jessica Alexander GENEVA, 20 July 2015 (IRIN) - International aid agencies have historically been criticized for failing to seek the views of those they are trying to help, providing them…