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UNICEF announces cash aid for Afghanistan's poor families
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has announced cash aid for 100000 poor families in Afghanistan to help them survive the upcoming winter.
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Humanitarian needs of Afghans rising: Red Cross Report
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 18 (ANI): There is no end to the crisis in Afghanistan as more as more people are compelled to live on the streets and struggle to find food, the International Committee of the Red Cross stated, highlighting increasing need for humanitarian aid in the country.
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Red Cross to deploy specialists to Olenivka after Ukrainian military attac
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 1 (ANI): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday said that it is ready to deploy specialists to the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) town of Olenivka in the Donbas region where 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed after the Ukrainian mil
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Russia invites UN, Red Cross to probe shelling of Olenivka pre-trial deten
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 31 (ANI): Russia has invited experts from the United Nations and the Red Cross to participate in the investigation into the Ukrainian military attack on a pre-trial detention centre near Olenivka in the Donbas region with HIMARS rocket systems which killed 53 Ukrainian
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UK provides 2.5 million euros lifesaving support to Afghans after devastat
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], June 26 (ANI): UK is providing 2.5 million euros aid for immediate life-saving support to people in Afghanistan affected by the devastating earthquake this week, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced.
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Cuba hotel explosion death toll rises to 32, 19 missing: Reports
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Havana [Cuba], May 7 (ANI/Sputnik): The death toll from the gas explosion at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana has risen to 32, with 19 people missing, news agency Prensa Latina reported on Saturday, citing Gloria Bonnin, the provincial head of the family reconnection front of the Red Cross.
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Telangana governor extends greeting to people ahead of World Red Cross Day
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Karnataka) [India], May 7 (ANI): Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan extended her warmest greetings to all the Red Cross Volunteers in the state and the all over the world on the occasion of World Red Cross Day on Sunday.
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About 300 civilians may remain on territory of Azovstal plant in Mariupol:
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Mariupol [Ukraine], May 1 (ANI/Sputnik): About 300 civilians may remain on the territory adjacent to the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where the remaining Ukrainian forces have been hiding since the takeover of the port city by the Russian troops, a resident evacuated from the territory
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Afghanistan: PM orders probe into rising number of beggars on Kabul roads
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 21 (ANI): Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund held a cabinet meeting with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office as the number of beggars is rising in Kabul.
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ICRC ramps up humanitarian operations in Africa amid food security crisis
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 5 (ANI/Xinhua): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday it is ramping up humanitarian operations in ten African countries to support an additional 2.8 million people facing a food security crisis.
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ICRC willing to facilitate evacuation via humanitarian corridors in Ukrain
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia] March 22 (ANI/Sputnik): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is eager to work on establishing humanitarian corridors in Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian military operation, ICRC President Peter Maurer said in an interview with Sputnik.
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Russia-Ukraine conflict: Second attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupo
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 6 (ANI): International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that the second attempt to evacuate 200,000 civilians stranded in Mariupol in Ukraine was again failed and added that the parties involved in the ceasefire agreement need to agree not just in principle
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