It is the second time that the Real and Portugal striker has contributed to the International Committee of the Red Cross's network of seven orthopedic centers in Afghanistan. ...
10:25 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Damascus: Syria's 16-month bloodbath crossed an important symbolic threshold on Sunday as the international Red Cross formally declared the conflict a civil war, a status with implications for potential war crimes prosecutions. The Red Cross statement came as UN observers gathered new details on what happened in a village where dozens were reported killed in a regime assault. After a second visit to Tremseh on Sunday, the team said Syrian...
07:56 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Chennai: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said in its report for the year 2011 that it had been in search of 15,780 persons reported missing from the war-affected Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Out of the 15,780, 751 were women. The actual number of missing persons from the war zone, according to the Red Cross, could well be much more because the figure of 15,780 related...
01:45 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Kampala: Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda, killing scores of people but possibly hundreds, officials said on Monday. Disaster Preparedness Minister Stephen Mallinga said it was still too early to say how many had been killed in this afternoon's landslides, but officials from Bududa said the final death toll would likely be in the hundreds. "We are sending...
10:49 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Quetta: The beheaded body of a kidnapped British doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was found by the roadside on Sunday in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta, police and Red Cross officials said. Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was abducted by suspected militants on January 5 while on his way home from work. "The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms this barbaric act," ICRC Director-General...
10:22 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Over 90 people were killed in Homs on Friday as President Bashar al Assad's forces shelled the city for the 21st day. ...
08:16 AM, Feb 25, 2012
With no end to the violence, food and medicine supplies are running alarmingly low in Syria. ...
08:10 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Beirut: Food and water are running dangerously low in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, with frantic cries for help from residents amid government shelling that pounded rebel strongholds and killed at least 30 people on Tuesday, activists said. Shells reportedly rained down on rebellious districts at a rate of 10 per minute at one point and the Red Cross called for a daily two-hour cease-fire so that it can...
04:56 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Cagayan De Oro: Rescuers searched for more than 800 people missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing more than 650 people in areas ill-prepared to cope with storms. Cagayan de Oro and nearby Iligan cities on Mindanao island were worst hit when Typhoon Washi slammed ashore while people slept late on Friday and early Saturday, sending...
04:07 PM, Dec 18, 2011
Lagos: More than 100 died in a series of attacks in northeast Nigeria launched by a radical Muslim sect, a Nigerian Red Cross official said on Sunday, as sect gunmen shot and killed another police officer. Ibrahim Bulama told he expected the number of dead to rise as local clinics and hospitals tabulate the casualty figures from the attacks on Friday in Damaturu, the capital of rural Yobe state. While...
08:03 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Libya: Bullet-ridden cars carrying terrified, ill and hungry civilians crawled out of Muammar Gaddafi's hometown on Tuesday as anti-Gaddafi fighters said they were planning a final attack. Government forces who had for three weeks been pinned down by artillery and rocket fire on the eastern edges of Sirte were able to advance several kilometers (miles) into the city on Monday, capturing the southern district of Bouhadi. Commanders of forces loyal...
12:50 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Tripoli: A Red Cross team arrived in rebel-held Misrata on Saturday to assess the situation in the besieged western Libyan city. Aid groups have described an increasingly desperate situation for many trapped civilians in Misrata, with few areas safe from the daily bombardment by government forces and growing needs of food and medical supplies. Both the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a Libyan government spokesman in...
11:19 PM, Apr 16, 2011
Washington: News of the magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan Friday, generating a 10-metre-high tsunami, sent millions of people around the world online in search of information and ways to help. On Twitter and Facebook, millions of people reached out for news on the historic devastation, while others simply sent prayers and good wishes for the victims. The Google search engine, normally placid even after major events, displayed a...
10:48 AM, Mar 12, 2011
Islamabad: Over four million Pakistanis are still homeless, six months after massive floods devastated the country, the Red Cross has said. Many are returning to their homes to discover these are no longer inhabitable. "Six months on from the devastating flooding in Pakistan, more than four million people remain in a desperate situation without adequate shelter," The News International reported on Saturday quoting a statement by the International Federation of...
10:59 AM, Jan 22, 2011
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They include some 400,000 people left homeless after fleeing ethnic clashes in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad. ...
11:26 AM, Jun 19, 2010
Obama made digital history by becoming the first commander-in-chief to tweet. ...
08:15 PM, Jan 19, 2010
London: The cricket officials in India have been urged by the new editor of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack to abandon the self-interest of the few and concentrate instead upon improving their team's Test results. India is cricket's financial powerhouse, with the passionate following for the sport in the world's second most populous nation making its broadcast and commercial rights the most valuable in the game. As a result, India is...
02:26 AM, May 11, 2008
Chennai: England off-spinner Graeme Swann termed the lengthy ICC schedule as "ludicrous" but refused to use it as an excuse for their poor show in the tournament so far. "Most of the other teams in the world shared the ludicrous schedule that we did. We can't say that we were singled out. Although it's not an excuse for not doing well. We are all fit enought to get on with...
11:15 PM, Jan 01, 2008
Mumbai: Tournament director Ratnakar Shetty on Tuesday said all the 13 venues for the cricket World Cup, beginning February 19, will be ready in time. With the World Cup - being co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - just 25 days away, the preparedness of the venues in India and Sri Lanka has come under the scanner with redevelopment of some of the grounds failing to meet the deadline....
11:57 PM, Dec 03, 2007
Centurion: South African captain Graeme Smith has set his eyes on the cricket World Cup next month and said that an ODI series victory over India on Sunday would boost his side's morale in the quadrennial showpiece event in the subcontinent. Obviously we'd love to finish the series strong tomorrow and freshen up for World Cup, which is going to be six weeks of having to be in your best....
02:57 PM, Dec 03, 2007
