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Ukraine appeal: Do what you can to bring urgent aid by donating today

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Evening Standard

Red Cross seeks funds for Ukraine aid, access to detainees

Red Cross agencies appealed on Tuesday for 250 million Swiss francs ($273 million) to provide food, water and shelter to millions of people in Ukraine where the humanitarian situation is "deteriorating rapidly" and to those who have fled abroad.

Reuters

Cryptocurrency companies make cash donations and waive trading fees to help people in Ukraine

Crypto.com announced a one million dollar donation to The Red Cross over the weekend.

Daily Record

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Climate emergency a ‘national security’ concern, says Red Cross

On eve of alarming IPCC report, organisation warns governments to treat crisis on a par with war and peace

The Guardian - UK

Paralysed banking system pushing Afghanistan towards collapse - Red Cross

Afghanistan is inching closer towards economic collapse six months after the Taliban seized power, the Red Cross said on Friday, with a paralysed banking system stymieing international efforts to get financial aid into the war-ravaged country.

Reuters

Red Cross sets up international aid supply network for Ukraine

The international Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is setting up a logistics hub in Budapest to bring aid supplies to Ukraine following Russia's invasion, and is making preparations for an influx of refugees, the German Red Cross said on Friday.

Reuters

U.N., Red Cross call for protecting civilians, vital structures in Ukraine

Civilians and critical infrastructure such as water and power systems in Ukraine must be protected from attacks in line with the rules of war, United Nations and Red Cross officials said on Thursday as aid agencies struggled to assess damage from Russia's attack.

Reuters

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Red Cross expanding bushfire recovery work

The Red Cross is expanding its bushfire recovery work into new areas across NSW, QLD, Victoria and SA, focusing on bringing communities together to heal.

AAP

Cindy Wockner: If only there were more great hearts and spirits in this world like ‘Detta’ Gleeson

Afghanistan, Lebanon, Africa, Libya – this was Australian nurse Bernadette 'Detta' Gleeson's turf with the Red Cross. The world is poorer for her passing.

The New Daily

Arab Coalition Refutes Houthi Allegations Regarding Saada Prison

The Saudi-led Arab Coalition will meet on Tuesday with the UN and Red Cross to examine Houthi claims that it targeted a detention center in the Yemeni province of Saada with air strikes. The Coalition clarified that it had officially invited both the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Red Cross flags dire conditions in east Ukraine as tensions flare anew with Russia

Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Ukraine are living in dire conditions, with poor access to basic services and under constant threat from shelling and landmines, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, amid escalating tensions between Kyiv and Moscow.

Reuters

British Leukemia Patient Finds Rare Match In Austrian Stem-Cell Donor

In an amazing one-in-500,000 donor match, an Austrian man may have saved a woman's life.

Zenger

Relief efforts ramp up in Tonga, more aid arrives

Humanitarian aid to Tonga is ramping up after the airport was cleared of ash, making it safe for planes to land, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, days after a volcanic eruption and tsunami devastated the South Pacific archipelago.

Reuters

Typhoon Rai wrecked 1.5 million houses in the Philippines: Report

Red Cross says as much as $22 million is needed to support more than 400,000 people over the next 24 months.

Al Jazeera

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Tonga Struggles with Ash, Psychological Trauma after Eruption and Tsunami

Families have stopped children playing outside as Tonga struggles to deal with ash and the psychological fallout of last week's volcanic eruption and tsunami, aid workers and residents said. Communication with the outside world remained difficult on Sunday, with few internet services, and outlying islands still cut off from the…

The Independent UK

Red Cross: Yemen prison airstrike killed, injured over 100

A spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen says there have been “over 100 detainees killed and injured” in a Saudi-led airstrike on a prison in the country’s rebel-held north

The Independent UK

Data of ‘highly vulnerable’ war victims compromised in massive Red Cross cyber attack

Compromised data originated from at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies around world

The Independent UK

Red Cross: Hack exposes data on 515,000 vulnerable people

The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people

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The Independent UK

Three of Tonga's smaller islands badly damaged by tsunami

Three of Tonga’s smaller islands have suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross say, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific archipelago nation

ABC News

Red Cross to change rules to allow blood donations sooner after having COVID-19

Facing blood shortages, the Red Cross is changing the rules about how quickly you can donate after having COVID-19.

The Guardian - AU

Australia records 77 deaths on deadliest day of pandemic; national medical stockpile activated – as it happened

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