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Red Cross eyes digital emblem for cyberspace protection

Geneva (AFP) - When Red Cross staff work in conflict zones, their recognisable red-on-white emblems signal that they and those they are helping should not be targeted.

AFP

Google ad business funds disinformation

The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable

Salon

Hanging washing over the rubble: life in Mykolaiv as Russian bombs rain down

Residents forced to adjust to terrifying new normal in southern Ukrainian port city, with near-daily strikes

The Guardian - UK

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Ukrainian accommodation issue exposes our deeper housing crisis, Irish Red Cross chief

Two weeks ago, 43 people were left with nowhere to sleep as the State ran out of accommodation

Irish Mirror

'Quiet diplomacy' questions after NZ couple released from Iran

News of a NZ couple's release from detention has been welcomed - but was a media blackout necessary?

Newsroom.co.nz

‘I prayed to God to find him’: the families scattered by violence in DRC

Hundreds of children have been separated from their parents and guardians as people flee rebel attacks on eastern parts of the country

The Guardian - UK

Six found dead in suspected murder-suicide before raging flat fire in Wisconsin

Hartland Police Chief, Torin Misko, confirmed that six people had died in the fire, with reports of the fatalities sustaining gunshot wounds, including one that was self inflicted

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There are only 100 Anti-D plasma donors in Australia, but their antibodies save thousands of babies each year

After nearly dying in a car crash and receiving blood transfusions, Sam Ryan's blood developed Anti-D antibodies that can prevent the potentially fatal Haemolytic disease of a fetus or newborn baby.

ABC News

Russian official says 'practical' issues delay visit to POWs

A Russian diplomat says the International Committee of the Red Cross has conducted at least five visits to Ukrainian prisoners of war since Russia invaded Ukraine

The Independent UK

US will give $2m to Cuba in emergency relief funding for Hurricane Ian victims

The money will be used in work with independent organizations like the Red Cross and not go through the Cuban government

The Guardian - US

Bucs’ Joe Tryon-Shoyinka helps lift up single parent families

TAMPA, Fla. — Joe Tryon-Shoyinka steered the Toyota sedan slowly and parked it just a few feet from Kenitra Lofton, a single mom in Hillsborough County with six children who tearfully took the keys from the Bucs linebacker.

Tribune News Service

To Fight Ebola, Uganda Closes Two Regions And Bars Funerals

While mines stay open, bars and churches and others without political connections have been closed by government order.

Zenger

Red Cross frustrated by lack of access to PoWs in Russian-occupied Donetsk

ICRC responds to criticism from Zelenskiy, saying it is being refused entry to Olenivka prison

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine ‘liberates 600 settlements in a month’ as Russia announces Kherson evacuation

The scale of Ukraine’s recaptured territory was revealed as residents in Kherson — one of four regions illegally annexed by Russia last month — were urged to evacuate

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Reuters

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Red Cross inactive on prisoners of war

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday accused the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of inaction in upholding the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war and urged it to undertake a mission to a camp in the Russian-occupied east of the country.

AFP

Russians search for Jewish roots to flee draft

Moscow (AFP) - At a Red Cross centre in Moscow, a dark-haired woman nervously holds a phone to her ear, trying to dig out details on her Jewish roots to help her son flee President Vladimir Putin's drive to mobilise troops to fight in Ukraine.

The Street

Aid Organizations Cease Ukraine Operations After Missile Strikes

The Red Cross and the Norwegian Refugee Council have paused operations amid fresh strikes on the capital.

AFP

Heatwaves will make regions uninhabitable within decades: UN, Red Cross

Geneva (AFP) - Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday.

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Reuters

Escalation of violence in Ukraine disrupts aid work

The United Nations and other aid organisations in Ukraine said on Monday that Russia firing missiles at cities across the country had disrupted their humanitarian work on the ground.

Reuters

Venezuela floods kill at least 25 after heavy rains

At least 25 people died and 52 were missing after five small rivers in central Venezuela flooded due to heavy rains, Citizen Security Vice President Remigio Ceballos said Sunday evening in a televised address.

Radio France Internationale

Survivors sue Liberian government over failure to track down civil war killers

Survivors of a massacre during Liberia’s civil war have sued the government in Monrovia for its failure to address wartime atrocities. The administration of President George Weah is under pressure to implement a report setting guidelines on bringing wartime criminals to justice.

ABC News

Red Cross volunteer Sean Moran returns to Wollongong after four months in Ukraine

Sean Moran is experiencing "reverse culture shock" back home after spending four months assisting with repairs to parts of Ukraine's water, sewerage and heating networks.

Tribune News Service

Want to help? Hurricane Ian causes blood shortage in Southeast

RALEIGH, N.C. — Hurricane Ian has hampered blood collection throughout the Southeast, and agencies say they’re hoping people will come out to donate once the storm has passed.

ABC News

Plane crash simulation tests emergency responders in Mildura Airport emergency scenario

With sirens blaring, two hundred people rushed to Mildura Airport's runway this week but there was no cause for alarm.

Al Jazeera

Where is Hurricane Ian now headed and how to prepare for it?

Ian makes landfall in US state of Florida as ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 4 hurricane after leaving Cuba in the dark.

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