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A Ukrainian city struggles after Russian forces blew up its water supply

Russian missiles ruptured Mykolaiv's pipelines. They stretch across territory under Russian control, making it impossible for municipal workers to repair them. With winter coming, worries are rising.

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GCC Confirms Importance of Enhancing Joint Cooperation with ICRC

Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr.

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The 'mistaken perception' of the Red Cross

The Red Cross has rapidly ramped up its response to new levels in Ukraine but its role is still misunderstood by many, Jo Moir reports.

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U.S. accuses Russia of war crime by forcibly deporting Ukrainians

The United States accused Moscow of committing a war crime on Wednesday by forcibly deporting Ukrainians to Russia and said it has information that Russian officials are overseeing so-called filtration operations.

Reuters

Red Cross denied access to prisoners at Russian-held Olenivka despite 'intense' talks -ICRC chief

Red Cross officials have failed to secure access to Ukrainian prisoners of war held in the Russian-controlled town of Olenivka where dozens were killed in an attack in July, the head of the international aid group said on Thursday.

Reuters

ICRC: Floods Caused Havoc in Yemen

Weeks of exceptionally heavy seasonal rains and floods have caused havoc across Yemen, killing dozens of people and destroying homes, agricultural land, roads and vital infrastructure, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a report on Wednesday. The floods have also moved unexploded ordnance to residential and…

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Resume aid to Taliban-run Afghanistan, Red Cross urges

The Red Cross on Monday appealed to states and donors to set aside their political objections to the Taliban and resume aid flows to Afghanistan's state institutions to ease an "unbearable" humanitarian situation there.

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Relatives of POWs call on Red Cross to help find loved ones

Relatives of prisoners of war taken captive by Russia after the fall of Azovstal steel plant are calling for answers a week on from a prison attack in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that reportedly killed dozens

The Independent UK

Ukrainian officials press for information on prison attack

Ukrainian officials say they are struggling to establish the truth surrounding an explosion that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured by the Russians following the fall of Mariupol

The Independent UK

Red Cross renews appeal to visit site of Ukrainian POW attack

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not yet received permission to visit the site of Friday's attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war, it said on Sunday, condemning the incident at the Olenivka facility.

Reuters

Zelensky Urges Evacuation of Ukraine's Frontline Donetsk

Ukraine's president urged civilians on Saturday to evacuate the frontline Donetsk region, the scene of fierce clashes with the Russian military, as Kyiv called on the Red Cross and UN to gain access to its soldiers being held by Moscow's forces. The eastern Donetsk region has faced the brunt of…

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Ukraine: Zelensky calls for mass evacuation from the Donetsk region

‘The more people leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill’

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PoW families wait for news following Donetsk prison attack that killed 50

Wives of prisoners unsure whether loved ones survived blast in Olenivka as Russia and Ukraine blame each other

The Guardian - UK

Yemen’s Ancient Honey Production a Victim of War, Climate Change

For Yemeni beekeeper Mohammed Saif, honey production used to be a lucrative business but years of war and climate change have taken the buzz out of the family hives. The business, handed down from father to son, "is slowly disappearing", Saif told AFP. "The bees are being hit by strange…

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Red Cross seeks access to site of deadly attack on Ukrainian POWs

Russia and Ukraine trade accusations after dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in Russian-occupied Donetsk.

Reuters

Red Cross offers to help evacuate wounded from Ukrainian POW attack

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seeking access to the site of a deadly attack on a facility holding Ukrainian prisoners of war and has offered to help evacuate the wounded, it said on Friday.

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Gangsters killed Maria’s sister in Honduras. A note on the door told her she was next …

Maria and her family were given help to start a new life in safety, but she is just one of a quarter of a million people in the country internally displaced by violence

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ICRC: Pockets of Famine-Like Conditions Return to Yemen

Pockets of famine-like conditions have returned to Yemen for the first time in two years in three Houthi-controlled governorates, an international report has revealed. There are nearly 50,000 people living in famine-like conditions in Hajjah, Amran, and al-Jawf, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) showed in a report…

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The Independent UK

Live updates | Ukraine says Russia presses offensive in east

The General Staff of the Ukrainian military says the Russian forces have continued attempts to press their offensive in several sections of the frontline in the east and also launched missile and air strikes at infrastructure facilities across the country

The Guardian - UK

‘I saw an oncologist cry’: Tigray cancer patients sent home to die for lack of drugs

Doctors call for international help as Ethiopia civil war leaves terminally ill being treated with paracetamol in Mekelle hospital

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What might happen to Ukraine’s Azovstal prisoners of war?

Attention now is turning to how the Mariupol POWs might be treated and what rights they have as prisoners of Russia.

The Independent UK

Hundreds more fighters surrender in Mariupol, Russia says

Measures being taken to evacuate Azovstal ‘heroes’, official claims

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: What might happen to 100s of Ukrainian POWs?

The Red Cross says it has registered “hundreds” of Ukrainians POWs who have left the giant Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol after holding out in a weeks-long standoff with besieging Russian forces

The Guardian - UK

Russia says 771 more Ukrainian troops ‘surrender’ at Mariupol steelworks

Injured soldiers being treated in hospital while 900 held in a former prison colony, according to Moscow

Reuters

Over half of Ukrainian fighters have left Azovstal, pro-Russian separatist says

More than half the Ukrainian fighters in the bunkers below the Azovstal steel plant have surrendered, the leader of the Russian-backed rebel Donetsk region said on Thursday, and the International Committee of the Red Cross is registering them.

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