The international Red Cross has made its first visit to Afghan prisoners held by the Taliban in the northwest of the country, the organization said Tuesday.
The Red Cross says they need $32 million to feed 220,000 Zimbabweans who cannot access hard currency in the collapsed economy.
Teamsters who work at American Red Cross blood services facilities in Philadelphia are on strike.
Sarah Palin is spending Thanksgiving with relatives in Washington state before resuming book signing over the weekend.
A global network of aid agencies on Wednesday called on governments to do more to reduce the impact natural disasters caused by climate change will have on poor countries.
A global network of aid agencies says world powers consider climate change the most significant challenge to humanitarian work.
Rose Percy has a long history with the American Red Cross. Complete with an extensive wardrobe and her own Tiffany jewelry, this 23-inch wax doll was first sold for $1,200 back in 1864 to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission — the precursor to one of best-known U.S. charities.
Camps for people uprooted by natural disasters or armed conflict inside their own country can stir envy among locals and become a recruiting ground for armed groups, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Thursday.
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has called for the "immediate and unconditional release" of two staff members kidnapped in the African countries of Chad and Darfur.
Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province.
Gunmen kidnapped a French staff member working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Sudan's western Darfur region on Thursday, the group said.
NFL players of Samoan background got an update from the U.S. government and the Red Cross Friday on recovery efforts in the tsunami-stricken Samoas.
Guinea's leader on Monday dismissed the French foreign minister's call for international intervention in the West African country after soldiers there opened fire on demonstrators last week, killing at least 57.
The international Red Cross says it has set up video links allowing Guantanamo Bay inmates to talk to their families and friends face-to-face.
The Red Cross says a search team in Costa Rica has resumed the hunt for a missing U.S. hiker after police spotted what may be a body floating in a crater lagoon.
The United Nations and the Red Cross warned Tuesday about an escalating conflict in northern Yemen between government forces and Shiite rebels that has already driven 120,000 people from their homes and is spreading to other provinces.
Four South Korean fishermen, whom Pyongyang detained for a month after they accidentally entered North Korean waters, returned home Saturday.
The U.S. military has quietly tightened its detention policy to require that the International Committee of the Red Cross be notified promptly of terror suspects held at a special camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan, a senior military officer said Saturday.
The Geneva Conventions on warfare have survived a difficult phase since the 2001 attacks on the United States followed by the U.S.-led war on terror, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday.
A look at major kidnappings in the southern Philippines attributed to the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf and other armed groups. Abu Sayyaf gunmen on Sunday freed the last of three international Red Cross workers they kidnapped last Jan. 15 on southern Jolo Island.
The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, the worst in Africa in more than 15 years, is slowing but is still expected to reach 100,000 cases this week, the Red Cross said Tuesday.
A suicide car bomber killed seven people and wounded 21 others Wednesday outside a U.S. military base in the same part of eastern Afghanistan where militants stormed government buildings a day earlier, police said.
Villagers dug dirt graves Wednesday to bury what the international Red Cross said were dozens of Afghans — including women and children — killed in American bombing runs. A former Afghan government official said up to 120 people may have died.
Calling civilian deaths unacceptable, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he would talk with President Barack Obama on Wednesday about allegations that dozens of civilians died in a U.S. bombing run in western Afghanistan, the president's office said.