World & Nation
Emergencies: Skilled workers toil alongside those from richer nations at sites of earthquakes, refugee camps. For some missions, the country earns much-needed cash.
April 11, 1999
Relief: Private effort to start next week. Although cleared by NATO, operation will receive no support from alliance.
May 29, 1999
Famine in Africa: How to help
July 21, 2011
Men dug through rubble with their bare hands and shovels in western Afghanistan to try to save earthquake victims. More than 2,000 were reported dead.
Oct. 8, 2023
Disaster: Hundreds of schoolchildren marching in a holiday parade are buried under debris. Rescue teams await equipment needed to move 40-ton slabs of concrete.
Jan. 28, 2001
California
Celia Diaz’s agency helps bring ailing Americans stranded in Mexico back to the U.S. The San Diego grandmother may ruffle feathers, but she gets results.
Nov. 25, 2000
Turkish and international cave rescue experts are working to save an American speleologist trapped more than 3,200 feet deep inside a cave in Turkey.
Sept. 7, 2023
Louis Wiesner, 86, who brought health services to victims of war and natural disasters through his work with the International Rescue Committee, died Sept. 20 in Meredith, N.H.
Oct. 2, 2002
Disaster: County and city teams are unable to help in Turkey. Lack of federal contract precludes them from pitching in.
Aug. 24, 1999
Economics: International bailout efforts seem to be having an impact, but plenty of pitfalls remain.
Jan. 29, 1998