World & Nation
The International Red Cross added the Muslim crescent to its title, prompting a dissent from Israel.
Oct. 28, 1986
Reports out of the Gulf show lots of work ahead: It is the International Red Cross movement that must attend to the treatment and needs of prisoners of the war and of the war-impacted civilian populations in Kuwait and Iraq.
March 9, 1991
Southern California chapters of the American Red Cross will join Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world in observing Tuesday as World Red Cross Day.
May 6, 1990
The international Red Cross conference has ended on a conciliatory note, a week after the ouster of South Africa’s government delegation prompted Western protests and warnings of grave consequences for the humanitarian movement.
Nov. 2, 1986
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva had harsh words for an article in a magazine associated with the Palestine Liberation Organization that endorsed the view that the Holocaust never happened.
Dec. 18, 1990
A new Red Cross emblem was accepted at an international conference, paving the way for Israel to join the humanitarian movement after nearly six decades of exclusion.
Dec. 8, 2005
The United Nations suspended humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria after an attack killed 21 civilians unloading supplies west of embattled Aleppo at the end of the weeklong cease-fire, officials said Tuesday.
Sept. 20, 2016
Red Cross volunteers distributed the first shipment of badly needed emergency supplies in Venezuela on Tuesday after months of feuding between the government, which has denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis, and opponents who have been seeking to use the delivery of aid to force President Nicolas Maduro from power.
April 16, 2019
Swap for Palestinian prisoners is part of a four-day truce that was expected to begin Thursday. Aid groups say they are ready to send supplies to the Gaza Strip.
Nov. 22, 2023
The Nigerian air force accidentally bombed a camp for displaced people Tuesday, killing at least 52 in what the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders called a “shocking and unacceptable” tragedy.
Jan. 17, 2017