Topic: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

US House passes Haiti quake aid bill

The US House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to boost charitable donations to victims of the Haiti earthquake, including a hugely successful Red Cross text-message appeal.The bill, modeled after a similar measure that bolstered giving after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, ...
Four Iraqi prisoners from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have been handed over to the authorities in Baghdad, a Red Cross official told AFP on Monday. "ICRC was informed by the American authorities of the transfer of four ...
Stacks of charred bricks, blackened shells of cars and burned tree trunks were all that remained Monday in much of the community some residents once called the " Twisted metal foundations and pipes are all that is left of many homes.The fire ...
Accused by a Democrat in the U.S. Congress of "airbrushing history," Google said it has now replaced pre-Hurricane Katrina satellite images of the Gulf Coast region with more recent aerial photographs. Google on Sunday said it had no intention of "rewriting history" ...