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More than 100 people killed in air strike by Saudi-led military coalition on detention centre in Yemen, says ICRC

Fighting since 2015 has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and sparked what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis

Bus carrying children attacked in Yemen's Saada leave dozens dead, many injured; Saudi-led coalition blamed

The Huthi rebels' Al Masirah TV reported that 39 people had been killed and 51 wounded, "mostly children". It accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Shiite rebels on the side of the government of hitting the bus in an air strike.

Red Cross says aid convoy successfully enters Syria's battered Eastern Ghouta, additional supplies to be sent next week

An aid convoy entered Syria's battered Eastern Ghouta Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, after a previous delivery was cut short by bombardment of the rebel enclave

Yemen cholera crisis: WHO urges country to accept vaccines to contain epidemic which has claimed 2,000 lives

Yemen, where a multinational conflict has caused a humanitarian crisis, had asked the UN health agency earlier this year for doses of the vaccine and later changed its mind

Yemen cholera outbreak: Death toll rises to 1,800; Red Cross warns over 6,00,000 may be affected in 2017

More than 600,000 people are expected to contract cholera in Yemen this year, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Sunday

Somalia humanitarian crisis: Red Cross seeks $92 mn as aid to tackle unfolding situation

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday appealed for $92 million to alleviate the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Somalia.

Syria: Efforts to evacuate last rebel-held areas in Aleppo underway

Efforts to evacuate the last rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo were underway on Thursday, with opposition fighters and civilians preparing to leave the city after years of fighting.

Google and Facebook join Red Cross to find thousands missing after Nepal earthquake

German development worker Caroline Siebald and her boyfriend Charles Gertler, an American glaciologist, were on a rafting trip in Nepal when the earthquake struck and initially panicked about how to let their families know they were safe.

Russian trucks with humanitarian relief leave for Ukraine

It was unclear whether the trucks would cross the border into that province, where much of the frontier remains under separatist control.

Syria: Gunmen kidnap 7 Red Cross workers

Gunmen abducted six Red Cross workers and a Syrian Red Crescent volunteer after stopping their convoy early Sunday in northwestern Syria, a spokesman said, in the latest high-profile kidnapping in the country's civil war.