Move over, e-mail. The virtual greeting just won't cut it this holiday season, as the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowles have teamed up for the thir...
Newsweek | Posted 10.24.2009 | World
NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke to Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week. Excerpts: WEYMOUTH: What did you think of the Goldstone report? NETANYAHU: I tho...
Art Agnos | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
When a disaster hits, it is too late to put your best people in charge of planning and preparation. That's not the place for soft political patronage.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment
Russell: "Nobody here is playing the game." No, Russ, nobody is playing your crazy version of the game. That's like Norman Bates at a motel owner's association meeting, complaining no one else is murdering guests.
Piers Fawkes | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
Typhoon Ondoy was a tragedy. Hundreds have died in the Philippines. But without the rapid-response heroism of ordinary Filipino citizens enabled by technology, it could have been much worse.
American Red Cross | Posted 09.28.2009 | Impact
ATLANTA - The American Red Cross began client casework today as preliminary damage assessment shows that nearly 2,000 homes have been affected by floo...
NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Chicago
Friends of missing hiker David Gimelfarb claim that a report out of Costa Rica that says his body was spotted in a crater lake in the rainforest is fa...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
A country's leading newspaper publishes a lurid attack, and no-one less than the Foreign Minister invokes 'freedom of speech' to protect the newspaper and its reporter. Iran? No. Sweden.
Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
In order to learn more about the mysterious "prolonged diapering" technique formerly employed by the CIA -- possibly the technique nebulously referred...
Jim Luce | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
Bekele Geleta grew up in Ethiopia where he developed a strong understanding of the critical role of Red Cross Red Crescent principles, such as neutrality in matters of politics and religion.
Mail And Guardian | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
The cholera infection rate in Zimbabwe is nearing the 100 000 mark in Africa's worst outbreak in 15 years, aid agencies said on Tuesday. ...
Washington Post | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that its workers have been barred from the country's largest refugee camp and cannot distri...
AP | KRISHAN FRANCIS | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Thousands of civilians waded across a vast lagoon under a hail of rebel gunfire Thursday, breaking out of Sri Lanka's war z...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
President Obama, speaking this afternoon, made a direct statement to both the Tamil Tigers as well as the Sri Lankan government regarding the enduring...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
The Bush torture memos pale in comparison to the leaked report issued by the Red Cross following two rounds of private interviews with the 14 "high value detainees" held at Guantanamo Bay.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
As rage spreads in Afghanistan after US bombing that killed up to 130 people, unnamed Pentagon officials are spinning another cover-up. Defiant Obama moves ahead with troop increase.
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and LARA JAKES | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
KABUL — Villagers dug dirt graves Wednesday to bury what the international Red Cross said were dozens of Afghans _ including women and children ...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.
WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
* Scroll down for video and audio. The Red Cross is warning of a catastrophe as the Sri Lankan government launches a "final" assault against the r...
Scott Atran | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics
The restoration of our reputation and standing in the world requires more than just a restatement of principles. It requires that those who violate those principles be brought to justice.
Raw Story | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
A powerful Democrat has added his voice to those calling for a federal investigation into reports of torture at Guantanamo Bay and at black site priso...
Washington Post | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
The International Committee of the Red Cross's blistering, confidential 2007 report on the CIA's secret prisons is now available online, Web-published...
Washington Post | Joby Warrick and Julie Tate | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
Medical officers who oversaw interrogations of terrorism suspects in CIA secret prisons committed gross violations of medical ethics and in some cases...
Reuters | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
Soaring violence in Somalia and Afghanistan helped make 2008 the most dangerous year on record for aid workers, with 122 killed while carrying out the...
Posted 11.03.2009 | Impact