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Afghanistan: Physiotherapist who helped amputee patients is shot and killed, says ICRC
Lorena Enebral Perez, 38, a Spanish national, was in the ICRC’s rehabilitation centre in Mazar...
âUrgent needâ to prevent weapons falling into the wrong hands, says ICRC President
Speaking at the opening of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, ICRC Presi...
Early damage assessments from Hurricane Irma
An estimated 1.2 million people have been affected by Hurricane Irma and that could rise sharply to ...
Materials scientists probe a protein's role in speeding the spread of Ebola
Two Johns Hopkins University materials science graduate students and their professors have played a ...
Forty million people affected by flooding across Bangladesh, Nepal and India
UNHCR says that since the beginning of August severe monsoon rains have caused widespread flooding a...
Recovery after Hurricane Harvey expected to take years
Houston's recovery from Hurricane Harvey flooding will be a "multi-year project", Texas Governor Gre...
Predicting extreme fire weather using artificial intelligence
A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research describes a computat...
Urban floods intensifying while the countryside dries up
An exhaustive global analysis of rainfall and rivers shows signs of a radical shift in streamflow pa...
How PPE can lead to firefighter judgement errors
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is necessary for firefighter safety, but it is heavy, bulky, and...
Iraq: Aid enters West Mosul for first time
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is carrying out a major distribution of food and...
EENA calls on Apple to integrate Advanced Mobile Location technology
In June 2016, Google updated all Android smartphones in the world with Advanced Mobile Location (AML...
CRJ 12:4 published in September
Fake news, terrorist attack analysis, cybersecurity & ransomware, emergency & organisational...
Parliamentary inquiry into humanitarian standards in IED detection and disposal
UK Parliamentarians launch inquiry into humanitarian standards in detecting and disposing of improvi...
Inmarsat gets behind Team Rubicon to assist with emergency response efforts
Global satellite provider supplies NGO with satcoms and volunteers to enable faster, more co-ordinat...
Join Giles Duley at the Imperial War Museum and at Guardian Live Events as he promotes book to raise funds for UNHCR
In October 2015, Giles Duley was commissioned by the UNHCR to document the refugee crisis. Over...
Technology Pioneers announced by World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum has announced its 2017 class of Technology Pioneers, representing the world...
Twenty-four storey tower alight in London - update
The 24-storey Grenfell Tower in Kensington, West London, caught fire and was engulfed by flames in t...
The twelve key climate risks to international security
Security experts have identified 12 key climatic risks to international security that may shape the ...