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COLOMBO - The island’s western and southern regions experienced heavy rains with more than 100 millimetres dumped within about one hour on Sunday, an official at the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said. “The weather appears to be getting…

Cassie Majestic, MD Kristi L. Koenig, MDPhoto Credit: Tony Coppolino Fire Chief, Fountain Valley Fire Department University of California, IrvineCenter for Disaster Medical Sciences Wildfires are an annual expected disaster in Southern…

We link here below the new column from David Miliband, president and CEO fo International Rescue Commitee and former foreign secretary of the UK. There will be intensive brainstorming about the future of humanitarian action in the next two…

Red Cross teams working in close cooperation with the emergency management sector and local emergency headquarters have been helping evacuate the population affected by severe floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The region has…

Jessica Andrusaitis MS1Robert Katzer MD MBAUniversity of California, IrvineCenter for Disaster Medical Scienceshttp://www.cdms.uci.edu The University of California, Irvine Department…

Between April 21 and May 2, the Peruvian armed forces orchestrated the “Cooperation III” multinational military exercise, which was carried out in the coastal cities of Lima and Pisco. The goal was to prepare the Peruvian armed…

The Red Crescent publish on Facebook the last news on the disaster response to the recent explosion at a coal mine in #Soma, western Turkey. As operations to free those who are still trapped continue, 50…

(Reuters) - Rescuers pulled more dead and injured from a coal mine in western Turkey on Wednesday more than 12 hours after an explosion, bringing the death toll to 201 in the nation's worst mining disaster for decades. Hundreds more were…

Geneva/Kiev (ICRC) – In Donetsk last night, an ICRC staff member and eight volunteers from the Ukrainian Red Cross Society were taken away by a group of armed men and interrogated. All of them were released after a few hours. One…

Saying the road to recovery will be long, the International Federation of Red Cross, which includes the Philippine Red Cross, and Red Crescent Societies are now laying out a three-year recovery plan costing 320 million Swiss francs (P16…