Red Cross

Gaza

Hamas releases four Israeli hostages in exchange for 200 Palestinians

Israeli authorities said they released 200 Palestinian prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire deal, hours after four Israeli soldiers were released.

25/01/2025

Europe News

More than 180 migrants arrive in Spain's Canary Islands

The latest arrivals in 2025 add to growing concerns about the uptick in irregular migration to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago close to the African coast that has increasingly been used as a stepping stone to continental Europe.

04/01/2025

Belarus

More Ukrainian children from Russia-held regions arrive in Belarus

Russia's displacement of Ukrainian children from areas it has captured includes moving them across borders without their parents.

28/12/2023

Israel

Euroviews. The Red Cross is failing Jews again

We, whose people were decimated in the Holocaust, and who watched as our people were butchered and dragged off to hell, look to the ICRC to do the right thing. In our eyes, this might be your last chance, Robert Singer writes.

08/12/2023

World News

Nagorno-Karabakh: Leaders to meet next month in Spain for peace talks

Nikol Pashinian and Ilham Aliyev will meet 5 October in the Spanish city of Granada, the Armenian Security Council informed Sunday.

23/09/2023

No Comment

Norway jet suit demonstration

For the British-born entrepreneur and inventor Richard Browning, the jet suit started like a crazy idea. Now he is in Norway, for the first time ever to test his new jet suit in Norwegian rough, mountainous terrain.

26/06/2023

Ukraine

Ukraine war: Ten key developments to know about from the weekend

These are the latest developments in the Ukraine war you need to know about from the weekend.

14/10/2022

No Comment

Red Cross responds to the most urgent needs in Mariupol

Food and hygiene items were among the aid distributed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to the more than 4,000 people living in shelters in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 2.

04/03/2022

Tech News

Tech this week: France authorises drones for police use

Despite privacy concerns, France’s Constitutional Court has given police drones the green light and Twitter hops on the NFT trend.

23/01/2022

Yemen

Dozens killed and injured in airstrikes on Yemeni cities

An airstrike on the port city of Hodeida has wiped out internet services across Yemen.

21/01/2022

Switzerland

Red Cross' cyber attack exposes data of 515,000 vulnerable people

“An attack on the data of people who are missing makes the anguish and suffering for families even more difficult to endure,” Robert Mardini, the ICRC's director-general, said in a statement.

21/01/2022

Climate

Why are people on the frontlines of the climate crisis not at COP26?

Negotiations around money for the impacts of climate change need to involve the voices of those facing disaster right now.

12/11/2021

Ethiopia

Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region is on the verge of a humanitaria

It estimates that around 3.8 million of the roughly six million people there, are in desperate need of assistance. Without urgent action tens of thousands of people could starve to death.

10/02/2021

Croatia

Mobile homes arrive in Croatia to shelter residents after earthquake

Central Croatia continued to experience tremors on Thursday morning, as survivors tried to pick up the pieces from Tuesday's deadly earthquake.

31/12/2020

Europe News

Red cross sees surge in volunteers globally due to pandemic, but drop

There has been a massive surge in Red Cross volunteer numbers worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but in Belgium the amount has dropped.

24/12/2020

Czech Republic

Meet the Czech volunteers helping out in hospitals amid COVID-19 surge

Hundreds of Czechs are in training to become healthcare volunteers as a new wave of COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm hospitals.

29/10/2020

World News

Covid-19 volunteers - the people helping others get through the crisis

The coronavirus pandemic has led to an army of volunteer across Europe helping the vulnerable cope with the crisis

29/03/2020

Switzerland

Davos: Climate change increasingly a concern in humanitarian work

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross spoke to Euronews at Davos on adapting to climate change.

22/01/2020

Switzerland

What are the Geneva Conventions and what do they mean in modern war?

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the agreement of the fourth and final Geneva Convention following an 85-year process of defining the rules of war

12/08/2019

Belgium

Michelin Star Chefs cook for homeless in Belgium

The meals are being served at the Place de la Monnaie in Brussels to those in need of a hot meal as part of a Red Cross winter initiative.

03/11/2018