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Three kidnapped Red Cross workers freed in Yemen

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Yemeni tribesmen released three kidnapped employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the humanitarian agency and a Yemeni security source said on Thursday. Full story

Hundreds of armed groups hold swathes of north Syria: ICRC

GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's rebels are fragmented into hundreds of armed groups who control swathes of the north, while government forces appear to have consolidated their hold on the capital, a senior Red Cross official said on Monday. Full story

Red Cross urges swift evacuation of Syria's dead and wounded

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urged both sides in Syria's civil war on Monday to allow swift evacuation of the dead and wounded, many of them civilians, who often lie abandoned for days or months in intense urban fighting. Full story

Red Cross chief presses U.S. on Guantanamo hunger strike

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday expressed opposition to the force-feeding of prisoners staging a mass hunger strike at the Guantanamo prison camp and said he urged President Barack Obama to do more to resolve the "untenable" legal plight of Full story

Syria's humanitarian crisis worsening rapidly: Red Cross

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The humanitarian situation in Syria is worsening rapidly with some areas a landscape of "devastation and destruction", the Red Cross said on Thursday after a month which activists said was the bloodiest yet in the conflict. Full story

German Holocaust archive seeks new lease on life

BAD AROLSEN, Germany (Reuters) - George Jaunzemis was three and a half years old when, in the chaotic weeks at the end of World War Two, he was separated from his mother as she fled with him from Germany to Belgium. Full story

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