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Red Cross visits POWs held by Russia and Ukraine, commends progress

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) gained access to both Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war last week and more visits are planned in what it described in a Thursday statement as "important progress".

Reuters

Rocky Bay set to reopen Lady Lawley Cottage, providing respite for children with disabilities

Lady Lawley Cottage in Perth's western suburbs will reopen and start offering early intervention and therapy services from April.

ABC News

‘Deep concern’ as thousands face cold snap without gas

Sheffield City Council has declared a major incident after around 2,000 homes lost gas after the network was flooded by water

The Independent UK

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Anti-vaxxer nurse who jabbed 9,000 with saline instead of Covid vaccine spared jail

Red Cross nurse Antje T. jabbed up to 8,600 elderly patients with what she told them was the life-saving Pfizer vaccine at the Schortens jab centre in Friesland, Germany

Daily Mirror

A woman documented her distressing 16 hour wait in A&E with her seriously ill mum

"A man has just been shouted at for peeing in a bin. He doesn’t care"

Wales Online

Nigeria stowaways who survived 11 days on ship rudder ‘must return home’

The ship set sail from Lagos on 17 November

The Independent UK

Stowaways on tanker from Nigeria set for deportation from Spain

Two of three stowaways who were rescued in Spain's Canary Islands after enduring 11 days on the rudder of a fuel tanker from Nigeria have been returned to the ship with the aim of deporting them.

Reuters

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Red Cross: Afghans Will Struggle for Their Lives This Winter

More Afghans will be struggling for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year ahead, a top official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said in an interview, as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule. The group’s seizure of power in August 2021 sent…

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Red Cross: Afghans will struggle for their lives this winter

A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions

The Independent UK

Major declaration on use of explosives in built-up areas adopted in Dublin

The Irish-led declaration will require militaries to consider the impact of their actions on civilians in populated areas.

The Independent UK

Round Up Yr Best Old Clothes ‘Cos Uber Is Delivering Donations To Red Cross For Free This Sat

Now you have no excuse not to!

Pedestrian.tv

Google ad business funds disinformation

The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable

Salon

Hanging washing over the rubble: life in Mykolaiv as Russian bombs rain down

Residents forced to adjust to terrifying new normal in southern Ukrainian port city, with near-daily strikes

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainian accommodation issue exposes our deeper housing crisis, Irish Red Cross chief

Two weeks ago, 43 people were left with nowhere to sleep as the State ran out of accommodation

Irish Mirror

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'Quiet diplomacy' questions after NZ couple released from Iran

News of a NZ couple's release from detention has been welcomed - but was a media blackout necessary?

The Guardian - UK

‘I prayed to God to find him’: the families scattered by violence in DRC

Hundreds of children have been separated from their parents and guardians as people flee rebel attacks on eastern parts of the country

Daily Mirror

Six found dead in suspected murder-suicide before raging flat fire in Wisconsin

Hartland Police Chief, Torin Misko, confirmed that six people had died in the fire, with reports of the fatalities sustaining gunshot wounds, including one that was self inflicted

ABC News

There are only 100 Anti-D plasma donors in Australia, but their antibodies save thousands of babies each year

After nearly dying in a car crash and receiving blood transfusions, Sam Ryan's blood developed Anti-D antibodies that can prevent the potentially fatal Haemolytic disease of a fetus or newborn baby.

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The Independent UK

Russian official says 'practical' issues delay visit to POWs

A Russian diplomat says the International Committee of the Red Cross has conducted at least five visits to Ukrainian prisoners of war since Russia invaded Ukraine

The Guardian - US

US will give $2m to Cuba in emergency relief funding for Hurricane Ian victims

The money will be used in work with independent organizations like the Red Cross and not go through the Cuban government

Tribune News Service

Bucs’ Joe Tryon-Shoyinka helps lift up single parent families

TAMPA, Fla. — Joe Tryon-Shoyinka steered the Toyota sedan slowly and parked it just a few feet from Kenitra Lofton, a single mom in Hillsborough County with six children who tearfully took the keys from the Bucs linebacker.

Zenger

To Fight Ebola, Uganda Closes Two Regions And Bars Funerals

While mines stay open, bars and churches and others without political connections have been closed by government order.

The Guardian - UK

Red Cross frustrated by lack of access to PoWs in Russian-occupied Donetsk

ICRC responds to criticism from Zelenskiy, saying it is being refused entry to Olenivka prison

Evening Standard

Ukraine ‘liberates 600 settlements in a month’ as Russia announces Kherson evacuation

The scale of Ukraine’s recaptured territory was revealed as residents in Kherson — one of four regions illegally annexed by Russia last month — were urged to evacuate

Reuters

Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Red Cross inactive on prisoners of war

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday accused the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of inaction in upholding the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war and urged it to undertake a mission to a camp in the Russian-occupied east of the country.

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