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Humanitarian aid to Tonga is ramping up after the airport was cleared of ash, making it safe for planes to land, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, days after a volcanic eruption and tsunami devastated the South Pacific archipelago.

Red Cross says as much as $22 million is needed to support more than 400,000 people over the next 24 months.

Families have stopped children playing outside as Tonga struggles to deal with ash and the psychological fallout of last week's volcanic eruption and tsunami, aid workers and residents said. Communication with the outside world remained difficult on Sunday, with few internet services, and outlying islands still cut off from the…

A spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen says there have been “over 100 detainees killed and injured” in a Saudi-led airstrike on a prison in the country’s rebel-held north

Compromised data originated from at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies around world

The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers holding its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people

Three of Tonga’s smaller islands have suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross say, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific archipelago nation

Facing blood shortages, the Red Cross is changing the rules about how quickly you can donate after having COVID-19.

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