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‘If someone told me this story, I wouldn’t believe it’

In 2018, Hassan Al Kontar was stranded in an airport for 7 months as his asylum claim was reviewed. Now, Hassan is once again in the news — this time for the ways he gives back to the country that took him in.

Fighting grips Philippine city

Fighting grips Philippine city Fighting between government forces and an armed group in the Philippine city of Marawi left large numbers of people displaced and in need of help. In the first week of the fighting in May, the ICRC and the Philippine Red Cross distributed food rations, addressed water and sanitation issues and provided household [...]

Atomic bomb survivors: it’s time to ban nuclear weapons

75 years after two atomic bombs almost entirely wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survivors such as Rieko Yamada won’t rest until the world is rid of nuclear weapons.