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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust’

By Martin Rubin

Miroslava Roznovjakova, left, and Ray Hayyat place sandbags in front of their store to guard against floodingThursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Hurricane Matthew continues to churn its way toward Florida's east coast. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

The Latest: East Carolina football team delayed in return

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Wisconsin volunteers headed south for hurricane help

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In this Monday, March 16, 2015, photo, clothes are seen laid out to dry as Adrian Banga surveys his destroyed house in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila. Aid has begun arriving in the storm-hit nation's capital following Cyclone Pam, but contact has still not been made with some of its more remote islands. (AP Photo/Dave Hunt, Pool)

Vanuatu avoids big casualties with shelter and early warning

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Drivers prepare to show the cargo to journalists in a field where the aid convoy is parked in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine: We destroyed Russian military incursion

By Alexander Roslyakov and Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Oklahoma’s Red Cross offering storm shelter grants

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Miami woman spends 30 years as Army wife

By JESSICA GRAHAM - Associated Press

Red Cross assists Elko family after apartment fire

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John Friedrich and Jane Koas talk with the American Red Cross Thursday, April 10, 2014 after being evacuated from their home on Budge Drive in Jackson, Wyo. Significant earth movement in the East Gros Ventre Butte hillside, already responsible for a broken water pipe and some property damage, prompted officials to order the evacuation on Wednesday evening. Jackson Hole Fire/EMS uses a ladder truck to watch the area in question, providing safety watch for geologists and law enforcement working on the slope. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News and Guide, Price Chambers)

Shelter to open for Wyoming slide evacuees

By MEAD GRUVER - Associated Press

Search goes on to link WWII portraits to families

By MARYLYNNE PITZ - Associated Press

29 people displaced after Philly fire

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Typhoon Haiyan survivors walk through ruins in the village of Maraboth, in the Philippines on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record, hit the country's eastern seaboard on Friday, destroying tens of thousands of buildings and displacing at least a half-million people. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Money preferred form of charity for Philippine typhoon relief

By Sharon Cohen - Associated Press

** FILE ** Soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces carry a wounded colleague out of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, following the sound of explosions and gunfire. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya mall crisis: Hostages not yet released

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

South Korean Chung Hack-soon (center), 76, talks with Red Cross officials at the headquarters of the Korea Red Cross in Seoul on Aug. 16, 2013, to fill out an application form to reunite with her family members who live in North Korea. South Korean President Park Geun-hye proposed the previous day that the two Koreas hold a reunion next month of families still separated 60 years after the Korean War, another sign of easing tensions after a spring that saw the neighbors threatening war. (Associated Press)

North Korea agrees on talks on family reunions

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**FILE** Taliban militants, who were arrested by Afghan Border Police, stand over their guns July 4, 2011, while they are presented to the media at the Afghan Border Police headquarters in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. All of them were dressed as women and at least one was strapped with an explosive vest. (Associated Press)

Militants storm Red Cross building in Afghanistan

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, accompanied by American Red Cross President and CEO Gail J. McGovern, gestures while speaking during the his visit to the Disaster Operation Center of the Red Cross National Headquarter to discuss superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

For Obama, an opportunity to take charge in a crisis

By Susan Crabtree and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Wendy Harman of the American Red Cross shows Michael Dell of Dell Inc. the capabilities of the social media monitoring center. (Barbara L. Salisbury)

Social media users send out SOS to Red Cross

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Children hold anti government posters during a protest in a town in north Syria, Friday, March 2, 2012. Syria has faced mounting international criticism over its bloody crackdown on the uprising, which started with peaceful protests but has become increasingly militarized. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Red Cross blocked by Syria from ex-rebel enclave

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

A Syrian boy chants slogans Feb. 20, 2012, during a rally demanding UNICEF to protect Syrian children in front of the UNICEF Compound in Amman, Jordan. (Associated Press)

Dozens killed in Syria; Red Cross urges cease-fire

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press