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A Red Cross vehicle carrying Israeli hostages drives by at the Gaza Strip crossing into Egypt in Rafah on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been losing influence, funding and staff. Now, disparaging remarks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are the latest headache for the Geneva-based humanitarian aid group. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Snubbed by Netanyahu, Red Cross toes fine line trying to help civilians in Israel-Hamas conflict

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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speak during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the resort city of Sochi, Russia, Friday, June 9, 2023. The international Red Cross is calling for the ouster of the head of the Belarus Red Cross who stirred international outrage for boasting that it was actively ferrying Ukrainian children from Russian-controlled areas to Belarus. The board of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, it has given the Belarus chapter until Nov. 30 to dismiss Dzmitry Shautsou. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Global Red Cross urges ouster of Belarus chapter chief who boasted of bringing in Ukrainian children

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A serviceman of Donetsk People's Republic militia stands guard not far from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo)

Live updates |Congress approves $40B aid package to Ukraine

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In this photo taken from a video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, a Russian serviceman frisks a Ukrainian soldier after he left the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Red Cross registers Mariupol POWs as hundreds more surrender

By Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan - Associated Press

Katharina Ritz, International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, Head of Delegation in Yemen talks about the Yemen humanitarian crisis in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, March 11, 2022. The world must not &quot;shift&quot; its attention from the plight of those living through the years-long war in Yemen, Ritz said Friday, urging continued aid for the Middle East's poorest nation as the war in Ukraine grabs the world's attention. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Red Cross official asks world not to ‘shift’ away from Yemen

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows an overview of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga on Dec. 24, 2021. Three of Tonga's smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross said Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the damage caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific archipelago nation. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP, File)

Three of Tonga’s smaller islands badly damaged by tsunami

By Moussa Moussa and David Rising - Associated Press

Mike Schneider donates blood at the Red Cross Blood Donation Center, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP) ** FILE **

Give to the Red Cross because the ‘Red Cross is there for everybody’

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

Montana Red Cross seeks 20 more volunteer drivers for blood

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In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, Alvin, an 11-year-old Albanian boy who was taken to Syria by his mother when she joined the Islamic State group, is accompanied to Damascus airport by Red Cross and Red Crescent officials, after he was freed from a crowded detention camp. The boy, who found himself with no family in the al-Hol camp run by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria after his mother and siblings died amid fighting, is heading home, to Italy, where his father lives. (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent photo via AP)

Albanian boy freed from IS camp on way home to Italy

By JAMEY KEATEN and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Red Cross worker, 3 police dead in attack in southern Mexico

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Red Cross: Free smoke alarms in area where fire killed 2

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Rumors, conflict challenge Ebola response in eastern Congo

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Red Cross says Boko Haram has killed aid worker in Nigeria

By ISMAIL ALFA ABDULRAHIM - Associated Press

Volunteers and evacuees pray before dinner at a makeshift donation center in Pahoa, Hawaii. The Kilauea volcano has forced residents into shelters and agitated an otherwise cheerful, small community. (Associated Press/File)

Kilauea evacuees’ housing options limited

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Red Cross launching blood drive dubbed “Missing Types”

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett speaks to reporters outside his office about the Red Cross asking fire victims in some parts of the city to come to them or a nearby police station on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, in Milwaukee. The Red Cross Milwaukee chapter said the policy change is to address a volunteer shortage, but the move has sparked outrage because the areas affected are low-income and predominantly black and Latino. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno)

The Latest: Red Cross changes visit policy after criticism

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Mercy Kennedy (left) sits with her caregiver, Martu Weefor, after school at her home in Monrovia, Liberia. At the age of 9, Mercy lost her mother to Ebola as one of the world’s deadliest viruses swept through her neighborhood, killing people house by house. International Red Cross auditors in November found $6 million lost to fraud and corruption during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa with overpriced supplies, salaries for nonexistent aid workers and fake customs bills. (Associated Press/File)

Ebola survivors want prosecutions for fraud, corruption

By Tonny Onyulo and Sheilia Passewe - Special to The Washington Times

Kohl’s donating to hurricane relief efforts

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Richard Velasco lifts his dog into an airboat as he and his family are evacuated from their home as water rises from heavy rains from Tropical Storm Harvey on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Fort Bend County, Texas. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

9,000 people and hundreds of pets take shelter at Houston Convention Center

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

A member of the Texas Task Force One tags a home as a team conducts search and rescue operations a day after Hurricane Harvey made land fall in Rockport Texas, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday night as the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade. (Courtney Sacco/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via AP)

Hurricane Harvey victims need our financial support, prayers

By Rebecca Hagelin