How a bloody battlefield inspired a pacifist to create the Red Cross
Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...
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Goma hospitals overwhelmed with wounded, dead bodies in the streets, UN agencies say
Already at the weekend, the U.N. agency had counted 600-700 people wounded across Goma hospitals, she added. The Red Cross said that one of its hospitals had received over 100 patients within 24 ...
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Sick And Wounded Children Begin Crossing From Gaza to Egypt
A group of 50 sick and wounded Palestinian children began crossing to Egypt for treatment through Gaza’s Rafah crossing on Saturday, in the first opening of the border since Israel captured it nearly ...