International Committee of the Red Cross
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‘We are not here for ceremony’: The indignity of a coronavirus burial
- Africa
- September 22, 2020, 18:34
The funeral started like any other. Plastic chairs were spaced out under marquees. Steam rose as women cooked big vats of food on charcoal fires besid(...)

Tens of thousands evacuated as India, Bangladesh brace for super cyclone
- Asia-Pacific
- May 19, 2020, 16:03
Authorities in eastern India and Bangladesh were scrambling on Tuesday to move tens of thousands of villagers away from coasts expected to suffer wid(...)

Coronavirus poses terrible new threat to Syria, Iraq and Yemen
- Middle East
- March 23, 2020, 20:15
War-devastated Syria, Iraq and Yemen are the three countries in the Middle East most vulnerable to mass coronavirus contagion. The Syrian and Iraqi he(...)

The Irish Times view on Irish soldiers in Mali: a war fought in the dark
- Editorial
- November 5, 2019, 18:30
The killing of at least 54 Malian soldiers and one civilian near the country’s border with Niger last weekend underlines the acute dangers of a confli(...)

Bodies wash up on Libyan shore a month after shipwreck
- Africa
- August 22, 2019, 19:18
Beside Khoms Souq al Khamis migrant detention centre, in northwest Libya, bodies are washing up on the shore. It’s been nearly a month since as many (...)

US move to stifle UN agency puts Palestinian refugees in peril
- Middle East
- May 23, 2019, 17:21
The US has called for the dismantling of the UN agency caring for more than five million Palestinian refugees. Trump administration envoy Jason Gree(...)

At least 92 dead following bombings in Afghanistan
- Asia-Pacific
- August 15, 2018, 12:11
A suicide blast in a mainly Shia area of Kabul killed at least 48 people on Wednesday, the latest in a wave of attacks that have killed hundreds of ci(...)

Investigation launched into Yemen air strike that killed 40 children
- Middle East
- August 10, 2018, 16:11
A Saudi-led Arab military coalition said on Friday it would investigate an air strike that killed dozens of children in Yemen, an apparent shift of s(...)

Arab states target port city in biggest assault of Yemen war
- Middle East
- June 13, 2018, 09:41
A Saudi-led alliance of Arab states launched an attack on Yemen’s main port city on Wednesday in the largest battle of the war, aiming to bring the r(...)

Mosul victims treated for chemical agents as civilians flee
- Middle East
- March 3, 2017, 18:21
The number of civilians escaping the fighting in Mosul has increased significantly as battles intensify between US-backed Iraqi forces and Islamic Sta(...)