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Migrants board a night bus at Sarajevo station, on their way to the Bosnian town of Bihac on June 7th, 2018. Photograph: Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty
Migrants crossing Balkans in ‘desperate need’, warns Red Cross

The Red Cross says thousands of people now trying to cross the Balkans to the European Union are in “desperate need” of more assistance, amid growing (...)

A Cuban man gives another a haircut outside a Caritas centre housing migrants in Panama City. Photograph: Sally Hayden
Trump’s wall: In Central America, migrants are undeterred
  • World
  • December 19, 2016, 01:00

In another country he’d be a pensioner, but grey-haired José is dreaming of a new life. Small and rotund, with baggy trousers and a stained shirt, he(...)

A jet involved in Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen. Humanitarian aid group the Red Cross has claimed that the Saudi coalition is blocking relief efforts in the country. Photograph: Saudi Press Agency/Reuters
Red Cross claims Saudi coalition blocking Yemen aid

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that three shipments of aid and medical staff it is trying to send to Yemen were still blocke(...)

Survivor Chen Zhirong comforts her 18-month-old son next to debris at a village on the second day after an earthquake hit Longmen township of Lushan county, Sichuan province. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters
Rescuers struggle to reach China earthquake survivors

Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China today as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst ea(...)