World disasters and emergencies

Volunteers at the Hackney resource centre pack food parcels

Human kind: Keeping London connected through the pandemic

Communities have been key in keeping London going through the pandemic.

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Volunteers at a hospital in Aleppo

"The most vulnerable are facing a different crisis than first feared"

The British Red Cross's head of emergencies on the global coronavirus crisis

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Doctors and medical staff wearing heavy PPE stand together on a hospital ward in India

The new global coronavirus epicentre

South Asia is now at the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is how you can help

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A devastated man in India cries as he loses his fiance to the coronavirus

What is happening in Yemen? 21.6 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian support

Years of conflict, the effects of climate change and a floundering economy mean that Yemen's situation is desperate. It must not be forgotten.

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A view of the Balukhali refugee camp for people from Rakhine state/Myanmar, in Cox's bazar, Bangladesh

What is happening in Cox's Bazar?

People living in the world's largest refugee settlement face the threat of coronavirus

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A man driving an IFRC vehicle surveys the scene in the aftermath of Cyclone Batsirai

Madagascar: The aftermath of Cyclone Batsirai

On 5th February, Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on the eastern coast of Madagascar

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People are evacuated during the Charon heatwave in Greece 2023.

Europe heatwave 2023: extreme heat spirals into wildfires

Southern Europe has been at the centre of sustained and unprecedented heatwaves for more than two weeks.

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A Mongolian woman carries a young goat into her yurt to shelter it from brutal weather.

Faster than disaster: beating the white death in Mongolia

Increasingly, Mongolian herders endure some of the toughest winters on earth and risk losing everything. But a new Red Cross system may make all the difference

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Red Cross partners the Bangladesh Red Crescent sit at a table giving people cash grants to prepare for a cyclone.

Giving grants before cyclones strike saves lives

When we know a cyclone is coming, Red Cross cash grants help people prepare and recover.

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Man in Bangladesh holds two small ducks and smiles at the camera.

Grants, ducks and cyclones: seven lessons from Bangladesh

What would you do if your farmland flooded every single year? We teamed up with the Red Crescent and UCL, and found a solution

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A woman holds up a cash card distributed by the Polish Red Cross. It bears the IFRC logo.

“The value of being welcomed can’t be underestimated”: greeting families arriving in the UK from Ukraine

Tom and Christine have been there to support Ukrainian people arriving at Manchester airport since March

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A man on a motorcycle tries to navigate a rubble-strewn road in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti

Haiti Earthquake Appeal: the situation today

How the Red Cross is helping in the recovery efforts after the 14th August earthquake

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