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Red Cross sends emergency units to Zimbabwe

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Red Cross program for refugees

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Red Cross uses online gaming to reach young supporters

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Firefighters rescue eight people from flats fire

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Mama bags help reduce malaria and HIV transmission

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10 Best Charities Everyone's Heard Of

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Hurricanes deplete Red Cross relief fund- msnbc.com

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Gustav Causing Major Changes to RNC, a Telethon for Red Cross?

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Red Cross probes emblem 'misuse'

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Red Cross finds Bush administration guilty of war crimes

"In a secret report last year, the Red Cross found evidence of the CIA using torture on prisoners that would make the Bush administration guilty of war crimes, The New York Times reported Friday.

Prisoner Abu Zubaydahwho said he had been waterboarded, "slammed against the walls" and confined in boxes "so small he said he had to double up his limbs in the fetal position."

Mayer cited "sources familiar with the report" to explain the confidential document as a warning "that the abuse constituted war crimes, placing the highest officials in the U.S. government in jeopardy of being prosecuted."

The report was submitted to CIA last year and concluded that American interrogation methods are "categorically" torture that violates both domestic and international law, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported Friday.

Although the CIA had already admitted to the use of waterboarding, Meyer says in the book that several CIA officers confirm the findings of the Red Cross, including the other forms of torture mentioned.

Maddow called George W. Bush a "torture-approver-in-chief who has yet to be held to account for anything" and said that congressman Dennis Kucinich had reintroduced his articles of impeachment against the president.

Maddow questioned constitutional law expert Johnathan Turley about the development.

"The problem for the bush admin is that they perfected plausible deniability techniques," Turley said. "They bring out one or two people that are willing to debate on cable shows whether waterboarding is torture and it leaves the impression that its a closed question.

"It's not. It's just like the domestic surveillance program that the federal court said just a week ago was also not just a closed question."

When asked by Maddow if the chances are now greater that Bush will be prosecuted now or after leaving office by the international community, Turley compared the situation to Serbia in the early 90s.

"I'd never thought I would say this, but I think it might in fact be time for the United States to be held internationally to a tribunal. I never thought in my lifetime I would say that.""In a secret report last year, the Red Cross found evidence of the CIA using... more

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Colombia admits rescuers faked it!

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Secret Red Cross report of C.I.A. torture of Qaeda captives

Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central... more

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Colombia misused Red Cross emblem in hostage rescue

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Red Cross emblem used in hostage rescue

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Rescuers Trick Rebels with Red Cross

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Israel Testing Coffins for Missing Soldiers

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Red Cross says Bush and others may be guilty of war crimes

WASHINGTON — Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that... more

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Holocaust siblings united after 66 years apart

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World's poorest people hit hardest by disasters

More poor people are falling victim to global disasters than ever before, says a new report that tracks carnage.

This higher level of vulnerability is occurring even though emergency preparedness is generally better and there were fewer floods, droughts and earthquakes in 2007 than in previous years, says the 2008 World Disasters Report released Thursday by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

More than 201 million people were affected by disasters, a 40 per cent increase over 2006. But of those killed, a disproportionate number came from vulnerable people in developing countries.

Almost two-thirds of the world's disasters dating back to 2004 have occurred in Asia and the Pacific and in Africa, the report said. "It is a sad reality that the people most affected and hardest hit by disasters are amongst the poorest in the world," Charlie Musoka, manager of emergency response for the Canadian Red Cross, said in a statement.
In all, 405 natural disasters were reported in 2007 and they inflicted a cost of almost $63.5 billion. Another 141 "technical disasters" occurred, industrial, transport or miscellaneous accidents, such as a ferry sinking or a mine collapse.

Together, they claimed the lives of 23,167 people across the globe in 2007. While that is far lower than the yearly average of 113,000 deaths of the last decade, those figures take into account the year that most skewed the average - 2004, when the Asian tsunami that followed the earthquake off the coast of Indonesia killed more than 230,000.
But this year is shaping up to be just as bad.

The toll of dead or missing from the May 2 cyclone that struck Myanmar rose this week to 138,000, while the number of dead in the China earthquake 10 days later has risen to almost 69,000 and is expected to keep climbing, amid fears that rivers now blocked by landslides could burst. In all, more than two billion people have been affected by disasters in the last decade, the report said. Floods, at 28 per cent, tropical cyclones at 12 per cent, earthquakes at 11 per cent and epidemics at nine per cent accounted for the majority of disasters categorized between 2004 and 2008, the study said.

- Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News ServiceMore poor people are falling victim to global disasters than ever before, says a new... more

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US hid detainees from Red Cross

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