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AP - Seven fans died in a stampede on Saturday while trying to enter a stadium where a football match between two of Kenya’s most popular teams was being played,…

Time.com - After founding the Red Cross, Henry Dunant fell into poverty and obscurity, sheltering in Heiden, where townsfolk never warmed to him. Why is it celebrating him today?

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AP - Polish police say they have removed a group of protesters from around a large cross memorializing the late President Lech Kaczynski in the heart of the capital to…

AP - South Korea’s Red Cross pressed North Korea on Wednesday to release a boat and its seven-man crew seized off the east coast last weekend while Seoul was carrying…

AP - Protesters shouting “Defend the cross!” scuffled with police Tuesday but managed to prevent Polish officials from moving a cross erected outside the presidential palace in memory of the…

AP - At least 204 people were killed in Congo when a tanker truck transporting oil flipped over and exploded overnight in the east of the country, a Red Cross…

AP - Turkey sent hundreds of elite soldiers across the border into northern Iraq on Wednesday to chase a group of Kurdish guerrillas escaping after a failed attack on a…

AP - The Red Cross says several hundred people have been killed in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan since rioting began last Thursday.

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Time.com - Kyrgyzstan’s instability breaks out with attacks on the Uzbek minority who flee to their home country. Will ethnic vengeance lash out across the frontiers?

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AP - A senior Kurdish official in northern Iraq says Iranian troops have crossed the Iraqi border in pursuit of Iranian Kurdish rebels.

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