International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Twitter verification is essential to curb impersonation and fake news.

The great Twitter cull looms for leaders and organizations

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Hundreds of accounts of world leaders and their institutions, plus 40 organizations and their leaders, were to be demoted.

Tahrir Square in Sanaa, the Houthi-held capital of Yemen, where protests and public executions have taken place.

Humanitarians & Peace

Humanitarians arrange multi-day prisoner swap in Yemen's long war

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The deal brokered by U.N. and Red Cross officials between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels is the first major prisoner swap in almost three years.

ICRC has the legal right under the Third Geneva Convention to speak to POWs anywhere they're held.

Humanitarians & Peace

Red Cross finds around half of all armed groups are state-supported

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New ICRC guidelines are meant to protect innocent civilians and detainees against violence by non-state armed groups.

A high-level political roundtable on the last day of GESDA's second annual summit

SciTech Diplomacy

Global quantum institute for best use cases proposed for Geneva

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A coalition announced plans for a global institute for quantum computing that equitably shares the new technology.

The secured entrance to IMF meetings in Washington

Sustainable Development Goals

World bankers meet amid global inflation and recession threats

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With leadership under fire and a mix of crises, finance ministers and central bankers held World Bank meetings.

A street scene from the northern city of Axum in Ethiopia's Tigray region

Humanitarians & Peace

WHO chief calls out role of racism in his homeland's dire Tigray crisis

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The U.N. health chief blamed racism in world leaders' neglect for the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

The Ukrainian village of Novoselivka, near Chernihiv

Human Rights

Human Rights Council sharpens focus in Ukraine

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International investigators were directed to focus their efforts on possible war crimes by Russian soldiers near Ukraine's capital and other regions.

A residential building in Mariupol fired on by Russian tanks

Humanitarians & Peace

Groups ferry Ukrainians from Mariupol

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Red Cross and U.N. workers rescued civilians from Ukraine's besieged Mariupol, busing them to safety as part of a negotiated "safe passage" operation.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Bucha to discuss civilian mass killings under Russian occupation

Human Rights

OSCE cites Russian war crimes in Ukraine

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Russia has clearly violated international humanitarian law and abused human rights during its invasion of Ukraine since late February, OSCE reported.

The Geneva headquarters of the International Commmittee of the Red Cross

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Cyber attack exposes data from at least 60 Red Cross organizations

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Hackers gained access to ICRC confidential information about more than half a million 'highly vulnerable people.'

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin meet at the start of the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva

Security & Geopolitics

Biden and Putin agree at face-to-face Geneva meeting to cut nuclear risks

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With U.S.-Russia tensions nearing Cold War-era dimensions, the leaders turned to Swiss diplomacy to improve relations.

Kindred Spirits sculpture in County Cork, Ireland honoring Choctaws' donation to Irish famine relief

Humanitarians & Peace

Choctaw and Irish mutual aid is a model of cooperation for the ages

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Navajos thanked Irish donors for repaying a 173-year-old favor that was an early example of an international aid organization.

The U.K.'s York Cold War Bunker, built in 1961 to withstand a nuclear war

Nuclear Security & WMD

Millenials fear nuclear attack in ICRC poll

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More than half of all people reaching adulthood in the early 21st century believe it more likely than not a nuclear attack will occur in the coming decade.