Sixteen patients and their families have been evacuated from besieged rebel-held suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus, the Red Cross said.

The revelations follow an internal investigation of how money was handled during the 2014-2016 epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

Around 350 migrants have crossed a fence into a Spanish territory in North Africa, according to the Red Cross.

Gunmen have killed six employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the aid group said.

An aid convoy is on its way to the besieged Syrian town of Moadamiyeh, the International Committee for the Red Cross said.

The Cabinet is expected to sign off on a €5m package for flood relief this morning.

A woman who marred the reputation of China’s Red Cross with social media posts on her extravagant lifestyle has been sentenced to five years in jail for running gambling activities.

The Irish Red Cross has offered to conduct free checks on community-based defibrillators across the country in the wake of a diving tragedy off Cork.

Nigeria’s Red Cross says a runaway oil tanker truck exploded in a crowded bus station in the south of the country, igniting 11 other vehicles and burning 69 people to death.