The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, just completed a two-day visit to Moscow where he met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Only a few months ...

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, from Sana'a, Yemen. He's visited the besieged city of Taiz, and describes what he saw there. It ...

As the western world battles deadly waves of coronavirus, the first cases have been reported in Syria where hundreds of thousands of refugees are crammed into makeshift camps and bombed-out houses ...

Made out of a fluorescent protein, the qubit is just 3 nanometers in diameter, scientists report August 20 in Nature. By hitting the protein with laser light, tweaking it with microwaves and observing ...

The spread of Covid-19 continues to dominate global attention. Governments are primarily focusing efforts on the domestic response to the virus. With 168 million people in need of humanitarian ...

Biology and quantum physics often seem like they belong to separate worlds. Living cells function in warm, noisy environments ...

Amid government inaction, Silicon Valley can’t be neutral when it comes to reining in digital weapons, says the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross. But war zones and war relief ...

GENEVA, March 23 (Reuters) - The head of the International Committee of Red Cross will raise "pressing humanitarian issues" linked to the war in Ukraine during his two-day talks with Russian officials ...

In these times of conflict and natural disasters, the Red Cross system is something we take for granted. Red Cross volunteers are on the scene all over the world, and donors feel their contributions ...

On Monday evening Diamond Aircraft Industries Canada President and CEO Peter Maurer made the startling announcement that the company was laying off “the majority” of its Canadian workforce. The move, ...