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Three doctors of a Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) hospital were killed as an air strike targeted the MSF medical facility in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz city on Saturday, the MSF said in a statement. "Three MSF staff are confirmed dead and more than 30 are unaccounted after (MSF) trauma center in Kunduz was hit at 2:10 a. m. local time on Saturday (2140 GMT Friday) several times during sustained bombing and was very badly damaged," the statement said. The medical team was working around the clock to do everything possible for the safety of patients and hospital staff, the statement said....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nine local staffers for Doctors Without Borders were killed and 30 were missing after an explosion near their hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that may have been caused by a U.S. airstrike.

Médecins Sans Frontières in West Africa “2015 was a very busy year for emerging infectious diseases.” - Steven Hatfill, MD Dedicating his lecture to Médecins Sans Frontières, for their heroic actions in West Africa, Dr. Hatfill spoke to a captivated audience at the 33rd Annual Conference of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness in California about the 43 newly emerging infectious diseases that jumped to a larger geographic area from their wild animal hosts to human populations in the past 30 years.

If a rapist escapes justice for long enough, should the world hand him a get-out-of-jail-free card? If you're Roman Polanski, world-famous director, a lot of famous and gifted people think the answer is yes. Polanski, who drugged and anally raped a thirteen-year-old girl in 1977 in Los Angeles, pled guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sex with a minor and fled to Europe before sentencing. Now, 32 years later, he's been arrested in Switzerland on his way to the Zurich film Festival, prompting outrage from international culture stars: Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodavar, Woody Allen (insert...

"The supersonic boom is a tool whose aim is to deceive, creating disinformation and confusion in combat with terrorists," said a response from the Israeli government to a Supreme Court petition against IAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier above PA-controlled Gaza. The left-wing activist group Doctors Without Borders had claimed that the sonic booms were a form of abuse, as they frightened citizens, who assume that a bomb has been detonated near their home. "This tool is aimed at disrupting the activities of terrorists in a way that creates a fear within the terrorists' ranks that they have been identified,...

PARIS (Reuters) - The medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) urged donors Tuesday to stop sending it money for Asian tsunami victims, saying it had collected enough funds to manage its relief effort there. In an unusual step, the group's branches in France and Germany said they had 40 million and $27 million respectively, enough to finance emergency medical aid projects they were supporting in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Their decision surprised other aid groups and drew criticism that it could undercut an unprecedented wave of private giving to provide relief to the region devastated by the...

MEDICAL RESPONSE WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - The World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other international agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking water and sanitation and reduce threats of infectious-disease outbreaks in the Asian countries hit by the earthquake and tsunamis on Sunday. Immediate health threats include wounds from stepping on nails and broken glass; dehydration and heat stroke from exposure in hot muggy weather; the possibility of electrocution from downed wires; and diarrheal and respiratory diseases caused by various bacteria and viruses that can spread rapidly because of poor sanitation and...

Doctors without Borders ... has pulled out of Afghanistan. ... The group cited two reasons.... First, it was distressed by the murder of five staff members, who were killed in northwestern Afghanistan in June. ... As they explained in their press conference, Doctors Without Borders take issue with the coalition's approach in Afghanistan. They bitterly resent the policy of using military units to also perform humanitarian and development tasks. In particular, they object to Provincial Reconstruction Teams, whose mixed assignment of security and economic development is anathema to them. Humanitarian aid, they believe, must be kept strictly separate from anything...

MÉDECINS sans Frontières [Doctors Without Borders]yesterday launched a stinging verbal attack on US forces in Afghanistan as it announced it was pulling out of the country after 24 years because of the deteriorating security situation. The aid group, which prides itself on tackling the toughest of humanitarian emergencies, said the US military was using aid work as part of a "heart and minds" campaign to garner support from Afghans sceptical of their intentions. Speaking on a day in which two people were killed by a blast in a mosque where Afghans were registering to vote yesterday, the MSF secretary general,...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres said Wednesday it is pulling out of Afghanistan, discouraged about a fruitless investigation into the slayings of five of its workers and fearful of new attacks. The Nobel prize-winning group's decision to withdraw was the most dramatic example yet of how deteriorating security has crippled the delivery of badly needed aid and reconstruction in Afghanistan since the Taliban regime was ousted in 2002. MSF had already suspended most of its work after the June killings and recalled all foreign staff to Kabul, the capital. "Today's context is rendering independent humanitarian aid...

Arjan Erkel, center, talking to reporters outside the Dutch Embassy on Sunday. Former security service officer Valentin Velichko, far left, assisted in Erkel's release in Dagestan. Kidnapped Dutch aid worker Arjan Erkel was released in Dagestan on Sunday after 20 months of captivity and flown to Moscow. Erkel, a worker for Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, was freed early Sunday morning in what Dagestani authorities described as a special operation. There was some indication that an agreement had been struck with the kidnappers, whose identities have not been revealed. MSF officials in Moscow said no ransom had been...

NEW YORK (AP) - A medical aid group said Friday that the American news media last year provided too little coverage of some world trouble spots, including the conflicts in Colombia, Chechnya and Congo. In its annual list of "underreported humanitarian stories," Medecins Sans Frontieres also cited a lack of media attention to the high death toll worldwide from malaria, the crises in North Korea and Somalia and the limited access of poor people to anti-AIDS medicines. "It's clearly a valid criticism when applied most broadly to the American media, but some of those conflicts such as the Congo and...

<p>Passive Saboteurs Ideological prejudice leads relief agencies to cut and run from Iraq.</p> <p>The world is now witnessing an exodus from Iraq. But it is not an exodus of refugees, whom critics of the war told us would flood in panic across the borders into neighboring states. These simply didn't materialize--and it tells us much that is good about the postwar realities of the country that they didn't.</p>

MONROVIA - Liberia's president appears to be backing away from a promise to leave his war-battered country and take up asylum in Nigeria. Charles Taylor agreed to quit his post next Monday in a bid to end fighting between government forces and rebel groups. But on Tuesday, a Nigerian official said Taylor is now demanding that a war crimes court in neighbouring Sierra Leone drop charges against him before he leaves the country. Taylor's latest demand comes just a day after the first contingent of West African troops arrived in Liberia to oversee his departure. Nigerian soldiers arrived by...

In the Liberian town of Redemption last week the bodies of the dead littered the main street. Aid workers with Médecins Sans Frontières described a smell of death hanging over the town. 'People have come from camps where the last food distribution was months ago,' said Alain Kassa. 'They have again been fleeing for six days with nothing to eat. Here in the city they won't even find the bits and pieces of food that they can gather in the bush.' Kassa was describing Liberia, but his words could just have easily been applied to the Democratic Republic of Congo,...

Saturday May 3, 4:39 PM The United States and its allies are forming a multinational force to "stabilize" post-war Iraq and will seek neither a UN mandate nor active participation of countries that opposed the war, a senior US official said.Iraq will be divided into three sectors to be commanded by the United States, Britain and Poland, which will enlist other countries to provide forces to secure the peace, said the official Friday, speaking on condition of anonmity."The thought is the force would be generated by a coalition of the willing on a bilateral basis," said the official. That would...

MSF's International President, Dr Morten Rostrup, was the medical coordinator in Baghdad and has just returned to Europe when the team was rotated. At a briefing for international journalists today in Brussels, he described what MSF sees as the challenges in Iraq. This a is summary of his remarks. MSF has been working in Iraq for five weeks now, only interrupted by the imprisonment of two volunteers by the Iraqi authorities during the height of the fighting. Much of that work has been in hospitals, directly with patients and trying to identify the most critical needs of the health system,...

Freed aid workers tell of prison torture By Kim Sengupta 13 April 2003 Two members of Médecins Sans Frontières have returned to Baghdad after being arrested and held for eight days by Iraqi secret police, accused of being spies. François Callas and Ibrahim Younous were kept in some of the regime's most notorious prisons before being dumped on the streets in the city of Ramadi, in western Iraq, on Friday evening. The two men were among dozens of foreigners who were picked up by the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi secret police, in the dying days of Saddam Hussein's regime and then...