Doctors Without Borders

The Central Archaeological Council that stands as the country’s highest advisory body on Greece’s cultural heritage made an unprecedented decision to allow the use of the Roman Odeon of Kos as a temporary accommodation shelter for refugees and migrants in the area. The decision came after a  request by Doctors Without Borders.

Mustard gas was used during summer fighting in Syria but it was not clear by whom, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Nov 5, while jihadists seized a key town from regime forces.

Human Rights Watch has accused Syrian rebel groups outside Damascus of war crimes after they placed hostages including civilians in cages for use as "human shields" to deter government strikes.
 

A "significant increase" of air strikes on Syrian hospitals recently has killed at least 35 patients and medical staff and wounded 72, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Oct. 29.

U.S. military personnel rammed into the gate of a medical aid group's hospital in Afghanistan last week to enter the grounds of the building hit in a U.S. air strike earlier this month, a Pentagon spokesman said on Oct. 19.

Medical charity MSF Oct. 7 demanded an international probe into a deadly US air strike on an Afghan hospital, after reports said NATO's top regional commander thought American forces broke their own rules of engagement.
 

President Barack Obama has pledged a full investigation into an apparent US air strike on an Afghan hospital that killed 19 people, in a bombing the UN said could amount to a war crime.
 

A U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, in Afganistan  killed at least 19 people at a hospital run by international medical-aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) early Saturday.

MSF said 12 Afghan staff members and at least seven patients, among them three children, were killed and 37 people more, including patients and medical staff, were wounded.

The Croatian sun has given way to rain and the temperature has dropped, but refugees and migrants continue to stream into the country, forcing officials and charities to scramble to prepare for wintry conditions.
 

Google's charitable arm is pledging to donate an additional $5.5 million to groups trying to help the thousands of refugees pouring into Europe.