GENEVA (Reuters) - The Red Cross humanitarian movement extended membership on Thursday to Israeli and Palestinian relief agencies, overcoming political divisions to end a nearly 60-year struggle for accession.
Unable to reach consensus, the Geneva Convention's 192 signatory states and 183 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies decided in a rare vote to approve a new red crystal emblem for use where the cross and crescent are uncomfortably linked with Christianity and Islam.