Response activities include direction and control, warning, evacuation, other similar operations and appropriate communications. Recovery is the phase that involves restoring systems to normal status.

The entire mission lasted 5 minutes and 50 seconds and ended the first phase of Operation Potiguar. The Brazilian-built spacecraft is about eight meters long and weighs 1.5 tons at liftoff.

This phase began with the safe transfer of four hostages from ... Our activities during these operations are consistent with ICRC’s standard working procedures in places of detention globally. This ...