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Mandalay, Myanmar (AFP) Mar 31, 2025 - Hopes were fading Monday of finding more survivors in the rubble of Mandalay, where some residents spent a third night sleeping in the open after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand.
Mar 31, 2025
Washington (AFP) Mar 31, 2025 - The United States said Monday it has dispatched a disaster relief team to Myanmar days after a major earthquake, defending the pace of the deployment following President Donald Trump's dismantling of America's main overseas aid agency.
Mar 31, 2025
Paris (AFP) Mar 31, 2025 - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Monday slammed a political decision and insisted she had not abandoned hope of standing in presidential elections in 2027 after a court handed her a five-year ban on running for office.
Mar 31, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Mar 31, 2025 - Authorities in Thailand are investigating possible factors that led to the devastating collapse of a Bangkok construction site, where dozens remained missing on Monday, three days after a massive earthquake centred in Myanmar.
Mar 31, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 31, 2025 - A megaquake and subsequent tsunami could cause as many as 298,000 deaths in Japan and damage costing up to $2 trillion, the government said Monday in a new estimate.
Mar 31, 2025
Paris (AFP) Mar 31, 2025 - Oceans need stronger protections and governance to ensure the blue economy can grow fairly and sustainably in the face of climate change, territorial disputes and other threats, the OECD said Monday.
Mar 31, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Mar 30, 2025 - A powerful earthquake has killed more than 1,600 people in war-torn Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand and caused widespread damage.
Mar 30, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Mar 30, 2025 - Ravaged by four years of civil war, Myanmar is ill-prepared to cope with the destruction brought by Friday's massive earthquake.
Mar 30, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 30, 2025 - The United States will ensure robust, ready and credible deterrence across the Taiwan Strait, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday, calling China aggressive and coercive.
Mar 30, 2025
Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2025 - Scientists don't call it the Great Dying for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extincti
Mar 30, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Mar 30, 2025 - A 7.0-magnitude quake struck offshore near Tonga, the US Geological Survey said Sunday, with authorities in the Pacific island nation briefly issuing a tsunami warning before giving the all-clear.
Mar 30, 2025
Accra (AFP) Mar 30, 2025 - Three Chinese nationals are missing after their vessel came under a suspected pirate attack off the coast of Ghana, authorities said over the weekend.
Mar 30, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Mar 30, 2025 - The World Health Organization said Sunday the Myanmar earthquake was a top-level emergency as it urgently sought $8 million to save lives and prevent disease outbreaks over the next 30 days.
Mar 30, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2025 - Evidence from a global nuclear monitoring system indicates that an underwater landslide likely severed subsea communications cables, disrupting internet connectivity in several West African nations
Mar 30, 2025
Kenitra, Morocco (AFP) Mar 30, 2025 - Morocco is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tapping northern rivers to supply water to parched cities farther south but experts question the sustainability of the project in the face of climate change.
Mar 30, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Mar 30, 2025 - Myanmar's junta has pressed ahead with its campaign of air strikes despite the country's devastating earthquake, with a rebel group telling AFP Sunday seven of its fighters were killed in an aerial attack soon after the tremors hit.
Mar 30, 2025
