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Myanmar earthquake: Deaths exceed 2,700

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"The time window for critical search and rescue is narrowing," OCHA's Humanitarian Coordinator for Myanmar, Marcoluigi Corsi, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Yangon.
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Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at leas...
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About 2,000 people have so far been reported dead following Friday's magnitude 7.7 earthquake in a country where millions were already displaced by a civil war triggered by the 2021 military coup.
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