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Death toll tops 1,600 in Myanmar and Thailand

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Financial Times |
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also offered support, while the UN allocated $5mn and the EU €2.5mn for immediate relief efforts.
Reuters |
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...
BBC |
The UN says the earthquake has compounded "an already dire crisis" in Myanmar, which is in the midst of a four-year civil war.

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