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Myanmar junta declares three-week ceasefire after firing on Chinese earthquake aid convoy

Military says it will continue to take ‘necessary countermeasures’ if attacked

The Independent UK

Myanmar junta declares temporary ceasefire after earthquake as four pulled alive from rubble

Survivors rescued more than 100 hours after devastating quake kills at least 3,000

The Independent UK

Like 'Living In Hell': Quake-hit Mandalay Monastery Clears Away Rubble

Bare-handed monks slowly pick away the rubble that was once the wall of a historic Buddhist monastery in Mandalay, its exposed side a searing reminder of the deadly earthquake that rocked the city five days ago.

International Business Times

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Myanmar junta fires on earthquake aid convoy as military leader rejects ceasefire proposal

Junta leader says military responded to attacks by rebel groups, in first admission of continued attacks

The Independent UK

Devastating Myanmar earthquake seen as omen of military regime’s demise

Many view the earthquake as a sign that Myanmar’s military regime and its chief Min Aung Hlaing are nearing an end.

Al Jazeera

Sirens Wail And Families Cry At Myanmar Disaster Site

As the sirens wailed outside the ruins of Mandalay's Sky Villa condominium and Myanmar began a minute's silence for its more than 2,000 earthquake dead, Shwe Sin thought of her missing child.

International Business Times

Myanmar holds minute of silence as death toll from earthquake tops 2,700

Elderly woman pulled from rubble 91 hours after Friday’s quake as Myanmar remembers those who died.

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Woman rescued from rubble in Myanmar as hope for earthquake survivors fades

Emergency workers are warning of acute hunger and disease outbreaks as the confirmed death toll keeps on rising.

Euronews

Before and after satellite images show extent of devastation left by 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar

Satellite pictures taken after earthquake reveal toppled air traffic control tower at Myanmar’s main airport

The Independent UK

'Can Collapse Anytime': Mandalay Quake Victims Seek Respite Outdoors

After a night sprawled out on cardboard panels under hastily erected plastic tarps, hundreds of Mandalay residents awoke Tuesday to more earthquake recovery work, wondering when they can return safely to permanent shelter.

International Business Times

Myanmar junta accused of blocking aid for earthquake victims as airstrikes continue

Doctors helping with aftermath of disaster and UN special rapporteur say aid is disappearing or being blocked in some areas

The Guardian - UK

Myanmar To Hold Minute Of Silence For More Than 2,000 Quake Dead

Myanmar will hold a minute of silence on Tuesday in tribute to victims of a catastrophic earthquake that has killed more than 2,000 people, buckling roads and flattening buildings as far away as Bangkok.

International Business Times

'Noble Work' Of Buddhist Cremations After Myanmar Quake

The baby was born in the aftermath of Myanmar's earthquake and given to the flames of Buddhist funeral rites two days later, too young to have been named.

International Business Times

AI and satellites help aid workers respond to Myanmar earthquake damage

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Southeast Asian county’s second-largest city

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‘We were the lucky ones’, says Burmese student after home damaged in earthquake

Aung Kaung Myat was unable to contact his parents for several hours when he first heard the news of the earthquake on Friday.

Euronews

Myanmar earthquake death toll surpasses 2,000 amid worsening humanitarian crisis

Myanmar, where an ongoing civil war began in 2021, was already one of the most challenging places in the world for aid organisations to operate in.

International Business Times

Tears In Taiwan For Relatives Hit By Myanmar Quake

As images of destroyed buildings in earthquake-hit Myanmar flashed across her television screen in Taiwan, Yang Bi-ying could only weep for her family there.

International Business Times

Prayers And Tears For Eid In Quake-hit Mandalay

Hundreds of grieving Muslims gathered for Eid prayers in the street in Mandalay on Monday, the death and destruction of Myanmar's huge earthquake casting a pall of anguish over the occasion.

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The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: How a devastating natural disaster has been made worse by Myanmar’s brutal civil war

In today’s newsletter: With time running out to find survivors of Friday’s earthquake, Myanmar’s ruling junta continues air strikes and controls aid distribution

The Guardian - AU

Myanmar earthquake: woman trapped for days pulled alive from the rubble

Brief moment of relief as rescue workers carry a woman from the rubble of a hotel in Mandalay after a five-hour operation

International Business Times

Rescue Hopes Fading Three Days After Deadly Myanmar Quake

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.

The Guardian - AU

Volunteer rescuers race to find survivors two days after Myanmar earthquake

Red Cross says devastation is of a level not seen in Asia for over a century as more than 1,700 people killed

International Business Times

Aftershocks Rattle Myanmar As Rescuers Search For Survivors

Rescuers braved aftershocks to scour the devastated city of Mandalay for survivors on Monday, after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.

The Guardian - UK

‘Wherever I looked I saw collapsed buildings’: Myanmar quake rescuers and medics struggle with size of task

After two days there are still not enough teams to find bodies or sufficient equipment to sift through the debris

Al Jazeera

Smell of death ‘fills the air’ near epicentre of Myanmar earthquake

Bodies trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Sagaing and Mandalay cities are decomposing in Myanmar’s heat.

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