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Much needed humanitarian support has started trickling into Myanmar after the Military government announced a temporary 20 day ceasefire on Tuesday.
In its nightly news bulletin, MRTV said “To show sympathy to the victims of the earthquake across the country, to provide the effective rescue operation and rehabilitation, with regards to the stability, the period between the 2nd and 22nd of April, is declared a temporary ceasefire by the military.”
The military government however warned rebel groups it would respond to any attacks, acts of sabotage or anything that would undermine peace in the country.
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has started distributing aid to the victims of the earthquake which shook Myanmar on Friday killing more than 2800 people and about 22 more in neighbouring Thailand.
The 7.7 magnitude quake, one of the strongest to hit Myanmar in a century, jolted a region that is home to 28 million people, toppling buildings, flattening communities and leaving many without food, water and shelter.
As rescue operations continued in the cities of Mandalay and Sagaing, people who had been displaced by the quake received food from WFP workers. Residents of both cities said they have received no help from the military.
Myanmar’s ostracized leader Min Aung Hlaing is set to leave his disaster stricken country for a regional summit on Thursday.
The meeting set to be held in Bangkok, Thailand will consist of mostly South Asian countries including Thailand, India and Bangladesh.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
A Polish Air Force pilot was killed on Thursday when an F-16 fighter jet crashed during a training flight ahead of the 2025 Radom International Air Show.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
European powers will likely reimpose international sanctions on Iran by the end of the month after their latest round of talks with Tehran aimed at preventing them were deemed not serious, France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday.
Police have identified the suspect who fatally shot three officers in southern Pennsylvania as 24-year-old Matthew James Ruth, who was already wanted on stalking charges.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that Britain "fiercely" protects free speech, but when it was used to incite real harm to children and vulnerable people there was a limit.
Canada's government is sending more asylum-seekers hoping to file claims in Canada back to the U.S. under a bilateral pact, even as the U.S. says it may deport them to third countries.
Ukrainian troops and engineers will train their Polish counterparts in a joint group on countering drones, Ukraine's defence minister Denys Shmyhal said on Thursday, a week after Russian drones flew into Poland.
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