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The death toll from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar climbed to more than 2,700 Tuesday, as the scale of the destruction in the isolated, war-torn Southeast Asian nation became clearer.
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The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said Monday, as accounts of some people’s last moments emerged: Two hundred Buddhist monks crushed by a colla...
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Earlier on Wednesday, rescuers pulled two men alive from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar’s capital and a third from a guest house in another city, five days after the quake.
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