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Deported migrants arrive from the U.S. in a military plane at Ramon Villeda Morales airport in Cortes, Honduras on January 31, 2025, the first flight of migrants returned to Honduras under the Donald Trump administration. Emilio Flores | Anadolu | Getty Images For the second time in less than two weeks, immigration lawyers have gone to…
A representational image showing a football in a field. — Pixabay/File LAHORE: Pakistan and Myanmar have mutually agreed to reverse their AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers home-and-away fixture schedule, following consultations with FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The formal approval of the revised schedule from the AFC is currently awaited. Under the new arrangement,…
Fifty years ago, my father, an American war reporter, climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and scrambled onto a chopper that took off from a roof in the mission. “My last view of Saigon was through the tail door of the helicopter,” he wrote in the Chicago Daily News. “Then the…
Myanmar authorities have arrested a TikTok astrologer for spreading panic by predicting another strong earthquake in the aftermath of last month’s tremor, state media said Thursday. John Moe The, who has a TikTok following of more than 300,000, forecast on April 9 that a “very strong” quake would hit “every city in Myanmar” in 12…
Myanmar’s junta leader attended a regional summit in Bangkok on Friday, a week after a massive earthquake devastated parts of the impoverished war-torn country, killing more than 3,100, and spurring an appeal for help by the United Nations chief. Shunned by most world leaders since leading a 2021 coup that overthrew an elected government, Min…
CHALLENGES As they race against time, rescuers in Myanmar are also operating under tough conditions. One of the challenges the team faced was the hot weather. “It is 41 degrees (Celsius), so we had to institute a certain work-rest cycle in order to keep ourselves going for the prolonged ops and we also need to…
SINGAPORE: A man was freed from a collapsed building in Myanmar by Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) personnel and local rescuers on Sunday (Mar 30) morning after an eight-hour operation, following the deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake on Friday that has killed about 1,700 people. In a Facebook post, SCDF said its Operation Lionheart team began search and…
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan on Sunday (Mar 30) called for an immediate ceasefire in Myanmar to facilitate aid efforts after a huge earthquake hit the country. A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck northwest of the city of Sagaing in central Myanmar on Friday, and also affected Thailand. More than 1,600 people were killed in…
The official death toll of the earthquake that shattered central Myanmar surpassed 1,600 people, the country’s military leaders said on Saturday, as desperate rescue workers raced to find survivors and began grappling with a monumental disaster in a nation already racked by civil war. The powerful earthquake struck on Friday near Mandalay, the country’s second-largest…
New Delhi: India on Saturday underscored its swift response to the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, reaffirming its commitment to being the “first responder,” highlighting the meaning of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (the world is one family). In a special briefing on Operation Brahma by the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that Prime Minister Narendra…
