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HONG KONG: Myanmar’s earthquake death toll has reached 2,719, with around 4,521 people injured and more than 400 people missing, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday, citing Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing, who said the death toll could top 3,000. Woman pulled alive from Myanmar earthquake rubble; race to find more survivors

BEIRUT: At least three people were killed and seven wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs early on Tuesday, the Lebanese health ministry said, further testing a shaky four-month ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The Israeli military said on Tuesday in a statement that it attacked a Hezbollah “who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them.” The attack took place a few days after a previous strike by Israel on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh. There was no immediate statement from Hezbollah on the identity of the target.…

BANGKOK: Rescuers freed a woman from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar, officials said on Monday, a glimmer of hope three days after a massive earthquake that killed around 2,000 as searchers in Myanmar and Thailand raced against time to find more survivors. The woman was pulled from the rubble of the Great Wall Hotel in the city of Mandalay, according to a Chinese government post on Facebook. Mandalay is near the epicentre of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake on Friday that wreaked mass devastation in Myanmar and damage in neighbouring Thailand. In Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, emergency crews on Monday resumed…

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Monday of a forceful retaliation if the Islamic republic is attacked, following a threat by US President Donald Trump. “They threaten to do mischief,” Khamenei said of Trump’s latest threat, during a speech on Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. “If it is carried out, they will definitely receive a strong counterattack.” In an interview on Saturday, Trump said Iran will be bombed if it does not reach a deal on its nuclear programme. “If they don’t make a deal, there will be…

DUBAI: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday the U.S. would receive a strong blow if it acts on President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb unless Tehran reaches a new nuclear deal with Washington. Trump reiterated his threat on Sunday that Iran would be bombed if it does not accept his offer for talks outlined in a letter sent to Iran’s leadership in early March, giving Tehran a two-month window to make a decision. Iran handed a warning on Monday about Trump’s threats to Switzerland’s embassy, which represents U.S. interests and acts as an intermediary between Washington and…

MANDALAY: Myanmar declared a week of national mourning on Monday over the country’s devastating earthquake, as the death toll passed 2,000 and hopes faded of finding more survivors in the rubble of ruined buildings. National flags will fly at half-mast until April 6 “in sympathy for the loss of life and damages” from Friday’s massive quake, the ruling junta said in a statement. The junta also announced a minute’s silence on Tuesday, to begin at 12:51:02 pm (0621 GMT) – the precise time the 7.7-magnitude quake struck. People should stop where they are to pay tribute to the victims, the…

CAIRO: A senior Hamas official on Monday called on supporters worldwide to pick up weapons and fight US President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate more than two million Gazans to neighbouring countries such as Egypt and Jordan. “In the face of this sinister plan – one that combines massacres with starvation – anyone who can bear arms, anywhere in the world, must take action,” Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement. “Do not withhold an explosive, a bullet, a knife, or a stone. Let everyone break their silence.” Abu Zuhri’s call comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

PARIS: The likely implementation of tariffs imposed by the United States on April 2 means Europe will have to take better control of its future, European Central Bank (ECB) head Christine Lagarde said on Monday. “I’ve tried to describe this as a moment for our Europe… and I see it as the start of a march towards independence,” Lagarde said in an interview on France Inter radio “He calls it Liberation Day in the United States. I see it as a moment when we must together decide to take better control of our destiny, and I think it’s a step…

Russia’s air defence units intercepted and destroyed 66 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday. Forty-one of the drones were destroyed over the border Bryansk region, 24 over the territory of the Kaluga region and one over the territory of the Kursk region. Russian drone attack kills four, wounds 21 in Ukraine The regional governors of Bryansk and Kaluga said on social media that there was no damage as a result of the attacks.

GAZA CITY, (Palestinian Territories): For the second consecutive year, traditional Eid al-Fitr celebrations marking the end of Ramadan were absent in Gaza on Sunday, as residents of the Palestinian territory awoke to the roar of Israeli bombardment. “Eid, which was once a day of family reunions and visits, has now become a day of farewells and funerals,” said Nahla Abu Matar, a 28-year-old mother, speaking to AFP. Like hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents, she has been displaced from her home in northern Gaza and is now living in the southern area of Khan Yunis. “The mosques where we once…