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Volunteers look for survivors near a damaged building Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar’s earthquake death toll jumps to more than 1,600 as more bodies recovered from the rubble

March 29, 2025 at 10:02 a.m.

The new total of 1,644 is a sharp rise over the 1,002 total announced just hours earlier, underlining the difficulty of confirming casualties over a widespread region and the likelihood...

Hospital patients lay on beds outdoors after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Powerful earthquake rocks Myanmar and Thailand and kills more than 150 people

March 28, 2025 at 10:52 a.m.

A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collapsed. Footage shared on...

Thai citizens, who were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, leave Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) in Be’er Ya’akov, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Released Thai hostages return to Bangkok after being held for over a year in Gaza

February 9, 2025 at 8:49 a.m.

Five Thai workers released after being held hostage for over a year in Gaza arrived in Bangkok on Sunday.

Thai police display pictures of evidence during a press conference at Lumpini police station in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. The chief of the Thai police forensic division said Wednesday that police have found traces of cyanide in the cups of six people found dead in a central Bangkok luxury hotel. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Traces of cyanide are found in the blood of Vietnamese and Americans found dead in a Bangkok hotel

July 17, 2024 at 9:17 a.m.

Initial autopsy results showed traces of cyanide in the blood of six Vietnamese and American guests at a luxury hotel in central Bangkok and one of them is believed to...

People walk outside a hotel where a number of people were found dead in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Napat Kongsawad)

6 Vietnamese and American guests found dead in a hotel room in Bangkok, with poisoning a possibility

July 16, 2024 at 8:46 p.m.

The bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and their deaths may have been caused by poisoning, police and officials said.

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