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Fears And Hopes At Collapsed Mandalay School
Rescuers clambered into the wreckage of the Wisdom Villa Private High School on the outskirts of Mandalay on Saturday until a jammed door blocked their passage."Is there anybody inside?"...
Trump Claims He’s Breaking ‘All Modern Presidential Staffing Records’ as DOGE Continues to Gut Government Personnel
President Donald Trump boasted on Friday that his administration is "breaking all modern Presidential Staffing Records," even as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues slashing federal jobs at...
Letters to the Editor, March 29, 2025: ‘Those who forget history…’
Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsCalgaryOpinionLettersPublished Mar 29, 2025  •  Last updated 7 minutes ago  •  2 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...
‘We Need Aid’: Rescuers In Quake-hit Myanmar City Plead For Help
Exhausted, overwhelmed rescuers in Myanmar's second-biggest city pleaded for help Saturday as they struggled to free hundreds of people trapped in buildings destroyed by a devastating earthquake.Friday's shallow 7.7-magnitude...
Denmark Criticises ‘Tone’ Of Vance’s Greenland Comments
Denmark on Saturday said it did not like the "tone" of US Vice President JD Vance comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to...
Deadly Earthquake Forces Thai Patients Into Sports Hall
Beneath basketball hoops and beside football goals, hospital beds line a sports hall -- patients evacuated from a hospital in the Thai capital for fear of damage by a...
‘Everyone Was Screaming’: Quake Shocks Thailand Tourists
French tourist Augustin Gus was shopping for a t-shirt in one of Bangkok's many malls when a massive quake began shaking the building in the Thai capital."Just when I...
Rallies Grow In South Korea As Court Weighs President’s Fate
Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans rallied for and against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday as protests grow while the country's Constitutional Court weighs whether to dismiss...
Scientists Explain Why Myanmar Quake Was So Deadly
Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with disaster modelling suggesting thousands could be dead.Automatic assessments...
Turkey Opposition Calls Mass Rally In Istanbul
Protesters were to join a mass rally in Istanbul Saturday at the call of Turkey's main opposition CHP over the jailing of the city's mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a top...
UK Gallery To Return Nazi-looted Painting To Heirs Of Jewish Collector
The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted from his home by the Nazis, officials said on...
UK Dreams Of US Trade Deal Before Trump Tariffs
Britain's government is hoping to reach a last-minute post-Brexit trade agreement with Washington to avoid -- or at least mitigate -- more tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday...