SAGAING, Myanmar: Myanmar's junta announced a temporary ceasefire on Wednesday (Apr 2) as the death toll from a devastating earthquake rose and desperate survivors pleaded for more help amid ...

"Political resolution to the conflict is the only way forward, starting with inclusive and credible elections," spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said in a post on X. Myanmar's junta announced a temporary ...

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that a junta air strike had accidentally hit a Chinese Red Cross rescue team. This has been corrected to clarify that the rescue team was ...

Prior to the military's announcement of a temporary ceasefire, Tom Andrews, the United Nations special rapporteur on Myanmar in an X post on Wednesday said attacks by the junta following the quake ...

It was only hours after Myanmar was hit by its strongest earthquake in a century when the ruling military regime resumed bombing parts of the war-torn country where it lost crucial territory over ...

Since March 28th, when a powerful earthquake shook Myanmar’s central heartlands, the country’s brutal junta has tried to show the world its softer side. Min Aung Hlaing, its leader ...

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(UPDATE) BANGKOK — Protesters displayed a banner calling Myanmar's junta chief a "murderer" as he joined a regional summit in Bangkok on Friday, a week after a huge earthquake in his country killed ...

The surprise announcement came late on Wednesday. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing had previously rejected ceasefire proposals by rebel groups to allow humanitarian aid to reach earthquake-hit regions ...

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