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Myanmar Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 3,085

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The human cost of last month's 7.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked Myanmar and Thailand is still rising more than a week later, with Myanmar state media revising the country's death toll up to 3,354 ...
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The immense scale of the disaster has piled a fresh crisis on the impoverished Southeast Asian country, where almost 20 million people were already in need of humanitarian assistance after four years...
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