Hundreds trapped under rubble of collapsed buildings as Myanmar earthquake death toll passes 1,600
Summary
More than 1,600 people have been killed in Myanmar and thousands more injured following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that was also felt in neighbouring countries
Hundreds are believed to be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings - including at least 50 construction workers who are unaccounted for after a high-rise was flattened by the earthquake in Bangkok
More than 90 people are believed trapped in the rubble of an apartment block in Mandalay, Myanmar, a Red Cross official tells AFP
A rescue team in Mandalay tells the BBC: "We are digging people out with our bare hands"
Air strikes have continued in Myanmar, the People's Defense Force says. BBC's Yvette Tan takes a look at the troubles facing the war-torn country
Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah
Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says
Sat 29 Mar 2025 04.38 GMT
Israel’s military has admitted it fired on ambulances in the Gaza Strip after identifying them as “suspicious vehicles”, with Hamas condemning it as a “war crime” that killed at least one person.
The incident took place last Sunday in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood in the southern city of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border.
Israeli troops launched an offensive there on 20 March, two days after the army resumed aerial bombardments of Gaza after an almost two-month-long truce. Attacks on medical staff, hospitals and ambulances are potential war crimes.
Turkey: Opposition protesters flock to Istanbul streets
with AFP, Reuters, dpa
Protesters flooded Istanbul's streets, heeding the call of Turkey's main opposition CHP party. The mass protests, ongoing since top CHP figure Imamoglu's arrest, are among the biggest against Erdogan.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Istanbul for a mass rally called for by the main Turkish opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) against the jailing of the Turkish city's mayor and top party figure Ekrem Imamoglu.
Imamoglu's March 19 arrest on corruption charges has sparked one of the biggest street demonstrations against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The opposition figure is believed to be the only Turkish politician capable of challenging Erdogan in a presidential election.
Coalition of the willing: European leaders gathered in Paris for Ukraine summit
Leaders from nearly 30 countries, along with NATO and EU chiefs, met in the French capital to discuss bolstering aid to Kyiv and deploying European troops to secure long-term peace.
Family fights for death-row retrial under Japan's 'snail-paced' system
By Tomohiro OSAKI
Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder after failing to win her long campaign for a retrial.
Left almost unchanged for a century, Japan's current retrial system is often labelled the "Unopenable Door" because the chances of being granted a legal do-over are so slim.
But hopes have grown of a change since a court last year overturned the wrongful conviction of the world's longest-serving death row prisoner Iwao Hakamata, whose case took 42 years to be reopened.
Is Sudan’s war merging with South Sudanese conflicts?
New alliances in Sudan’s civil war risk sparking a regional conflict by drawing in neighbouring South Sudan, analysts tell Al Jazeera.
The biggest development was an alliance in February between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who established a government to rival Sudan’s current de facto leadership.
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