Rescuers pull nine bodies from landslide in flood-hit Myanmar
Rescuers scrambled Wednesday through a landslide which devastated a village in Myanmar's south at the weekend, a team leader told AFP, searching for more casualties in a disaster that has already claimed nine lives.
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India turns to corals and seagrass to shield against rising seas
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New Delhi to ban construction for six weeks to tackle air pollution
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Thailand floods affect hundreds of thousands, eight dead in Myanmar
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'Catastrophic': Swiss glaciers lose fifth of mass in five years
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