The effects of the Trump administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance will be tested in any response to the first big natural disaster of his second term.

Damage is reported in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city (which lies 600km away from the epicentre) and in Naypyidaw, the country’s capital. The control tower of that city’s airport has collapsed, according to Mary Callahan of the University of Washington.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said that the epicentre of the 7.7-magnitude earthquake was 16 kilometres north-northwest of the town of Sagaing in Myanmar

The WHO said it had triggered its emergency management system in response to Friday’s “huge” earthquake in Myanmar and was mobilizing its logistics hub in Dubai to prepare trauma injury supplies. The World Health Organization is coordinating its earthquake response from its Geneva headquarters “because we see this as a huge event” with “clearly a very,

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Central Myanmar was struck by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, with tremors reaching Thailand and south-west China. Why are these regions more at risk than others?

A woman is to travel to the Turkish border with Syria to help prepare 2,000 meals a day during the last six days of Ramadan. Sara Rashid usually runs a business making savoury snacks from her kitchen in Leicester but has now signed up to be part of a team of 40 people from the charity Mercy to Humanity which will serve meals on a larger scale.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a call on Friday that steps toward achieving navigational safety in the Black Sea would contribute to peace efforts with Ukraine,

“MSF medical and humanitarian staff in Myanmar and neighbouring countries are ready to respond at scale to the urgent needs of affected communities, once authorities facilitate swift and unhindered access for teams to do assessments and provide medical care,” it said in a statement.