‘This is our home’: D-day for Afghans facing Pakistan deportation
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have lived in Pakistan for decades face deportation from April 1.
Brief moment of relief as rescue workers carry a woman from the rubble of a hotel in Mandalay after a five-hour operation
A woman trapped beneath the remains of a hotel building for nearly 60 hours after a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar was pulled alive from the rubble on Monday, officials said, in a rare moment of hope for rescue teams scrambling to find survivors.
Rescuers, many of them unequipped volunteers, have spent days trying to free people from buildings collapsed following Friday’s huge earthquake, which killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.
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