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00:00Hundreds are feared dead after a powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar's second-largest
00:05city, Mandalay.
00:07A 7.7-magnitude quake struck around midday local time.
00:11It was followed by a series of more than 50 aftershocks, with the strongest measuring
00:15in at 6.4 magnitude.
00:18Myanmar's military-run government says almost 700 people have been killed, but warned the
00:22death toll could still continue to rise.
00:25Hundreds are reported missing, and close to 1,700 people sustained injuries of varying
00:30degrees.
00:32Aftershocks were felt in the capital of neighboring Thailand, some 1,300 kilometers southeast
00:36of the epicenter.
00:38A high-rise building under construction in Bangkok collapsed, claiming the lives of 10
00:42people and injuring more than a dozen.
00:45The U.S. Geological Survey predicts the death toll from the quakes could top 10,000.
00:50The U.N. has allocated $5 million to help the civil war-embroiled country start relief
00:55efforts.
00:56U.S. President Donald Trump also offered Washington's assistance to help Myanmar with its response.
01:07Serbia launched the first main hearing of the trial of four Croatian Air Force pilots
01:11accused of committing war crimes in August 1995.
01:16The pilots are accused of firing rockets from fighter jets at columns of Serb refugees on
01:20Petrovac Road during Croatia's War of Independence.
01:25The campaign, in collaboration with the V Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia
01:29and Herzegovina, was titled Operation Storm.
01:33Thirteen people were killed over the two-day campaign, with six of the victims being children
01:38under the age of 13.
01:41Two dozen others were injured as Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets shelled the refugee convoys.
01:48The accused pilots will be tried in absentia as they've been unavailable to Serbian judicial
01:52authorities since the beginning of the investigation in 2021.
01:57The trial will take place in the War Crimes Department of the High Court in the Serbian
02:01capital Belgrade.
02:07On a visit to an American military base in Greenland, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance
02:12accused Denmark of not doing a good job protecting the territory.
02:31Relations between the U.S. and Greenland have soured after U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly
02:36suggested that the United States should come to control the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
02:42Vance said the U.S. has no option but to take a significant position to ensure the security
02:47of Greenland as he encouraged a push for independence from Denmark.
02:52He was joined by his wife and other senior U.S. officials in a trip that was scaled back
02:56after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary
03:01was planned without consulting them.
03:10The German government coalition talks have reached a new level according to the party
03:14leaders in Berlin on Friday.
03:17Germany's next potential chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said that there are still hurdles to
03:21overcome but that he is confident that the parties will manage it.
03:26The CDU leader is keen to form a government before Easter but negotiations are proving
03:30tricky.
03:31Currently, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats are disagreeing on how to finance
03:36the election campaign promises, namely if tax for higher earners or corporations will
03:40be raised.
03:41They are also yet to come to an agreement about pensions and conscription.
03:46However, following the challenges that Germany is facing both with the economy and with Donald
03:51Trump as U.S. president, both parties are under pressure to form a government and elect
03:56a chancellor as soon as possible, so concessions may need to be made on both sides.
04:02Liv Stroud in Berlin for Euronews.
04:10The streets of Damascus are once again full of life as Syrians prepare to celebrate Eid
04:15marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
04:19The Syrian capital beams with positivity as Damascenes prepare to observe the Muslim
04:23holiday free of Bashar al-Assad for the first time in almost a quarter century.
04:28Markets which were once stagnant and fearful are now bustling with people.
04:33Vendors say sales have even skyrocketed this year, despite a crippling economic crisis
04:38sustained after more than a decade-long civil war.