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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. In Southeast Asia, the death toll from the magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar yesterday has risen to more than 1,600, and thousands of others are injured.

But it's hard to get information

out of the country because of the military government's severe restrictions on communications

since the 2021 coup, but reports leaking out are grim. Four years of civil war has left the country

unprepared to deal with something like this, but Myanmar's military is now allowing international

aid into the country to help. Michael Sullivan has more from neighboring Thailand.

In past disasters, the military ignored offers of help or severely restricted it, most egregiously

in 2008 when Cyclone Nargis struck, and Western nations offered to use their navies and helicopters to ferry and relief supplies.

The military ignored them and slow-walked visas for foreign aid workers, and more than 140,000 people ended up dying.

I think the military asking for help this time is probably a sign they realize just how bad the situation is.

Michael Sullivan reporting.

There's some movement in the peace deal over the ongoing war in Gaza.

Israel and Hamas say they've responded to a ceasefire proposal from international mediators.

And Pierce Hidal-El-Shalti has more.

In a speech a Hamas official said the group has agreed to a proposal offer from international

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