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A damaged building after a strong earthquake struck central Myanmar, Mandalay, March 28, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer | - What's going on: Foreign rescue teams began flying into Myanmar to aid the search for survivors from an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people. The quake has destroyed critical infrastructure in the poor Southeast Asian nation amid a grinding civil war.
- Science of the damage: Myanmar lies on the boundary between two tectonic plates and is one of the world's most seismically active countries. According to experts the shallow depth of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake meant the damage would be more severe. The Reuters Graphics team mapped the quake.
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- US Vice President JD Vance, on a visit to Greenland, accused Denmark of not doing a good job keeping Greenland safe. Vance suggested the US would better protect the island that President Trump has pressed to take over. Polls have shown that nearly all Greenlanders oppose becoming part of the United States.
- French companies holding US government contracts have been ordered to a comply with a Trump executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programmes, two people familiar with the matter said.
- Elon Musk's xAI has acquired X in a deal that values the social media platform at $33 billion and allows the value of his artificial intelligence firm to be shared with his co-investors in the company formerly known as Twitter. Meanwhile, a judge ruled Musk must face a fraud lawsuit for waiting too long to disclose his Twitter stake.
- In case you missed it earlier this week we published an exclusive about a teenage DOGE staffer and his stint providing tech support to cybercrime ring.
- Israel carried out its first major airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs in months, retaliating for an earlier rocket launch from Lebanon in the most serious test of a shaky ceasefire deal agreed in November.
- Berlin's economic success is now raising concerns that as it becomes more affluent and expensive, it might be losing that "something" that made the city's former mayor once describe Berlin as "poor but sexy."
- This week's City Memo comes from Bogota, where our correspondent introduces you to Colombia's capital via Andean hikes, bar games and world-class coffee.
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