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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh and Myanmar braced Sunday as a severe cyclone started to hit coastal areas and authorities urged thousands of people

Authorities urged thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter

Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday in monasteries, pagodas and schools, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing the roofs off buildings and killing at least three people

Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday in monasteries, pagodas and schools, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing the roofs off buildings and killing at least three people.

Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday in monasteries, pagodas and schools, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing the roofs off buildings and killing at least three people.

Bangladesh and Myanmar braced Sunday as a severe cyclone started to hit coastal areas and authorities urged thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter. The outermost band of Cyclone Mocha, with winds of 180-190 kph (112-118 mph), and gusts of up to 210 kph (130 mph) per hour, reached the coast of Myanmar’s Rakhine state on Sunday morning. By afternoon, the center of the storm was expected to make landfall near Sittwe township, which was under the highest weather alert, Myanmar’s M...

Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that slammed into the coast of Myanmar, tearing the roofs off buildings and killing at least three people.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Thousands of people hunkered down Sunday in monasteries, pagodas and schools, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that sla

Russia's Defense Ministry on Sunday said that Ukrainian forces made "mass attempts" to break through its defenses in the city of Bakhmut over the past 24 hours, Russian news agencies reported. "All attacks by units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been repelled. There have been no breakthroughs of the Russian troops' defenses," Interfax quoted Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov as saying.

The United Nations is set to kick off the process of unloading the cargo of the eroding Safer tanker off the coast of Yemen. A UN vessel has arrived in Yemen and the 1.1 million barrels of oil held on Safer will be unloaded in it. The operation should take up eight months in line with a UN plan that was received by the Yemeni government and Iran-backed Houthi militias. The whole operation is set to cost $148 million. The first phase, lasting about three months, will cost $129 million.