World News in Brief: April 6

The death toll from Myanmar's earthquake reached 3,564 as of Sunday evening, the Information Team of Myanmar's State Administration Council reported. In addition, 5,012 people were injured and 210 remained missing due to the earthquake.
A displaced Palestinian child is seen at a school-turned shelter in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, on April 5, 2025. (Photo: Xinhua)
A displaced Palestinian child is seen at a school-turned shelter in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, on April 5, 2025. (Photo: Xinhua)

* A total of 89 aftershocks have hit Myanmar in the 10 days since a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck the country, the country's Department of Meteorology and Hydrology said on Sunday.

* Australia's opposition party has announced it will further cut the country's international student intake if it wins power in the country's general election.

* China's foreign exchange reserves have remained higher than 3.2 trillion USD for 16 straight months, official data showed on Monday.

* US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the United States is canceling all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and suspending the issuance of new ones.

* Lebanese President Joseph Aoun held "constructive" talks on Saturday with U.S. Deputy Envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus, discussing the situation in southern Lebanon and the border with Syria, a statement said.

* Angolan President Joao Lourenco, who currently serves as the acting chair of the African Union (AU), has proposed Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe as the AU mediator in the peace process between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, according to a statement released Saturday by the Angolan presidency on social media.

* At least 26 Palestinians were killed, and 113 others wounded by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, the Gaza-based health authorities said on Sunday.

* Libyan security forces aligned with the country's eastern government arrested some 570 undocumented migrants of various nationalities and several suspected human traffickers near the border town of Imsa'ed on Saturday, eastern authorities said.

* British Airways, the flagship airline of Britain, resumed operations in Israel after more than six months of suspension, with a flight departing from London's Heathrow Airport and landing at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv on Sunday.

* London's new Silvertown Tunnel is scheduled to open on April 7, marking the city's first new road tunnel under the River Thames in more than three decades, according to Transport for London (TfL).

* Fierce storms have battered vast swathes of the US Midwest and South for four days, unleashing hundreds of tornadoes, heavy rains and historic flooding that had claimed at least 16 lives as of Saturday night.

* A helicopter crashed on Sunday during a fire extinguishing operation in the Republic of Korea’s Daegu city, the fire department has said. The pilot seemed to have been killed in the accident, the fire department said.

Xinhua