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Four boats carrying some 1,400 Rohingya migrants were rescued off the coasts of Indonesia and Malaysia on May 11, officials said, a day after nearly 600 others arrived in a wooden vessel off Indonesia's Aceh.

MEPs called for more measures to prevent the loss of migrant lives in the Mediterranean, including more funding for search and rescue missions, during the plenary session on April 27-30.

As the death toll reached 6621 people, the authorities in Nepal ruled out the possibility of finding any more survivors from the disastrous earthquake, which hit the country on April 25.

According to the latest official information, the number of people, who were injured in the earthquake, stood at 14 021.

Authorities in Thailand uncovered a mass grave in an abandoned jungle camp May 1 believed to contain the remains of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, a grisly find in a region notorious for people-smuggling routes.

BELGRADE - First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met with Ambassador of Bangladesh to Serbia Shahadat Hossain, who covers Serbia on non-residential basis from Rome, and on the occasion discussed possibilities to strengthen economic and other forms of cooperation.

Nikolic receives credentials from five new ambassadors

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolic received on Monday the letters of credence from the newly appointed ambassadors of Bangladesh, Uruguay, Malta, Jamaica and Laos.

They serve as non-resident ambassadors to Serbia.

At least 758 have been confirmed dead in a devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale in Nepal.

The quake struck about 80 kilometers northwest of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, shortly before noon local time, according to the US Geological Survey. It was followed by strong aftershocks.

An earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter shook Nepal between the capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara in tremors felt as far as Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. A national police spokesman said that 700 people had been killed across the country, rescuers are digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings trying to reach survivors, estimated to number hundreds.

A powerful earthquake struck Nepal, killing hundreds of people, toppling an historic tower and touching off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on April 25, killing hundreds of people, toppling an historic 19th-century tower in the capital Kathmandu and touching off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest. 

Italian police have arrested two suspected people traffickers among the survivors of the migrant boat that capsized off Libya on April 19, as the UN said 800 people were killed in the Mediterranean's worst migrant disaster.