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Others such as Columbia University, the epicentre of pro-Palestinian campus protests last year, have agreed to some demands after $400 million of federal funds was threatened.

Vancouver, a cultural and economic hub with a population of less than one million, is often seen as the epicentre of Canada's housing crisis.

He got a shot in college, and another in February, when his hometown became the epicentre of one of the country's worst measles outbreaks in a decade.

Roads, water services and buildings including hospitals have been destroyed, especially in Mandalay, the hard-hit city near the epicentre.

The convoy was en route to Mandalay, the hard-hit city near the epicentre of the magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck last Friday.