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At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
Huge crowds take to the streets of Warsaw in response to the opposition's call for an anti-government demonstration, "the biggest for some thirty years" according to the organisers, who were expecting 300,000 people. IMAGES
The World Health Organization says that Europe and Central Asia could see another half a million deaths by February next year. SOUNDBITE from Director of WHO Europe Hans Kluge
New York, May 13 (EFE/EPA).- A vibrant, large-scale portrait that Pablo Picasso painted of his muse and lover Marie-Thérèse Walter fetched a huge $103.4 million on Thursday at a Christie's auction in New York.The bidding for "Femme Assise Près d’une Fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)" started at $45 million and shortly after surpassed $55 million, the top estimate of the auction house experts, to stop at $90 million, to which fees and taxes were later added.The astronomical price was reached after an almost 20-minute battle between two phone buyers. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF 'FEMME ASSISE PRÈS D’UNE FENÊTRE (MARIE-THÉRÈSE)' BY PABLO PICASSO AT CHRISTIE'S AUCTION HOUSE IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK, US.SHOT LIST:
US President Joe Biden will order flags on all US federal buildings to be lowered to half mast in commemoration of the imminent half million mark in the country's death toll from Covid-19, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters. SOUNDBITE