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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
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
More than half a million people rally in Barcelona in protests sparked by Spain's sentencing of nine Catalan separatist leaders to long prison terms over an abortive independence bid. IMAGES
'Million Reasons' hitmaker Lady Gaga's recent criticism of Madonna was a "half-serious joke", documentary director Chris Moukarbel has claimed.