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"At least 800,000 people in the path of the cyclone need emergency food assistance" says Anthea Webb, the World Food Programme's deputy director for Asia and the Pacific. Reporting on the impact of Cyclone Mocha five days after the devastating storm barrelled through Myanmar, Webb adds that "greater needs for food, shelter, water, health and other humaniarian aid are expected to be revealed". Earlier on Friday, Myanmar's ruling junta said the death toll had risen to 145 in the country. SOUNDBITE
Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, in addition to hundreds of thousands who have been displaced inside the country, says UN refugee agency spokesperson Olga Sarrado. SOUNDBITE
People run away from the site of a strike in Lviv after the city in western Ukraine was hit by two missiles. Smoke billows through the air. The target is a fuel storage facility. IMAGES
People gather outside the airport in Dhaka to welcome Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus who has returned to Bangladesh to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina. IMAGES
Bangladeshis leave their coastal homes for concrete storm shelters further inland as the low-lying nation prepares for the expected landfall of Cyclone Remal on Sunday evening. IMAGES
People queue outside of a supermarket as 80 to 90 per cent of the grocery distribution network in New Caledonia's Noumea had been "wiped out", according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), following the four nights of violent clashes that have left five dead and hundreds wounded. IMAGES
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