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Cyclone Idai: Flood area covers 3,000 sq km
Entire villages have been destroyed and 100,000 people remain completely cut off
Around 15 thousand people await rescue in Mozambique - still trapped by flood waters after the huge cyclone. Aid agencies say reaching them is a challenge.
A damning report has been published into the safety of asylum seekers held in UK detention centres.
And it's World Poetry Day - and we hear from some of you about what poetry means to you.
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