Sierra Leone's ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma left the West African country by plane and flew to Nigeria on Friday, two Reuters reporters said, after a court allowed him to travel abroad on medical grounds despite treason charges.

Israel’s plan to destroy the Palestinian movement Hamas is 10% complete, Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Israeli official.

The representative of the Palestinian Authority in Germany, Laith Arafeh, has thanked pro-Palestinian demonstrators for their support.

South Africa on Monday called for the United Nations to deploy a rapid protection force to protect civilians in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza from further bombardment.

Four ambulances have brought injured people from the Gaza Strip to the Rafah border crossing with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The Ukrainian military said on Monday that it had hit a Russian air defence base on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in an attack with naval drones and missiles.

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the Yuan, strengthened 1 pips to 7.1796 against the U.S. dollar Friday.

 The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has reiterated the call for immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war ongoing between Israel and militant group Hamas.