The Central Parity rate of the Chinese currency Renminbi, or the Yuan, strengthened one pip to 7.1795 against the dollar on Wednesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.

Finance leaders from the Group of 20 (G20) major economies welcomed “advanced work” toward finalisation of a memorandum of understand for Zambia’s debt treatment and “ongoing progress” in the case of Ghana.

An independent UN human rights expert, Siobhán Mullally, has expressed concern over the increased risk of recruitment and use of children by armed forces and armed groups in Sudan, as the months-long war between rival militaries continues.

The Israeli military has continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip in response to coordinated attacks by the Islamist group Hamas.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, on Friday said at least 13 hostages captured by Hamas were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in the past 24 hours.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has offered his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant further support following the unprecedented killing of Israeli civilians by the Islamist militant group Hamas

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 1 pip to 7.1775 against the dollar on Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.In China’s spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two per cent from the central parity rate each trading day.

Several hundred people gathered for a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Vienna on Wednesday in spite of a ban to stop it.