On Friday, The United Nations said that nearly 30 aid workers in a remote and troubled part of South Sudan had been evacuated to a peacekeeping base "for their safety" following a rise in threats and attacks. The emergency relocation of humanitarian staff in Renk, in the country's far north, to a UN base comes just days after the EU, US and other foreign embassies expressed deep concern over a recent escalation in violence targeting aid workers in Africa's youngest country. A warehouse belonging to the Swiss-headquartered charity Medair in Renk was torched on Thursday by an angry mob, local officials and eyewitnesses said. In Renk, tensions had been building for weeks between aid organisations and young South Sudanese demanding jobs, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in a state...

Sudan and Israel have agreed to begin normalizing relations and set aside decades of hostility. On Friday, President Trump and leaders of both nations said that marking the third such accord brokered by the White House in the weeks is leading up to the U.S. presidential election. The deal does not immediately entail full diplomatic relations, for instance with an exchange of embassies, but it is an agreement to start discussions over normalization with an initial focus on economic and related matters. Inviting reporters into the Oval Office during a telephone conference, Trump announced the agreement in Washington as he held with Israeli and Sudanese leaders and praised what he called a peace agreement. Sudan becomes the third Arab country in recent weeks to establish ties with I...

The Covid Tracking Project, reported 83,010 new cases on Friday, citing data from local state health authorities in order t o keep a record check of deaths by corona virus. Jerome Adams, US Surgeon General, has warned that hospital admission numbers are growing, but mortality rates are falling due to better patient care. Pharma giants like AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson resume US vaccine trials after approval from regulators. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also warned that countries in the Northern Hemisphere are at a "critical juncture". Nearly 8.5 million cases of coronavirus have been reported in America since the pandemic began, according to the Covid Tracking Project. Over the last week, the US has tallied 441,541 new infections - its largest seven-day inc...

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old father, in broad daylight on Friday, beheading him near his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb about 15 miles (24 km) from the center of a Paris. The gruesome killing of the history teacher by an 18-year-old suspect of Chechen origin is testing the country’s fragile relationship with its Muslim minority, with growing fears of collective punishment. Paty’s attacker had been angered that he showed his pupils caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad while teaching a class about history because, according to the Islamic faith, caricatures of Prophets are condemned. There has been an outpouring of grief and shock among top officials; Paty on Wednesday posthumously received the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour, in a ceremony attended by President E...