A Sudanese United Nations staff member working for the World Food Programme has been shot dead in the disputed Sudanese region of South Kordofan, as negotiations for a ceasefire continue to take place.

Fighting between government troops and rebel forces has caused a humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 200,000 people displaced since last June.

Whilst the Sudanese government blamed rebels for the attack, just two days after a WFP compound was ransacked and looted, the rebels claimed that the area was under government control.

A deal allowing for humanitarian access was agreed upon, with Sudan stating that,

Bahrain authorities have been accused by a US based human rights group of ‘weaponising’ tear gas against protesters.

Physicians for Human Rights said the indiscriminate use of tear gas against civilians has resulted in maiming, blinding and even death, as at least 30 have died since protests sparked off last year.

The government of Bahrain has denied the accusations saying that international standards are followed by its security forces.

The British Foreign Office has released a statement after a junior diplomat from it’s North Korean Embassy was photographed enjoying a rollercoaster ride with the country’s new leader, Kim Jong-Un.

The release of the photograph with British chargé d'affaires Barnaby Jones, comes soon after Kim Jong-Un publicly announced that he was married.

The UK Foreign Office said,

Sudan and South Sudan reached an agreement on oil on Saturday, following an extension of Thursday's deadline.

The agreement includes the exportation of South Sudanese oil through Sudan's pipelines, and the distribution of oil revenues.

Twenty people were sentenced in the Xinjiang region of China on charges of terrorism and separatism, reported China's state media - People's Daily - on Thursday.

All twenty are believed to be Uighurs - Muslim, Turkic speaking people who consider Xinjiang to be their home.

The People's Daily report, said,

Bangladeshi authorities have told three international aid agencies to stop providing support to Rohingya refugees who arrived from neighbouring Burma.

Officials claim that the agencies are exceeding their mandate by supporting illegal migrants and that the aid was encouraging more Rohingyas to cross the border.

British based Muslim Aid and French NGOs Médecins Sans Frontières and Action Contre La Faim are the charities which have been blocked from providing aid.

The UN Security Council on Thursday demanded for an end to all foreign support being given to the M23 rebels fighting against the government in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The statement voiced a “strong condemnation of any and all outside support to the M23 and demand that all support to the M23, including from outside countries, cease immediately.”

The UN Security Council deadline for Sudan and South Sudan to negotiate a peace agreement has passes, as extra time is granted to further develop negotiations.

France’s UN ambassador and current president of the Security Council, Gerard Araud, said, “clearly Sudan and South Sudan have not fulfilled all the conditions laid down, although progress has been achieved.”

The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution condemning the Syrian government’s use of heavy weaponry as it battles against rebel forces, in the midst of Kofi Annan stepping down as the UN and Arab League negotiator for Syria.

The resolution passed earlier on Friday also goes on to condemn the UN Security Council for failing to make Syria comply with earlier UN  decisions.

Colonel Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam said he wants to be transferred to The Hague to face trial.

"I am not afraid to die but if you execute me after such a trial you should just call it murder and be done with it," Saif al-Islam said according to documents submitted to the ICC by his lawyers.

He has already been indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity, but Libya has refused to hand him over till now.