KUWAIT - Minster of State for Housing Affairs Yasser Abel inks a contract with an international consortium to build the infrastructure of the South Metla'e city.
KUWAIT - The death toll of a fire that broke out at a house in Farwaniya rises to nine people and 12 others were injured.
NEW YORK - UN Security Council condemns "the heinous and cowardly" terrorist attack at the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey.
BRUSSELS - The EU and Turkey hold the 12th meeting of Turkey's membership talks amid signs of an improvement in EU-Turkey ties.
MOSCOW - Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says his country will start to gradually lift the commercial sanctions on Turkey.
PARIS - France declares that it destroyed all stocks of controversial cluster bombs and calls on other states to do so. (end) gb