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Briefing of KUNA main news for Wednesday until 00:00 GMT

RABAT - National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim arrived in Rabat to head a Kuwaiti delegation attending an emergency meeting of Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) on Al-Aqsa Mosque.

KUWAIT - Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) is considering the formation of an offshoot commercial firm, which trades in petroleum products, an official said on Wednesday.

AMMAN - Jordanian King Abdullah II stressed the importance of continuing concerted efforts to bring the situation at Al-Aqsa Mosque back to what it was before the outbreak of the ongoing crisis.

GAZA - Palestinian Hamas movement expressed its complete rejection of a European Court ruling continuing to list the movement on the terror list, stressing its continuous policy of defending the Palestinian people's rights.

TUNIS - Despite political breakthrough created by the recent Paris Agreement between Libyan political rivals, an imminent solution to the Libyan crisis is not on the cards due to major stumbling blocks.

MOSCOW - Russia has denied recent US and Western press claims on its involvement in arming the Taliban, calling such claims as incorrect.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged, indicating that the labor market has continued to "strengthen" and that economic activity has been "rising moderately" this year so far.(end) ibi