KUWAIT - Kuwait's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah applauded Britain's support of Kuwaiti efforts to resolve the Gulf crisis as he received the British chief diplomat.
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry stated that two security personnel were injured in a terrorist attack that targeted a security patrol in the Saudi governorate of Al-Qatif.
CAIRO - Two Egyptian police officers were killed and nine soldiers were injured in an explosion caused by a booby-trapped bomb targeting an armored vehicle in Al-Safa neighborhood in Al-Arish, a security source said.
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday leaders of the G20 countries approved a final communique including most of the issues discussed during their summit, which began in Hamburg yesterday.
AMMAN - Syria rejected Israel's decision to organize local elections in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, considering it a "blatant violation" of the international law. (end) mb