KUWAIT - Employment of non-Kuwaitis in the public sector is done according to civil service laws and other relevant State regulations, the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor affirmed.
FEZ - The Moroccan poet Fatma Bou-Hrakeh has chosen six Kuwaiti poets to enrich its encyclopedia "100 women poets from the Arab world, poems speaking of love and peace."
MAKKAH - Over two million pilgrims will gather in Mina Valley, in the Holy City of Makkah Wednesday to signal the start of this year's Hajj season.
BAGHDAD - Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has voiced objection to a recent agreement to transfer militants of the so-called Islamic State (IS) from western Syria to areas bordering Iraq.
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said that initial assessments indicate that the recent North Korean ballistic missile that flew over Japan was an intermediate range ballistic range missile (IRBM) and that it did not pose a threat to the US.
TOKYO - A squadron of four South Korean F-15K fighter jets staged a live-bombing drill against North Korea's leadership in response to its latest ballistic missile launch, Yonhap News Agency reported.
JEDDAH - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the renewed outbreak of violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar's western Rakhine State.
GENEVA - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Ibn Al-Hussein said that the political leadership in Myanmar should condemn any inflammatory rhetoric that could foment strife in the Southeast Asian state. (end) ibi