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Briefing of KUNA main news for Thursday until 12:00 GMT

DOHA -- Qatar Airways suspends its flights to Irbil and Sulaimaniyah cities in northern Iraq in coordination with the civil aviation authorities in the fellow Arab country.

BEIRUT -- A unified Arab effort is needed to face the negative impacts of climate change on the earth atmosphere, says a Kuwaiti official on sideline of UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) event in Beirut.

KUALA LUMPUR -- Kuwaiti Ambassador to Malaysia Saad Al-Asousi delivers Thursday an invitation from His Highness the Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak.

TOKYO -- Kuwait's crude oil exports to China in August hit a 11-month high of 1.74 million tons, equivalent to 410,000 barrels per day (bpd), up 18.2 percent from a year earlier, official data shows on Thursday.

BRUSSELS -- Kuwaiti parliamentary friendship delegation, headed by MP Shuaib Al-Muwaizri, meets on Wednesday with Speaker of the Dutch House of Representatives Khadija Arib.

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolves on Thursday the Lower House of parliament for a snap election next month. (end) gta