RIYADH -- Saudi Royal Air Defenses intercept a Houthi-shot drone, loaded with explosives, headed towards King Abdullah Airport in the southern Saudi city of Jizan.
JEDDAH -- Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz receives Kuwait National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah.
MUSCAT -- Oman's foreign affairs-tasked minister Yousef bin Alawi and visiting Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi discuss the current regional situation.
BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi court sentences three French nationals to death for joining the so-called Islamic state (IS), giving them one month to appeal the verdict.
MORONI -- Kuwait Red Crescent distributes 210 food baskets in five villages affected by Cyclone Kenneth in the capital of Comoros, Moroni.
AMMAN -- A Kuwaiti Defense Ministry plane delivers 13 tonnes of relief aid, raised by a Kuwaiti charity, to Syrian refugees in Jordan.
IRBIL -- Five Iraqis are killed and eight others injured after a car bomb explodes west of Nineveh province in the northern city of Mosul.
BRUSSELS -- Preliminary results from 11 out of 28 European Union countries show anti-EU parties projected to make gains and the leading two parties, European People's Party (EPP) and Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), suffering losses.
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan and China sign a number of agreements for cooperation accross different sectors, during the visit of Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan to Islamabad, Pakistani media reports. (end) sd