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

NEW YORK -- Kuwait's Security Council-adopted draft resolution on missing persons during armed conflicts closes a gap in international law on government responsibilities in relation, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister says.

NEW YORK -- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres congratulates Kuwait on a huge success after the United Nations Security Council adoption its drafted resolution on missing persons in armed conflicts.

KUWAIT -- Kuwait records its highest-ever electricity consumption rate after temperatures soar to 50 degrees Celsius and above, a Ministry of Electricity and Water official reveals.

MOSCOW-- Moldova opts to transfer its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the midst of a political crisis gripping the country.

KUWAIT -- Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim receives a request from MPs to task the parliament's committee on financial and economic affairs with investigating all points of the grilling of Finance Minister Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf.

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdulmahdi says that his country is in the process of recovering some 15,000 stolen antiquities from the US.

KHARTOUM -- Talks between Sudan's ruling military council and the opposition Freedom and Change Declaration will continue as soon as possible, an Ethiopian mediator says.

KUWAIT -- Kuwait National Library launches the Digital Library "Kuwait Memory", chronicling national intellectual, artistic and media heritage. (end) sd