KUWAIT - Kuwait's confirmed coronavirus cases increased by 345 to 103,544 with four people having succumbed to the disease raising the death toll to 601 in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.
RIYADH - Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf welcomed a deal reached earlier today by the Yemeni government and Houthi group to immediately release a first group of 1,081 conflict-related detainees and prisoners.
MOSCOW - Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev declared a state of war on Armenia, after escalating tensions between the neighbouring nations in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh enclave.
WASHINGTON - The US voiced alarm by reports of "large scale military action" along the Line of Contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, condemning "in the strongest terms this escalation of violence." (end) ibi