KUWAIT -- Under the auspices of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the ceremony for inking the engineering-supply-construction contract for building Mina Mubarak Al-Kabeer (port) on Boubyan island was singed.
BRUSSELS -- Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said that the announcement by the Israeli security cabinet to establish and legalize 19 settlements in the West Bank constitutes a "blatant and unacceptable violation of international law."
MOSCOW -- Russia expressed "full support" for Venezuela as the South American country confronts a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers by US forces deployed in the Caribbean.
MUSCAT -- Kuwait's national shooting team on Monday won two more medals in the Arab Pistol and Rifle Shooting Championship. (end) mb