VIENNA -- Kuwait's Oil Minister Dr. Khaled Al-Fadhel says his country, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates lobbied successfully for the OPEC Plus pledge to cut oil production by 500,000 barrels a day.
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Interior Ministry opens an investigation into an attack, launched by unknown gunmen, on a protest rally in central Baghdad that killed 10 people and wounded dozens of others.
WASHINGTON -- The US House of Representatives pass a symbolic measure backing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - an implicit rebuke to President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump is given a full briefing after four people are shot dead, including the shooter, at a navy base in Florida.
2840030 BAGHDAD -- Iraqi customs officers thwart an attempt to smuggle drugs to Kuwait through the Safwan border crossing.
WASHINGTON -- US Defence Secretary Mark Esper refutes as false, recent press reports that his country plans to deploy additional troops to the Middle East in support of units stationed there.
PARIS -- French transport unions maintain their strike, which paralysed the country yesterday, in protest at government plans to reform the retirement system. (end) sd