KUWAIT - Kuwaiti Information Minister Abdulrahman Al-Mutairi praised the success of Hajj season.
KUWAIT - The Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) said that firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out earlier at Unit No. 12 of the Al-Zour Refinery.
RIYADH - The Saudi Foreign Ministry summoned Sweden's envoy to Riyadh, informing her that the Kingdom unequivocal rejects the burning of a copy of the Quran by an extremist outside a mosque in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.
ISLAMABAD - At least three policemen and a personnel of Frontier Constabulary were killed in an attack by militants targeting a security check post in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province. (end) ibi