KUWAIT - The Council of Ministers held its weekly meeting at Bayan Palace, chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
KUWAIT - The State of Kuwait affirmed it was closely following up on events taking place in the sisterly Republic of Yemen, expressing unwavering support for the legitimate Yemeni Government.
KUWAIT - The Ministry of Information urged the local media and social media users to get information and statements related to external affairs from the official Kuwaiti Government authorities.
KUWAIT - Minister of Justice Counselor Nasser Al-Sumait said the State of Kuwait's accession to the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention on Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict bolsters protection of the historic, cultural and religious heritage in such events.
CAIRO - The Arab League condemned the Israeli Knesset's approval of an act cutting electricity and water supplies to the offices of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
RAMALLAH - A 20-year-old Palestinian embraced martyrdom when Israeli occupation troops targeted a vehicle with gunfire south of the city of Nablus, a Palestinian authority said.
RAMALLAH - The Israeli occupation government has begun procedures to revoke operating licenses of a number of international relief organizations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
GAZA - Health authorities warned that cancer patients in the Gaza Strip face grave danger that could lead to many deaths due to the Israeli occupation's insistence on keeping crossings closed and allowing only minimal cancer medicines to enter.
MADRID - Spanish Digital Transformation minister Oscar Lopez said the government has banned more than 200 commercial transaction related to military and defensive components with Israeli companies since September.
NEW YORK - The Arab Group at the UN expressed its refusal and utter condemnation of the Israeli occupation's step to recognize the so-called "Somaliland". (end) ibi