AYRSHIRE, Scotland - His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the official delegation accompanying him visited His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.
AYRSHIRE, Scotland - His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah visited the King's Foundation at Dumfries House in Ayrshire County in Scotland.
KUWAIT - His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah visited headquarters of the Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (NAZAHA) updating his financial disclosure data.
KUWAIT - Minister of Finance, Minister of State for Economic Affairs and Investments Nora Al-Fassam said her department is preparing the selective taxation law targeting commodities harmful to human health, with projections the levies would reap KD 200 million (USD 648.3 million) per year.
BAGHDAD - The Kuwait Red Crescent Society announced the initiation of a health center project in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
KUWAIT - The fourth relief plane of the Kuwaiti air bridge departed, heading to Damascus International Airport with 40 tons of aid and medical supplies, as part of "Kuwait by Your Side" humanitarian campaign.
KUWAIT - Kuwait's military will be launching shooting drill using live ammunition at Al-Adera' range northwest of the country, January 15 to 23, the Kuwait Armed Forces said.
KUWAIT - The Ministry of Information has set up a system for screening movies, informing cinema goes about compatibility of the movie on show with age categories. CAIRO - KUNA's Deputy Director-General Mohammad Al-Mannai and President of the Egyptian Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) Khaled Abdulaziz asserted the importance of strengthening media cooperation between Kuwait and Egypt.
DOHA - Qatar's Prime Minister announced that the joint mediation efforts secured a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner swap deal between the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Israeli occupation.
WASHINGTON - US President-elect Donald Trump claimed credit for the Gaza ceasefire and prisoner swap deal, stressing that only his election victory made it happen.
RAMALLAH - Five Palestinians were killed, and two others critically injured evening in an airstrike carried out by Israeli occupation forces targeting the Jenin refugee camp. (end) ibi