Kuwait: Zain’s Iftar initiative to serve fasting individuals continues throughout the entirety of the Holy Month of Ramadan.

HANOI: Vietnam faces nearly $3 billion a year in crop losses as more saltwater seeps into arable land, state media reported Sunday, citing new research.

KUWAIT: February spending in the US recovered slightly (0.6 percent) after a January dip (revised -1.1 percent). It is likely that cold weather deterred January purchases, while the ever so resilient job market and wage growth support spending.

WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep its key lending rate unchanged again on Wednesday, as policymakers continue discussions over when to start rate cuts and launch the next phase in their long-running battle against inflation.

WASHINGTON: The global economy is growing faster compared to the difficult pandemic period when global output contracted and slowly recovered thereafter although it still lacks dynamism, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a report.

AUSTIN, US: For people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google’s Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence can give tech titans.

KUWAIT: The board of directors of Al-Safat Investment Company approved the annual financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, which included the company’s results achieving profits of KD 1,039,772, equivalent to 3.55 fils per share.

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations appealed Friday for Sudan’s battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief to fend off looming “catastrophic” hunger.

PARIS: Humanity’s failure to reduce planet-heating carbon pollution - at record levels in 2023 - has thrust once-marginal options for capping or reducing CO2 in the atmosphere to centre stage.