SAN FRANCISCO: After a wildly successful first few days, Threads popularity has waned in the weeks since Meta launched its challenge to Twitter, which lives on despite its problems.

TOKYO:  Japan’s consumer prices rose 3.3 percent year-on-year in June, with the pace of inflation accelerating from the 3.2 percent recorded in May, government data showed Friday.

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden evoked AI’s “enormous” risk and promise Friday at a White House meeting with tech leaders who committed to guarding against everything from cyber-attacks to fraud as the sector revolutionizes society.

NEW DELHI: Energy ministers from the group of 20 nations meeting in India Saturday failed to agree on a roadmap to phase down the use of fossil fuels in the global energy mix. A final statement after the meeting did not even mention coal, a major contributor to global warming.

MUMBAI: The world’s biggest rice exporter India has banned some overseas sales of the grain “with immediate effect”, the government said, in a move that could drive international prices even higher.

TOKYO, July 20 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's trade surplus with Japan narrowed 33.4 percent from a year earlier to JPY 67.9 billion (USD 487 million) in June, down for the third consecutive month due to weak exports, government data showed on Thursday.

NEW YORK, July 20 (KUNA) -- Secretary-General of the Kuwaiti Supreme Council for Planning and Development (SCPD) Dr. Khaled Mahdi reviewed Kuwait's second national voluntary report on its response to the Covid-19 pandemic and relevant international cooperation, mainly with World Health Organization (WHO).

WASHINGTON: US industrial production fell by more than analysts expected last month, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday, with a sharp contraction in output seen in consumer durables like automotive products and carpeting.

BRUSSELS, July 19 (KUNA) -- European Union (EU) annual inflation was 6.4 percent in June, down from 7.1 percent in May. A year earlier, the rate was 9.6 percent.