KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, visited Jaber Causeway Vaccination Center in collaboration with the Ministry of Health throughout a period of three days. 

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s Congress passed a bill paving the way to privatize the biggest electric utility in Latin America, state-controlled company Eletrobras, a victory for far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s privatization agenda. 

LONDON: Bitcoin fell underneath $30,000 yesterday for the first time in five months, hit by concerns over China’s ongoing crackdown on the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. 

ASHGABAT: Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat has overtaken Hong Kong as the world’s most expensive city for foreign workers, a survey showed yesterday. 

WASHINGTON: The global economy has surpassed its pre-pandemic peak, data survey firm IHS Markit said Monday, as the recovery accelerates thanks to vaccination and the end of pandemic-related restrictions. 

SYDNEY: An Australian company yesterday officially launched operations for Cambodia’s first commercial gold mine in the kingdom’s resource-rich northeast, officials said. 

BERLIN: Germany on Monday opened an investigation against Apple over anti-competition practices, making the iPhone maker the fourth US tech giant to be hit by such probes. 

BEIJING: Bitcoin tumbled more than 10 per cent Monday after China broadened a crackdown on its massive cryptocurrency mining industry with a ban on mines in a key southwestern province. 

WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on dozens of Belarusian officials in a coordinated move with Western allies to hit strongman Alexander Lukashenko after the forced landing of a commercial plane.