KUWAIT: More than one million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given to people in Kuwait. The Ministry of Health have not confirmed the number of vaccinated people, Al-Jarida reported yesterday. 

BRUSSELS: Negotiations were difficult and the plan got off to a slow start, but Europe’s huge post-coronavirus recovery fund may make its first payments in July. 

PUURS, Belgium: The EU coronavirus vaccine program will secure enough doses to immunize 70 percent of adults by the end of July, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Friday. 

GENEVA: World leaders united Friday to demand $19 billion of investment in weapons to beat the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the “miracle” of vaccines did not mean the end was in sight. 

WASHINGTON: Could the planet finally be on track to limiting climate change? After US President Joe Biden ramped up ambitions with a climate summit, experts are cautiously saying yes – although a difficult path lies ahead. 

ISTANBUL: Turkish prosecutors yesterday opened an investigation after the Istanbul-based founder of a cryptocurrency exchange shut down his site and fled the country with a reported $2 billion in investors’ assets. 

PARIS: Toxic air that chokes Indian cities and kills hundreds of thousands of people also carries a grim economic burden for the country’s companies of around $95 billion a year, according to researchers who urged firms to lead the drive against pollution. 

KARAPINAR, Turkey: Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains, worrying farmers as they spread and creep closer to residential homes. 

HUAROCHIRI, Peru: In the mountains of western Peru, a farming community is restoring a network of stone canals built more than a millennium ago, hoping the pre-Columbian technology holds the solution to its water problems.