BEIJING: More than 200 billionaires were created in China last year as booming stock markets and a flood of new listings offset the ravages of the virus pandemic, according to a global tally released yesterday. 

KUWAIT: Zain Group, the leading mobile telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announced its inclusion in the global list of the CDP with an advanced rating in Management Scope ‘B’ for the Climate Change Index. 

BRUSSELS: The rise in eurozone consumer prices steadied in February, official data showed yesterday, as the slump in energy prices sharply slowed despite the enduring pandemic. The Eurostat agency said inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro ran at 0.9 percent last month, the same as in January.

KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday recorded 1,341 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, raising the caseload of infections to 193,372, in addition to seven new deaths, taking the death toll to 1,092. 

DUBAI: The United Nations said it hopes to raise $3.85 billion yesterday to prevent large-scale famine in Yemen, warning that life in the war-ravaged nation was unbearable, with children enduring a “special kind of hell”.

NIKEL, Russia: Freezing winds blow through a vast hangar in the Russian Arctic, where giant, once-gleaming machines are still, and a layer of snow has covered empty vats. 

KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait announced profits of KD 28 million for the 2020 fiscal year, an increase of over 190 percent compared to 2019, when the company recorded a profit of KD 9.6 million. 

GENEVA: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said she was eager to get straight to work as she took up her role yesterday as the first woman and first African to lead the beleaguered World Trade Organization. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait announced yesterday that 1,179 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the previous 24 hours, while two patients passed away during the same period, taking the total cases to 192,031 and deaths to 1,085.