KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health said yesterday 174 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, while no deaths were reported. 

WASHINGTON: The US Senate approved and President Donald Trump signed a one-week budget stopgap Friday that avoids a government shutdown and allows lawmakers to continue negotiations over getting pandemic relief to millions of Americans.

LONDON: Britain is to end government funding for fossil fuel projects overseas, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday, on the eve of an international climate change summit.

KUWAIT: Boursa Kuwait participated in the ‘Investing in Kuwait’ virtual forum, the third in a series of digital briefing events held from London Silicon Valley, and online. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health (MOH) reiterated the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines as the country has opened online registration to the public for vaccination against the deadly virus. The new service, available via a link on the Ministry’s website, went operational Thursday, allowing people to register in order to be inoculated at a future date to be determined later.

SIPPOLA, Finland: On a barren expanse of bog in southeast Finland the size of 180 football pitches, Taisto Raussi’s yellow harvester hoovers up a thin layer of rich peat and deposits it in a heap, to be sold as fuel. 

BEIJING: China’s plan to fund dozens of foreign coal plants from Zimbabwe to Indonesia is set to produce more emissions than major developed nations, threatening global efforts to fight climate change, environmentalists have warned. 

WASHINGTON: US federal and state antitrust enforcers filed suit against Facebook on Wednesday claiming the social media giant abused its dominant position and seeking to unwind its acquisitions of messaging services Instagram and WhatsApp. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait reported 291 new coronavirus infections on Thursday to raise the total number of cases to 145,495, while five deaths recorded over the past 24 hours upped the death toll from the outbreak to 910, the health ministry said.