NEW DELHI: Indian police fired tear gas and water cannon yesterday in clashes with several thousand farmers marching to New Delhi to protest against recent agricultural reforms. 

TEL AVIV: A flight operated by budget airline flydubai landed in Tel Aviv yesterday, the first scheduled commercial service between the two cities following the normalization of ties between the UAE and Israel. 

KUWAIT: Chairman of Al-Safat Investment Co Abdullah Hamad AlTerkait stressed that the company is on the verge of a new phase of development and growth, in light of the balanced strategy it employs. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait listed 330 new coronavirus infections yesterday, taking the total number of cases to 141,547, while one fatality was recorded over the past 24 hours, upping the death toll from the outbreak to 872, the health ministry said. 

FRANKFURT: The prospect of former Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen becoming the next US Treasury Secretary is “good news” for the US and the world, ECB vice president Luis de Guindos said yesterday. 

GUERGUERAT, Undefined: Kamal Zerfi has long run a junkyard in a no-man’s land on the far edge of the Sahara desert. Then government soldiers came and things took a turn for the worse. 

LAGOS, Nigeria: More than 200 million Nigerians will slide further into poverty as the coronavirus pandemic has sent oil prices tumbling and pushed Africa’s largest economy into recession. 

KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) celebrated the commissioning of crude oil distillation unit no 111 at Mina Abdullah refinery yesterday. 

KUWAIT: Kuwait listed 422 new coronavirus cases yesterday which the Ministry of Health said were registered over the previous 24 hours, raising total infections to 141,217. Meanwhile, one patient died over the past 24 hours, which upped Kuwait’s COVID-19 death toll to 871, the health ministry said.