DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In the tiny, oil-rich sheikhdom of Kuwait, the foreigners who power the country’s economy, serve its society and make up 70% of its population are struggling to get coronavirus vaccines.
Unlike other Gulf Arab states that have administered doses to masses of foreign workers in a race to reach herd immunity, Kuwait has come under fire for vaccinating its own people first.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The half-brother of Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Saturday he has been placed under house arrest and accused the country’s “ruling system” of incompetence and corruption, exposing a rare rift within the ruling monarchy of a close Western ally.
Prince Hamzah’s videotaped statement came after the country’s official news agency reported that two former senior officials and other suspects had been arrested for “security reasons,” even as authorities denied that Hamzah had been detained or placed under house arrest.
CAIRO/KHARTOUM, Apr 3 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, flew to Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), for a new round of talks over Ethiopia’s Nile dam.
In a statement, the Egyptian foreign ministry said, Shoukry, along with Egypt’s water minister, headed to Kinshasa at an invitation from the DRC, the current chair of the African Union, for a new round of talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
CAIRO (Reuters) - Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said that all 422 ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given passed through the canal by Saturday, ending the backlog caused by the blockage.
(Reuters) - Iran’s government wants the United States to lift all sanctions on its country and rejects any “step-by-step” easing of the restrictions, Iranian state broadcaster Press TV reported on Saturday.
The two countries said on Friday they would hold indirect talks in Vienna from next week as part of broader negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and global powers. The U.S. State Department said the focus would be on “the nuclear steps that Iran would need to take in order to return to compliance” with that agreement.
TEHRAN, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that the fourth wave of COVID-19 resurgence has been registered in two provinces, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
"If people in other provinces do not honor (health guidelines), they may experience the fourth wave as well," Rouhani was quoted as saying.
"According to the statistics, compliance with health guidelines has decreased," he warned.
On Saturday, Iran's health ministry registered 11,420 new COVID-19 cases overnight, raising its nationwide caseload to 1,920,394.
ANKARA, April 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkey has recently witnessed a re-spike in daily COVID-19 cases and tightened its restrictive measures.
According to a statement by Health Minister Fahrettin Koca on his Twitter account, the surge in daily cases was mainly due to an increase in infections of the COVID-19 variant.
The Health Ministry said on Friday that it had officially recorded 42,308 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, the highest number of daily cases since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in the country more than a year ago.
02 Apr 2021; MEMO: Iraqi protesters, on Thursday, closed three oil facilities in Dhi Qar governorate (south) to protest against the omission of clauses relating to job opportunities in the recently approved federal budget.
On Wednesday, the Iraqi parliament approved the annual general budget with total expenditures amounting to 129 trillion Iraqi dinars (about $88 billion).
03 Apr 2021; MEMO: The military court in the city of Blida, north of Algeria, has sentenced former Director-General of Internal Security General Wassini Bouazza to 16 years in prison.
Bouazza, who was convicted on Wednesday on the last day of a three-day trial, has been in prison since April 2020 in relation to a number of cases.
Head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie has announced that Egypt is studying the expansion of the canal to avoid further incidents similar to the grounding of the Ever Given cargo ship, which lead to six days of navigation disruption.
On Thursday evening, Rabie confirmed to CNN that there is no need to increase the canal's depth (24 metres).
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