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Kuwait's position towards Israel is unchanged after its accord with the United Arab Emirates and it will be the last country to normalise relations, newspaper alQabas reported on Sunday citing Kuwaiti government sources.

Israel closed the Gaza Strip's offshore fishing zone Sunday following a night of crossborder fighting with Palestinian militants, the most intense escalation of hostilities in recent months.

South Korea on Sunday reported 279 new cases on Sunday, more than double the 103 reported on Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection campaign will sink millions of dollars into a digital ad campaign next week during the Democratic presidential convention, a Trump campaign spokesman said on Saturday.

Presidential elections in the US will held on November 3 and the 77-year-old is challenging incumbent Republican President Donald Trump in the polls.

The leaders of Russia and Belarus agreed on Saturday that the problems in Belarus would be resolved soon, the Kremlin said, as tens of thousands took to the streets in Minsk once again to urge President Alexander Lukashenko to quit.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Washington had suffered a humiliating defeat in its bid to get a U.N. arms embargo on Tehran extended.

Former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, known as Big Jim during a long career that eventually made him the state's longestserving chief executive, has died. He was 84.

The partner of a man who died in the protests engulfing Belarus says she does not believe the official account that Alexander Taraikovsky was killed when an explosive device that he intended to throw at police blew up in his hand.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw on Saturday where the two discussed a new defence agreement and their support for the people of Belarus.

Ebselen, a chemical compound with anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidative, bactericidal and cell-protective properties, is used to treat bipolar disorder and loss of hearing.

For farmworkers in California's Coachella Valley, it's brutally simple: no work means no food. But fear of contracting COVID19 and spreading it amongst their families has created uncertainty and anxiety.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his group would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion, but if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would "pay an equal price".

Japanese Emperor Naruhito expressed "deep remorse" over the country’s wartime past and prayed for world peace on Saturday, the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two.

After months without museums, cinemas and bars, Mexico City residents began exploring them again this week, even as authorities continue battling the coronavirus pandemic that has so far killed over 55,000 people in Mexico.

A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier conducted exercises in the contested South China Sea on Friday, the U.S. navy said in a statement.