The Philippines will stop sending new workers to Kuwait for now (partial deployment ban) while the authorities are looking into the recent killing of a Filipino worker allegedly in the hands of her female employer; Philippine Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello was quoted as saying in Manila according ChinaDaily.com.cn. “We will declare partial deployment ban which means that we will not deploy new Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs),” Bello told reporters, referring to overseas Filipino workers.

At the yard of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt celebrated on Saturday in an open-air ceremony setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest mosaic of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun’s mask made of coffee cups.

A Sacramento woman was poisoned by a skin-lightening cream, rendering her comatose. Hers was the first case of methylmercury poisoning linked to a skin cream in the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

The temperature recorded by the Safdurjung laboratory at 2:30 pm was 9.4 degrees Celsius.

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Monday sent a cable of condolences to President of Bangladesh Mohammad Abdul Hamid on deaths caused by a wave of severe cold sweeping the friendly country, where people lost their lives, were hurt or became ill.

Kuwaiti diplomacy spent two years in the halls of the United Nation Security Council actively tackling various issues and putting its weight behind Arab, Islamic and humanitarian causes.

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Thursday sent a cable of condolences to President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte over the victims of Typhoon Fanfon.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday the completion of the first step of the electronic visa project for a number of foreign countries.

Germany’s foreign minister says it remains important to stop any “spiral” of escalation in the Arabian Gulf amid heightened tensions with Iran. Heiko Maas made the comment Sunday night in Abu Dhabi during a news conference with his Emirati counterpart, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The recent threats by Iran has led to the escalation of the situation in the region because of Iranian threats to target the US bases in the Gulf because Tehran is known to have the capabilities to target Europe with its missiles, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting informed sources.