Co-sponsored by Kuwait, the Netherlands, Sweden and Cote d'Ivoire, a resolution was unanimously passed by the UN Security Council on Thursday to strongly condemn the starving of civilians and the unlawfully denying of humanitarian access to civilian populations as warfare tactics.

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday what he called "Securing our common future: an agenda for disarmament." The agenda spells out three priorities, namely to save humanity, save lives, and to remove weapons for the future generations.

US President Donald Trump's decision to cancel his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came after a "trail of broken promises that gave the United States pause," said a Senior White House official to reporters.

Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Abdulatif Al-Zayani on Thursday congratulated GCC leaders and citizens on the 37 anniversary of the council's establishment.

US President Donald Trump announced he has cancelled his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday, citing "open hostility" on the part of Pyongyang.

Kuwait's Health Minister Dr. Basel Al-Sabah said Thursday his country succeeded in mobilizing Arab and Muslim support for issuing a special resolution to resolve health issues in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday that he would seek approval from a planning committee for the building of 2,500 new settlement houses in the West Bank.

The United States late Wednesday ordered two Venezuelan diplomats to leave the country in 48 hours, following the expulsion of American officials from Venezuela.

The Filipino domestic workers who were until now barred from leaving for Kuwait, can fly next week pending visa application approval, while the skilled workers can fly anytime, said rappler.com Wednesday quoting the Filipino Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III.

Palestinians condemned on Wednesday the photo of US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, seen receiving from a radical Jewish party a picture of an aerial image of Jerusalem bearing a simulation of the Third Temple instead of the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock.