Kuwait- KUNA main news for Wednesday, Sept 6, 2017


(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Local:

KUWAIT -- Kuwaiti MPs blast the international community for failing to take action against massacres of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

KUWAIT -- Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) plans to hold a fundraising campaign at its headquarters on Monday to raise donations for the Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh. (Issued at 16:12 local time or 13:12 GMT).

Economic:

KUWAIT -- Boursa Kuwait, the national stocks exchange, ended Wednesday's session on mixed boards. (Issued at 13:04 local time or 10:04 GMT).

KUWAIT -- The price of Kuwaiti oil went up by 55 cents to USD 49.73 per barrel Tuesday after being at USD 49.18 pb the day before, said the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) Wednesday. (Issued)

International:

PARIS -- French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has reaffirmed his country's commitment to the two state-solution involving an independent Palestinian state. (Issued at 16:03 local time or 13:03 GMT).

ANKARA -- Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said on Wednesday that his country would send urgent humanitarian aid to Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar by military helicopters due to security concerns. (Issued at 15:02 local time or 12:02 GMT).

TOKYO -- Japan on Wednesday revised its estimate of North Korea's sixth nuclear test, saying that the recorded 160 kilotons explosion was ten times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb. (Issued at 11:50 local time or 08:50 GMT).

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