Date: 30/08/2020
Time: 3:04 AM
06 4 GEN 0208 KUWAIT /KUNA-MWQ0
MDA-KUWAIT-KUNA-SUMMARY
Briefing of KUNA main news for Saturday until 00:00 GMT
2918171 KUWAIT -- Kuwaiti inventor Jenan Al-Shehab grabs two awards and a gold
medal at the Fifth International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada,
iCAN 2020, according to the winners list issued.
2918184 ANKARA -- Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu cautions Greece
against expanding its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea off Italy from six
to 12 nautical miles.
2918177 KUWAIT -- Two Russian aircraft "intercepted" a US Air Force B-52
bomber Friday that was conducting "routine operations in the black sea over
international waters," US Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa Public
Affairs say.
2918159 GENEVA -- A fresh round of talks involving a committee tasked with
drafting a new constitution for Syria has exposed the ongoing friction between
the war-torn nation's warring parties, the UN's special envoy says.
2918156 KUWAIT -- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces that it
has "broadened the scope" of the existing emergency use authorization (EUA)
for the drug Veklury (remdesivir) to include treatment of all hospitalized
adult and pediatric patients "as part of its ongoing efforts to fight COVID-19.
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