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KUNA main news for Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)

Local:

KUWAIT - Kuwaiti team of surgeons, assisted by German counterparts, perform a transplant of an artificial heart pump with a minimal invasive technique for the first time in the Middle East. (Issued at 11:31 local time, 08:31 GMT)

KUWAIT - Kuwait's Rashid Al-Dawwas wins the gold medal in the beginners stock event at the International Jet Ski World Finals (IJSBA) in Lake Havasu, Arizona. (Issued at 11:28 local time, 08:28 GMT)

Economic:

KUWAIT -- Kuwait Energy announces official approval of its Farm-Out Agreement to sell 25 percent of its shares in the Abu Sennan concession in Egypt to GlobalConnect Ltd. (Issued at 16:19 local time, 13:19 GMT)

KUWAIT -- Kuwaiti-based Warba Bank announces a five-year joint venture with the Saudi Arabian Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) worth USD 1.25 billion. (Issued at 15:39 local time, 12:39 GMT)

KUWAIT -- Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) cancels a contract to purchase a gas field in Thailand from Royal Dutch Shell. (Issued at 15:03 local time, 12:03 GMT)

MOSCOW -- Saudi Arabia is keen on investing around USD 1 billion in Russia's energy sector, according to Russian energy minister Alexander Novak. (Issued at 14:53 local time, 11:23 GMT)

TOKYO -- Tokyo stocks extended their winning streak for a third straight session, with a key index ending at a two-year high buoyed by overnight gains on Wall Street. (Issued at 13:16 local time, 10:16 GMT)

International:

MOSCOW -- Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud's upcoming visit to Russia will aim to develop long-standing ties and look into new ventures to develop this relationship, particularly on the economic domain. (Analysis by Adeeb Al-Sayed issued at 10:07 local time, 07:07 GMT)

MOSCOW -- The Russian military says it has killed 12 field commanders of Al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate, Jabhat Al-Nusra, in Syria. (Issued at 12:18 local time 09:18 GMT)

BRUSSELS -- Dutch Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis resigns on the backdrop of a report blaming failures in the military's safety and medical procedures for the death of two Dutch soldiers in Mali. (Issued at 15:43 local time, 12:43 GMT)

BRUSSELS -- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm awards the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to two Europeans and an American for their work in developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution. (Issued at 15:11 local time, 12:11 GMT)

BAGHDAD -- Iraq declares three days of national mourning over the death of former president Jalal Talabani, who passed away a day earlier aged 84. (Issued at 14:35 local time, 11:35 GMT)

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