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KUWAIT CITY:

Minister of Education and Higher Education Bader Al-Essa said on Wednesday that there was one confirmed case of Swine Flu (H1N1) of a sixyear-old student in a private school.

The student’s parents were the ones who reported the case, as their child was currently receiving treatment, the minister said during a tour to several schools on Wednesday. (KUNA)

TEHRAN:

Iran will receive the bulk of the S-300 air defence missile systems it ordered from Russia by the

end of the year, Tehran’s defence minister has said.

“We signed a contract with Russia. It is being done. We will acquire a large portion of the systems by the end of this year,” Hossein Dehghan told state television late Tuesday.

He said Iranian troops were being trained in Russia to operate the surface-to-air missile systems.

This week, the state-run Russian Technologies Corporation (Rostec) announced the signing of a delivery contract in Tehran for S-300 missiles. (AFP)

PARIS: France and Iran will sign several agreements, including in the air transport, during a visit by President Hassan Rouhani to Paris next week, the French presidency said on Tuesday.

France has a long history of commercial, political and social links with Iran — in the 1970s revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei lived in exile near Paris. But France also took one of the hardest lines of the six powers negotiating an agreement on curtailing Iran’s nuclear programme. (RTRS)

AMMAN, Jordan: A government spokesman says a shooting rampage that killed three foreign police instructors, including two Americans, will not harm Jordan’s security ties with other nations.

Mohammed Momani also told The Associated Press on Wednesday that images circulated on social media show the aftermath of the shooting in a canteen in the police training center. The photos showed three large pools of blood on the ground and two tables, one with plates of food. (AP)

NEW YORK: As they carried out what federal prosecutors call a “sprawling criminal enterprise” stretching around the globe, with schemes nestled within schemes, the accused masterminds plotted and bragged to each other in emails.

Three men were charged with stealing the contact data of more than 100 million customers — including for JPMorgan Chase & Co — in what authorities described as the single largest theft of customer data from a US financial institution. They used the stolen information to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal profits, US prosecutors in Manhattan said. (AP)

BERLIN: US tech giant Microsoft has put new data centres in Germany under the control of Deutsche Telekom, the companies said Wednesday, in a move that will keep privacy-sensitive Germans’ customer data in the country.

After scandals over US surveillance programmes that spooked Europeans, Deutsche Telekom will serve as “custodian” for Microsoft’s cloud-based services in Germany. (AFP)