KUWAIT CITY:

His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has

successfully undergone medical examinations in the United States, read a statement by the Amiri Diwan on Sunday.

The statement added that His Highness the Crown Prince would remain in the US for personal reasons, before heading to spend some vacation time in Europe. (KUNA)

ANKARA:

Kuwaitis will no longer need an entry visa to visit Turkey as of Sunday, it was announced in Ankara.

A resolution by the Turkish cabinet came into effect Sunday, after being published in the official gazette, providing for the exemption of Kuwaiti citizens from visas to enter Turkey, the Anadolu news agency said. (KUNA)

BEIRUT:

Nearly 90,000 Iranians are expected to attend the Hajj in Madinah this year, and were due to start arriving on Sunday, after Tehran boycotted the pilgrimage last year amid tensions with Saudi Arabia.

Around 800 pilgrims were due to leave Iran on three flights to Medina on Sunday, the director of the Hajj at Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, Nasrollah Farahmand told state media. (RTRS)

TEHRAN,

Iran:

Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting that an appeals court has approved the jail sentences for 10 people charged with attacking Saudi diplomatic missions.

The Sunday report says that a lawyer associated with the case said the prison sentences for the 10 attackers, ranging from three to six months each, was approved by the appeals court. (AP)

WASHINGTON:

American forces successfully tried out Sunday a missile interception system the US hopes to set up on the Korean peninsula, military officials said following a trial just days after North Korea’s second test of an ICBM.

In the American test of the socalled THAAD system, a mediumrange missile was launched from a US Air Force C-17 aircraft flying over the Pacific and a THAAD unit in Alaska “detected, tracked and intercepted the target,” the US Missile Defense Agency said. (AFP)