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• Middle East: In the Middle East, BA will discontinue flights to Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City, while Dubai will receive increased frequencies and upgraded aircraft. Aviation a2z
• The Sixth Arab Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Kuwait City has concluded with a declaration which reaffirms the urgent need to strengthen resilience across the Arab region in the face of increasing disaster risks. World Meteorological Organization
• Prime Minister Modi highlighted India's startups, which can offer immense opportunities for collaboration with nations like Kuwait, particularly in sectors like fintech, healthcare, smart cities, and green technology. ANI News
• An Iran-aligned group that presaged two previous drone attacks on Gulf cities has issued a new threat against U.S. targets in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The Washington Institute
• The flagship Neom project describes a 26,500 km square expanse of land - larger than the countries of Kuwait and Israel - that will house, among other things, a 170 km long megacity, and a floating city called Oxagon, the proposed site of the green hydrogen project. reneweconomy
• Kuwait's government announced on Thursday that it will be dispatching flights carrying medical and humanitarian supplies to the city of Port Sudan, on Sudan's Red Sea coast. The Irish Times
• Jazeera Airways expects to attract strong flows of leisure traffic from Moscow, enabling passengers to connect through Kuwait to places such as Dubai, Sharm El Sheikh and cities in Turkey. Routes
• Kuwait Airways will have 2,672 two-way weekly seats available between Kuwait City and Munich, while Jazeera Airways will provide 1,008. Routes
• PART has stated that an operational high-capacity urban transit network could help to alleviate the adverse health, environmental and financial impacts of traffic congestion in Kuwait City. Oxford Business Group
• 30,000 residential units will be built as Kuwait aims to host over 400,000 people in its first Smart City. egic
• The Investment Promotion report expects the completion of the Kuwait International Airport development project in 2022, and the construction of the Kuwait City metro and the national railway network to begin in 2024 and 2026. ARAB TIMES - KUWAIT NEWS
• The unprecedented collaboration between South Korean and Kuwaiti governments to build a new smart city in Kuwait was expected to bring an innovative solution to the ongoing 'housing crisis' in Kuwait. London School of Economics and Political Science
• The objectives set in the Vision 2035 programme are expected to affect several vertical sectors (including smart cities, utilities, healthcare, education, finance, industry) in Kuwait. Analysys Mason
• A Zeleros global study for 2050 and beyond envisions a hyperloop stretching more than 4,500 km connecting 15 cities in the Middle East from Muscat, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha in the east moving to Kuwait in the north, across to Riyadh and onto Mecca and Jeddah in the west. Impact Lab
• Terminal 2 at Kuwait International Airport which will have the capacity to accommodate 25 million passengers every year. Technical Review Middle East
• The Al-Nayeem Industrial City will be built far 70 kilometers west from Kuwait City. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
• Kuwait City will form one terminus of the Gulf Railway, a 2,000 km railway network which will run from Kuwait to Oman, via cities across the Persian Gulf. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
• Riyadh and Abu Dhabi - as well as Kuwait City, Manama, Doha, and even Muscat - are worried that, over time, the United States could significantly downsize its physical presence, end the sale of weapons, and ultimately define down its commitment. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• IoT revenues in MEA will reach $55 billion by 2025, while IoT will also grow MEA's GDP by $18 billion by 2025. Orange Business Services

Last updated: 26 June 2025