Briefing of KUNA main news for Thursday until 00:00 GMT

The Ministry of Interior: An Asian national was seized while attempting to steal nearly five tons of subsidized foodstuffs and smuggle them abroad.

CAIRO — A team of excavators unearth fossils of the geographically widespread extinct family Basilosauridae which existed nearly 41 years ago.

ADEN — A senior Yemeni security officer and some of his comrades are killed when their convoy hit a roadside bomb in Abyan Governorate, south of Yemen.

BEIRUT — Lebanese Defense Minister Maurice Sleem survives an assassination attempt as his car came under gunfire in Jisr Al-Basha neighborhood, east of Beirut.

WASHINGTON — The US imposes sanctions on former governor of the Lebanese central bank Riad Salameh and four of his aides due to alleged unlawful actions.

WASHINGTON — US President Joseph R. Biden declares a major disaster in the State of Hawaii

Source: Kuwait News Agency