Iran’s main envoy meets with top Kuwait leaders

Iran’s main envoy meets with top Kuwait leaders

DUBAI: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met with Kuwait's top leaders during his visit to the Gulf state, state news agency KUNA reported. Zarif discussed on Thursday with Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah regional and international issues and bilateral relations, the report added. He also met his Kuwaiti counterpart Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah and talked about ways to enhance bilateral relations and how to create stability and peace in the region, KUNA added. MOUNT MERON, Israel: Dozens of people were killed in a stampede at a religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a "heavy disaster." Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B'Omer commemorations that include all-night prayer, mystical songs and dance. The ecstatic crowds packed the Mount Meron slope in defiance of COVID-19 warnings by health officials. Witnesses said people were asphyxiated or trampled in a passageway, some going unnoticed until the PA system sounded an appeal to disperse. "We thought maybe there was a (bomb) alert over a suspicious package. No one imagined that this could happen here. Rejoicing became