Overview
- At the 6th Joint Supreme Committee meeting, the two countries signed five accords covering consumer protection, a 2026–2028 tourism program, standards cooperation, anti-corruption, and public-sector audit during the "UAE–Kuwait: Brothers Forever" week.
- Economic ministers highlighted closer tourism collaboration, citing 400,000 Kuwaiti visitors to the UAE in 2025—about a 6% rise from 2024—and 174 weekly direct flights that support further growth.
- Senior diplomat Anwar Gargash underscored a GCC posture of de-escalation and a collective refusal to allow member territories to be used for military operations.
- A Dubai civil court ordered defendants in an international email-fraud and money-laundering case to repay AED 3.903 million to two maritime firms and kept precautionary asset freezes in place.
- Market watchers put the probability of a partial U.S. federal shutdown at roughly 75–80% as a DHS funding standoff continued near the Jan. 30 deadline.