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(Bloomberg) -- Bahrain has approved Chinese-made Sinopharm Group Co.'s vaccine for widespread usage on Sunday while neighboring Kuwait authorized the use of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE's vaccine. In Latin America, Peru temporarily suspended trials of the Sinopharm vaccine after an unspecified "adverse event" was reported during a clinical trial. [Extracted from the article]

King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has been admitted to a hospital in Riyadh early Monday for medical tests, the second elderly ruler of an oil-rich Gulf Arab nation to be hospitalized in less than a week. The hospitalizations of these elderly rulers add to the uncertainty that's beset these leading oil producers as they try to battle the twin crises of crude market turmoil and the coronavirus pandemic. [Extracted from the article]

King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has been admitted to a hospital in Riyadh early Monday for medical tests, the second elderly ruler of an oil-rich Gulf Arab nation to be hospitalized in less than a week. Salman's hospitalization forced the postponement of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi's visit on Monday. [Extracted from the article]

King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has been checked into a hospital in Riyadh early Monday for medical tests, the second elderly ruler of an oil-rich Gulf Arab nation to be hospitalized in less than a week. Kuwait's 91-year-old emir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, was admitted to hospital on Saturday for checkups and underwent a "successful surgery" the next morning, state-run Kuwait News Agency reported. [Extracted from the article]