DUBAI: On Friday, five Egyptians were arrested briefly for attempting to distribute leaflets calling on expat Egyptians to vote for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) candidate Mohamed Morsy in the presidential election. The result has been the Kuwaiti government putting the clamps down on any campaigning in the country by Egyptians living [...]
Kuwait decided to step up its crackdown on freedom of speech and now has its eye on the Internet. The Gulf kingdom said it is adding new laws to criminalize insulting God and religion, including comments written on the Internet, including social networking sites. Media Minister Mohamed al-Mubarak al-Sabah said Thursday that the kingdom will [...]
CAIRO: Regional human rights organizations expressed concern over Kuwait’s recently passed law that mandates the death penalty to anyone who criticizes God or Islam’s prophet Mohammed or his wives. The Kuwaiti National Assembly passed the law last Thursday, April 12, confirming the capital punishment to those insulting or criticizing God, the prophet or any of [...]
CAIRO: An American aircraft heading for Kuwait’s international airport abruptly halted landing after its pilot said a laser beam in the area blocked his vision of the runway, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. The plane was about to land on Sunday night when it changed course and flew up again after the pilot radioed the [...]
DUBAI: Seven Emirati men have been arrested following an assault on members of the Kuwaiti Jet Ski team taking part in the fourth round of the UAE Jet Ski Championship at Umm Suqeim Beach. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, instructed police [...]
DUBAI: Kuwaiti organizers have apologized after a shooting medal ceremony in the country played the Borat version of the Kazakh national anthem instead of the actual one. The anti-Jewish spoof song has led to widespread criticism of the organizers of the event in Kuwait, who also played the wrong Serbian national anthem. The spoof song, [...]
DUBAI: A strike at Kuwait Airways (KAC) has seen the company and its subsidiaries lose an estimated one million dollars within a four hour period on Saturday, as 10 flights were canceled. The company said they held the government of Kuwait responsible for the shutdown. “This strike will completely paralyze all flights and operations of [...]
DUBAI: Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways announced on Saturday it had won approval to become the first Kuwaiti carrier to operate flights to Iraq. The airline said it has secured rights to operate a Kuwait-Al Najaf route and intends to launch “within the next six months”. The announcement follows “successful bilateral discussions between the governments of Kuwait [...]
Christians across the Middle East are expressing anger and frustration after the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia said it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.” In Cairo and Beirut, the anger was loudest, but also through their calls were gestures of tolerance. “I mean from a regular, end of the street [...]
DUBAI: Kuwait could soon see meat prices rise as higher rent fees charged on agricultural properties was recently passed by legislators in the country. Government officials have attempted to allay fears that the new law will not have an impact on meat and agricultural prices, but farmers in the country told Bikyamasr.com that “this is [...]
In his book “Trial by Ink”, Egyptian writer Yahia Lababidi offers us an intimate look into the world of self-censorship and sexual morality in the Arab world from the perspective of a man himself and he begins his reflection by speaking with brutal sincerity about the new morality of Egypt: “Much of the new morality [...]
DUBAI: Kuwait’s Sheikha Sherifa al-Jassem launched on Sunday a new breast cancer detention center aimed at assisting women in the Gulf country protect themselves from the often fatal disease. The Hayat Early Detection Breast Cancer Center aims at developing Kuwait’s ability to prevent and track patients on breast cancer, Sheikha Sherifa, the wife of Crown [...]
KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait’s parliament adopted on Thursday a non-binding resolution calling on the government to arm the Syrian opposition and to sever diplomatic ties with Damascus. The vote came following an emergency session to debate developments in Syria, where thousands of people have been killed in a bloody ongoing crackdown by the regime of [...]
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates national airlines Emirates Air announced on Monday plans to boost its daily capacity to Kuwait and Qatar’s capital Doha. According to a company press statement, there will be an increase by nearly 30 percent across both routes. The additional daily frequency to Doha will be operated by an Airbus A340-300 [...]
DUBAI: Women married to Gulf nationals will be exempted from an entry ban in place in Kuwait on 6 nationalities, the country’s immigration department said on Monday. The move comes after Kuwait barred all tourism and business visas for citizens of Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan last year. It had resulted in wives [...]
DUBAI: As Kuwait’s newly elected parliament takes its positions, one thing is missing: women. Despite having four seats in the previous legislative body, the most recent round of voting saw no women elected to parliament, leaving many to question the future role of women in the country’s political landscape. At a Women’s Cultural Society symposium [...]
Cairo (dpa) – Kuwaiti emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah on Tuesday swore in a new government, which has eight new ministers, Al Arabiya broadcaster reported. The new cabinet, which was formed after the Islamist-led opposition won 34 seat in the 50-member parliament in an election earlier this month, has 16 ministers, including five [...]
Reporters Without Borders wishes to express its concern over moves taken against a number of media organizations during the campaign for the parliamentary elections held on 2 February. While the country heads the list of Arab states in the 2011 world press freedom index , the heightened political tension surrounding the elections had an impact [...]
Cairo (dpa) – The Kuwaiti government resigned on Sunday, four days after the Islamist-led opposition made major gains in the Gulf country’s early parliamentary elections. Kuwait’s ruler, Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, accepted the resignation and requested the cabinet members to keep their posts until a new government is formed, state media reported. A new [...]
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s government should follow through on promises to address citizenship claims of stateless residents, known as Bidun, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing its World Report 2012 at a news conference in Kuwait City. The government should also amend its national laws to protect domestic workers following its approval, in June 2011, of [...]
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