News From Kuwait
Palestinian Salfeet municipality named on Monday a main road in the city after Kuwait National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim.The naming for the road after Speaker Al-Ghanim comes to honor him for support of the Palestinian causes, President of Sal…
Salfeet municipality names main road after Kuwait Parliament Speaker Read MoreANKARA, Cypriot eligible voters started early on Sunday heading to the polls in the second and last round of elections for choosing the island country’s eighth president.The official Cyprus News Agency (CNA), monitored here, said 550,876 Cypriots are e…
Cypriots vote for new president Read MoreCAIRO, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi’s planned visit to Muscat at the invitation of Sultan Qaboos bin Said is of special significance as it will the first of its kind sine Al-Sisi took over in June 2014.The Egyptian president is expected to m…
Report: Egyptian leader’s visit to Muscat of special significance Read MoreKUWAIT, Arab and International Relations Council President Mohammad Al-Saqer said US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and transfer of US embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied city, topped council’s meeting agenda on…
Arab, Int’l Relations Council discuss Jerusalem Read MoreKUWAIT, Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah met on Sunday with a number of Arab and foreign ambassadors to Kuwait.A statement by the foreign ministry said Al-Jarallah briefed the diplomats on the ministerial meetings for the internationa…
Kuwaiti deputy FM meets Arab, foreign ambassadors in Kuwait Read MoreMUSCAT, Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said and visiting Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi Sunday discussed fruitful cooperation between both countries in various fields that serve mutual interests.Both leaders also considered good relations between Mus…
Oman, Egypt leaders discuss coop. Read MoreKUWAIT, Kuwait Finance Minister, Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf, said, parliament’s failure to approve bond issuance bill, would mean the State general reserve would be consumed to address budget deficits.The State general reserve is exposed to risk, because it i…
KUWAIT FINANCE MINISTER URGES PARLIAMENT TO ENDORSE BOND ISSUANCE BILL Read MoreANKARA, Cypriot voters re-elected President Nicos Anastasiades for another five-year term after winning in the final round with 55.99 percent of the votes, against independent candidate Satavros Malas who gained 44.01 percent of the votes.The official …
Cyprus re-elect Pres. Anastasiades for new term Read MoreKUWAIT, Kuwait’s First Deputy Premier and Defence Minister, Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, instructed Saturday, investigation of the deaths of non-commissioned officers, at the Ali Sabah Al-Salem Military College, and Ahmad Al-Jaber Air Force C…
KUWAIT DEFENCE MINISTER ORDERS PROBE INTO NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS’ DEATH Read MoreANKARA, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed Turkey’s ongoing Operation Olive Branch in Syria’s northwestern region of Afrin by phone on Saturday.They also exchanged views on bilateral relations an…
Turkish, French leaders discuss Afrin operation Read MoreKUWAIT, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received Sunday outgoing Ambassador of Somalia to Kuwait Abdulqadir Amin Abu Baker.The minister during the meeting lauded the diplomat’s efforts during …
Kuwaiti FM receives Somalia’s outgoing amb. Read MoreKUWAIT, Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah Sunday met with visiting Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Mohammad Al Jaber.They discussed relations between both sisterly countries, the current regional and international developments and the latest…
Kuwaiti Deputy FM meets Saudi Amb. in Yemen Read MoreWith his face, hands and clothes covered in dirt, 11-year-old Hassan Abdullah treks through the rubble of Mosul’s Old City dawn to dusk, foraging for whatever pieces of scrap metal he can find.The boy carries a white sack full of electrical wires and o…
After Islamic State, Mosul’s Impoverished Residents Trade Scrap Metal to Make a Living Read MoreUS Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan said Thursday he spoke with Iraqi officials regarding the investment opportunities that would be presented at Kuwait international conference on reconstruction of Iraq.The upcoming conference “would provide…
US, Iraqi officials discuss Iraq reconstruction conf. Read MoreA US House Republican committee memorandum alleging surveillance abuses by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was released on Friday in an escalating political clash between White House and Republican supporters of President Donald Trump on one …
Republicans release memo targeting FBI in probes of Russia meddling Read MoreA Republican House committee memorandum released Friday “raises serious concerns about integrity of decisions made at highest levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI to use government’s most intrusive surveillance tools against American citizen…
Memo “raises serious concerns” on integrity of Justice Dept. – White House Read More