Kuwait's interior ministry Monday warned stateless residents against demonstrating to mark the international day of non-violence on October 2, warning it will deal firmly with protesters.
Online activists have been urging stateless residents of the oil-rich Gulf state, known locally as bidoons, to demonstrate peacefully to renew their demands for Kuwaiti citizenship and basic rights like education and healthcare.
Full StorySome seven million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid due to the conflict in Syria, a U.N. top official said Tuesday, saying $4.4 billion (3.3 billion euros) is needed this year.
Of those in urgent need, more than two million have taken shelter outside Syria, while more than four million people have been displaced within the country, said U.N. Emergency Relief coordinator Valerie Amos.
Full StoryKuwaiti Ambassador to Lebanon Abdul Al al-Qinai announced on Tuesday that a Kuwaiti Airways plane is scheduled to arrive in Beirut later at night to evacuate Kuwaiti nationals from the country due to the rising tensions in the region over the Syrian conflict, reported the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
The ambassador explained that the evacuation was part of “Kuwaiti efforts to guarantee the safety of its people in Lebanon.”
Full StoryCaretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel ruled out that Lebanon would suffer from the repercussions of a possible U.S. military strike on the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“There are no fears on Lebanon from the consequences of a military strike that the international community could carry out on Syria,” Charbel told the Kuwaiti al-Seyassah newspaper published on Sunday.
Full StoryKuwait called Thursday for international "deterrent" action against Syria following an alleged chemical attack near Damascus last week.
A government statement urged the international community "to assume its moral responsibility towards the crimes committed in Syria and take practical deterrent measures to prevent" new attacks.
Full StoryKuwait on Friday urged its citizens to “immediately” leave Lebanon, lamenting the recurrence of blasts in the country.
"We call on all Kuwaitis present in Lebanon to immediately leave the country,” an official source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a released statement.
Full StoryKuwait is to deport nine Egyptian Islamists for participating in protests outside their embassy in the Gulf emirate which bans foreigners from demonstrating, a newspaper said on Monday.
The men were among a group of some 70 protesters who staged two demonstrations outside the Egyptian embassy and consulate last week, to protest a deadly crackdown in Cairo of supporters of Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, al-Rai newspaper reported.
Full StoryKuwait has released seven opposition activists, including a woman, who were in prison for insulting the ruler on Twitter after he pardoned them last week, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
Dozens of other opposition activists and former lawmakers being tried on similar charges were not included in the pardon issued by Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on the occasion of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Full StoryKuwait's emir Tuesday urged MPs and the government to cooperate to achieve political stability in the oil-rich Gulf state that has been rocked by a series of disputes for years.
"Cooperation between parliament and government to achieve stability," is necessary, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah said as he opened the new parliament elected last month.
Full StoryKuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, named a cabinet on Sunday that, includes new oil, finance and defense ministers and seven members of the ruling Al-Sabah family.
The appointment of the new 16-member line-up came after the Gulf state's second parliamentary polls in eight months were again boycotted by the opposition.
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