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Kuwait: Scandal brews as medicine shortages leave patients without treatment

Widespread anger has erupted in Kuwait over a lack of medicine, with many warning that the country risks a national crisis over the problem. Both doctors and ordinary citizens have been using social media platforms to express their concerns over the medicine shortage, detailing how difficult it has been to obtain certain medications. Many are placing the blame on the minister of health, and are demanding the issue be addressed. Using the […]

4 September 2023

International

Kuwait renews calls for Iran to demarcate maritime borders

Kuwait renewed its call for Iran, on Monday, to demarcate maritime borders between the two countries, Anadolu Agency reports. The state news agency, KUNA, citing a Foreign Ministry source, said the offshore Durra gas field is located in Kuwait's sea territories. "Natural resources in this area are shared between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia," the source said. He added that only Kuwait and Saudi Arabia "have the exclusive rights to the natural resource of […]

4 July 2023

International

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait demand European action on Quran burning

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Saturday called for European action against the repeated burning of the Quran, Islam's holy book, reports Anadolu Agency. On Friday, Swedish-Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) Party, burned a copy of the Quran in front of a mosque in Denmark. The Islamophobic act came days after the far-right leader burned the Islamic book outside the Turkish Embassy in the […]

30 January 2023

International

US approves potential $3bn in defence sale to Kuwait- Pentagon

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of the National Advanced Surface-To-Air Missile System (NASAMS) and Medium Range Air Defence System to Kuwait in a deal valued at an estimated $3 billion, the Pentagon said yesterday, Reuters reports. "The proposed sale will improve Kuwait's capability to meet current and future threats by enhancing the ability to defend itself against regional malign actors and improve interoperability with systems operated by U.S. […]

8 October 2022

International News

Kuwait swears in new emir after Sheikh Sabah’s death

Kuwait has sworn in its new emir, Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, to receive the body of his half-brother, the late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah who died in the United States at the age of 91. The body of Sheikh Sabah, an acclaimed diplomat and mediator who ruled for 14 years, is expected to arrive in Kuwait City later on Wednesday. He died on Tuesday in Minnesota where he […]

30 September 2020

International News

Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait offer $2.5bn in aid for Jordan

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait offered $2.5bn in aid for Jordan to ease its economic crisis following a wave of anti-austerity protests, the Saudi state media announced early Monday. "In light of the close brotherly ties... it was agreed that the three countries would provide an economic aid package to Jordan totalling $2.5 billion," the official Saudi Press Agency said. The package, announced at a summit of […]

11 June 2018

International News

Muslim countries prepare for OIC summit on Palestine

Kuwait has announced that Emir Sheikh Sabah al Ahmed al Jaber Al Sabah would head the Kuwaiti delegation to the extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul on Friday, Kuwait’s official KUNA news agency reported. The summit of Muslim countries will focus on the latest incidents in Gaza, where over 60 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while they were protesting for the right to return […]

18 May 2018

International News

Kuwait tweep jailed for ‘defaming Saudi Arabia’

A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced a Twitter user to seven years in prison with hard labour on charges that include “defaming Saudi Arabia” and “disseminating false news”, local newspaper Al-Qabas reported. The paper did not name the defendant; however the ruling pointed to a number of tweets referring to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s recent purge against princes and officials in the Kingdom. Earlier this month, Kuwaiti Emir […]

28 November 2017

International News

Saudi, UAE, Kuwait urge citizens to leave Lebanon

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have advised their citizens not to travel to Lebanon and urged those who are in the country to leave as soon as possible. Saudi Arabia's official news agency SPA quoted a source in the foreign ministry on Thursday as saying: "Due to the situations in the Republic of Lebanon, the official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Saudi […]

10 November 2017

Kuwait

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