Bahrain’s foreign minister, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, has denied media reports that his meeting last month with Jews in the US was a secret, insisting that the American society was now ready to listen to Arab views.. “The meeting was never a secret. I have mentioned it on my Twitter which allows...
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Mohammad Husain Bahr Al Uloom – Al Watan Kuwait has welcomed the nomination of an Iraqi ambassador as “a good move” that indicates a clear recognition of its sovereignty. Iraq on Tuesday said that it appointed Mohammad Husain Mohammad Bahr Al Uloom as its ambassador to Kuwait, a post that has been vacant since...
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Kuwait’s foreign minister has come under an unusual amount of criticism from a lawmaker angered by the official’s siding with Libya in its visa standoff with Switzerland. Tripoli and Bern are embroiled in a bitter row sparked by the Swiss police interrogation of Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s leader Moammar Gaddafi, over allegations...
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Iraq has appointed Mohammad Husain Mohammad Bahr Al Uloom as its ambassador to Kuwait, an Iraqi foreign official has said. The post has been vacant since 1990 when Iraqi troops invaded the northern Arabian Gulf emirate and set off the 1991 Gulf War. The Iraqi nominee is the son of Shiite scholar and politician...
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Orlando Turner, the American who confessed that he was behind the spate of hoax calls in Kuwait, had used suicide warnings and a ruse before resorting to bomb threats to get the custody of his baby daughter, his lawyer said. The hoax caller last week revealed himself on a YouTube video under the name...
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Angry lawmakers from two major parliamentary blocs have criticized both the country’s largest bloc and the British ambassador to Bahrain for holding a meeting allegedly on the political situation in Bahrain. MPs from Al Asala accused Al Wefaq, which has 17 of the 40 seats in the lower chamber, of plotting a constitutional coup...
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Kuwait’s government is reported to announce an end to the recruitment of foreigners in the public sector, a local paper said. The move is attributed to a keenness to control expenditures and to offer greater employment opportunities to Kuwaitis wishing to join the government sector, Al Jareeda daily said on Monday. Kuwait, like the...
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The former UK ambassador to Kuwait had been recalled to London following news that he had an affair with a married junior colleague and that she was pregnant, a British newspaper has reported. Michael Aron, 50, a married father of four, had been in the Kuwait job for only a year when he abruptly...
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