Archive for December 23rd, 2011

Two more women have signed up to run in the parliamentary elections in Kuwait in February, taking the number, two days into the registration process, to eight. The two women were among the 47 candidates who presented their papers to the interior ministry directorate overseeing the elections scheduled for February 2.
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Pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera is to re-open its bureau in Kuwait, one year after it was ordered shut down. “The information ministry has agreed to reissue the licence,” said Saad Al Saeedi, the Kuwait bureau chief of the Doha-based channel. “The reopening of the bureau will be within 10 days. We are now...
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