Kuwait’s ambassador to Iraq said that he would move to Baghdad in early February. “The embassy building has now been completed and the offices are ready,” Ali Al Moemen said. “I will leave with the team of four diplomats to Baghdad early next month to resume our work officially in the new premises,” he...
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The Arab League summit, scheduled for Baghdad in March, looked increasingly in doubt for the second consecutive year amid reports that an Arab League delegation visit was put off and that some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are calling for its postponement. According to a report in a Kuwaiti daily, three GCC countries are...
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Around 25,000 students are sitting for the end of semester exams in Bahrain’s government-run high schools, the education ministry said. The number could have been higher if stringent disciplinary action against students with a record of unexcused absent days, it said.
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US President Barack Obama has nominated John Christopher Stevens as US ambassador to Libya. Stevens served as Special Representative to the Libyan Transitional National Council from March 2011 to November 2011. From 2007 to 2009, he served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Tripoli, Libya.
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Kuwait has mobilised 548 legal consultants, judges and prosecutors for the parliamentary elections next month. The legal staff will be tasked with supervising the polling process in which more than 400,000 voters are expected to cast their ballots to choose 50 members of parliament.
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