KUWAIT - State-run Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) appointed a new chief executive and suspended other top officials after the country paid $2.2 billion in damages to Dow Chemical Co over a scrapped plastics joint venture.Nizar Mohammad al-Asani replaced Farouk Zanki as CEO at the oil firm and the ...

KUWAIT CITY  Kuwait has deported hundreds of expats for traffic offences in the past month, a report said on Sunday, drawing condemnation from a human rights group.The Al-Anbaa newspaper cited a senior interior ministry official as saying that as many as 1,258 foreigners have been deported for ...

kuwait city - Kuwait's national carrier is due to sign a multi-billion-dollar deal with Airbus to purchase 25 new aircraft valued at $3.0 billion with the first delivery expected in 2019, a well-informed newspaper reported on Sunday.The deal will be signed "very soon," the privately-owned Al-Watan ...

KUWAIT CITY Kuwait has deported 213 foreigners over the past few days for committing “grave” traffic offences as part of a drive to reduce accidents, a senior interior ministry official said in comments published on Tuesday.“We have deported 213 expatriates during the past few ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - A Kuwaiti court sentenced opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison on Monday after he was convicted of insulting the country’s emir. Barrak, a nationalist, was charged with making statements offensive to the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf ...

ISLAMABADThe government of Kuwait has relaxed policy on issuance of visas to Pakistanis and their work related conditions, official sources said on Friday.  The Government of Kuwait had imposed a visa ban of all types for Pakistan nationals. The situation had created a critical problem for ...

KUWAIT CITY  - Kuwait MPs Tuesday overwhelmingly ratified a settlement deal between the Kuwaiti and Iraqi national carriers under which Baghdad will pay $500m in compensation, ending a 22-year-old dispute. Under the deal reached in July, Iraqi Airways agreed to pay the said compensation to ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwait on Thursday closed private television station Al-Youm, which backs the opposition, for allegedly failing to meet administrative conditions, the government said. “The information ministry has scrapped the licence of a satellite station for violating the terms of the ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwait’s emir criticised the opposition for stirring “chaos” on Sunday as activists demonstrated outside the parliament during a speech in which he opened the newly elected assembly.All of us “condemn these practices and the actions that breached the law, ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah on Monday accepted the resignation of the cabinet which quit as part of a routine process after election, the official KUNA news agency reported.The ruler also asked outgoing Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak al-Sabah and other ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - The opposition vowed Sunday to press on with protests until a newly elected parliament is abolished and a disputed law scrapped, a day after Kuwait's Shia minority emerged as main victors of a largely-boycotted vote."We will continue with our national and peaceful protests under ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwaitis cast ballots on Saturday to elect a second parliament in 10 months, but early turnout was low as voters appeared to heed an opposition call to shun the poll over a disputed electoral law.The vote comes nearly two months after Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwait on Monday issued a permit to allow the opposition to stage a demonstration on the eve of a disputed general election, the interior ministry and activists said.“We found the request submitted by the organisers fulfilled conditions set by the interior ministry and ...

KUWAIT CITY  - Kuwait has released Sheikh Abdullah Salem al-Sabah, one of two members of the ruling family arrested for tweets deemed critical of the government, he said on Twitter Saturday. “I asked them (police) to refer me to the public prosecution to defend myself from the horrifying ...

KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait has arrested two members of the Al-Sabah ruling family for tweets deemed critical of the government and supportive of the opposition, a human rights group and a lawyer said on Friday. Sheikh Abdullah Salem Al-Sabah and Sheikh Nawaf Malek Al-Sabah were arrested for expressing ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - The Kuwaiti opposition said it will go ahead Sunday with a demonstration in defiance of a government ban but urged supporters not to resort to violence, as authorities braced to prevent the march.“We will remain peaceful whatever the cost,” organisers of the protest ...

KUWAIT CITY  - Kuwait may call in the army to help security forces stop a march called by the opposition for Sunday after the govt vowed to use force if necessary, the emirate’s Al-Anbaa newspaper reported. The move came after security forces used tear gas to disperse a demonstration by ...

KUWAIT CITY  - The Kuwaiti opposition said Monday it will push ahead with protests until the government meets its demands for reform, a day after 100 demonstrators were hurt in confrontations with police. “Despite the government’s oppressive measures, we affirm that we will ...

KUWAIT CITY - The Kuwaiti cabinet on Saturday amended a controversial electoral law and set a December 1 date for snap polls, sparking angry opposition calls for demonstrations.“The cabinet approved the amendment of article 2 of the electoral law to change the voting system ... and approved a ...

KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait plunged into political turmoil on Friday after the public prosecution ordered the detention of three former opposition MPs for three days with more arrests expected. The three - Falah al-Sawwagh, Bader al-Dahum and Khaled al-Tahus - were questioned for nine hours on accusations ...

KUWAIT CITY  - Kuwait Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Sunday issued a decree dissolving the 2009 parliament, just over three months since it was reinstated by the constitutional court, state media said.“An emiri decree was issued to dissolve the 2009 parliament,” said ...

KUWAIT CITY  - The Kuwaiti cabinet approved a draft decree calling for the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf state to dissolve the 2009 parliament, the information minister said. Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Sabah said the decision was taken at an extraordinary meeting of the cabinet, the official ...

KUWAIT CITY  - Kuwait’s constitutional court on Wednesday declared February’s legislative polls in which the opposition swept to victory illegal and reinstated the previous pro-government parliament. Leading opposition MP Mussallam al-Barrak described the verdict as “a coup ...

KUWAIT CITY  - Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issued a decree on Monday to suspend parliament for one month in an apparent bid to defuse tensions between the government and MPs.The decision was based on an article in the constitution that allows the ruler to suspend parliamentary ...

DUBAI/SINGAPORE  - Rising domestic demand and refinery problems have prompted Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) to delay the loading of some gasoil cargoes, four industry sources said Wednesday. The delays triggered KPC to reschedule some cargoes with one of its biggest customers (PSO), ...

KUWAIT CITY  - Kuwait’s Capital Markets Authority signed an agreement Sunday with HSBC bank for the privatisation of the Kuwait Stock Exchange and setting up a new company to run the bourse.Under a law passed two years ago, 50 percent of the Kuwait Stock Exchange Company would be put up ...

KUWAIT CITY - Human Rights Watch on Sunday accused Kuwaiti police of torturing and sexually abusing transgender women and called on the Gulf state to hold officers accountable. In a report, the New York-based group said that police have been using a “discriminatory” amendment to the ...

KUWAIT CITY  - Kuwait will start granting citizenship to some stateless people by early February, the interior minister said in remarks published on Sunday. “The first batch of citizenships (to stateless) will be announced by the end of January or the beginning of February at the ...

Kuwait has banned nationals from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan from entering the country, according to immigration sources quoted by Kuwaiti media. The ban includes suspending all tourism, visit and trade visas as well as visas sponsored by spouses. They attributed the ban to the ...

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) Kuwaits Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah formed a new cabinet Sunday, dropping his oil minister and replacing him with Mohammad al-Baseeri who previously held the communications portfolio. Apart from changes to the key oil and commerce ministries, the new ...