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Kuwait's highest court ruled Wednesday that women lawmakers are not obliged by law to wear the headscarf, a blow to Muslim fundamentalists who want to fully impose Islamic Sharia law in this small oil-rich state.
Kuwait's highest court granted women the right to obtain a passport without their husband's approval, the case's lawyer said Wednesday, in the latest stride for women's rights in this small oil-rich emirate.
Iraq's recent efforts to avoid paying Kuwait some $25 billion in U.N.-mandated reparations for Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion have alarmed Kuwaitis and strained relations that have slowly improved since the fall of the Iraqi dictator.
A Kuwaiti businessman linked to Citigroup and charged in the United States with fraud committed suicide Sunday, a security official said.
Kuwaitis exasperated by years of battles between the country's lawmakers and Cabinet ministers voted Saturday in the second parliamentary election in a year, hoping for some political stability in the small, oil-rich nation.
Days before electing their second parliament in a year, Kuwaitis are trading blame about how their tiny, oil-rich country has reached a political stalemate that has virtually frozen development during tough economic times.
Kuwait is scrapping a $14 billion project to build a fourth refinery in the oil-rich country, the prime minister said in remarks published Sunday. The announcement was the second cancellation of a major oil project since December amid government corruption allegations.
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge paid tribute to Asia on Thursday as a rising force in global sports.
France is in discussions to sell combat jets, frigates and an anti-missile defense system to Kuwait, the French president said Wednesday, the latest effort to raise his country's profile in the Middle East.
Arab leaders trying to come up with a plan to rebuild Gaza ended their meeting Tuesday in discord, unable to agree on whether to back Egyptian peace efforts or even set up a joint reconstruction fund for the devastated Palestinian territory.
Gaza overshadowed an Arab economic summit aimed at promoting regional development, with Arab leaders pledging to help rebuild the impoverished Palestinian territory while decrying the lack of unity that had undercut economic growth in the region.
Kuwait's decision to scrap a $17.4 billion joint venture with U.S. giant Dow Chemical has triggered warnings that the oil-rich Gulf nation's fractious politics could undercut efforts to kick-start stalled economic development plans.
Trading on Kuwait's hard-hit stock exchange was halted by court order on Thursday, a move cheered by many traders but criticized by the government and other investors who urged their privileged countrymen to stop acting like a "spoiled baby."
Kuwait moved Sunday to prop up the country's second-largest commercial bank and scrambled to protect depositors at other domestic banks, dashing hopes the oil-rich Arab Gulf would emerge largely unscathed from the global financial crisis.
The U.S. ambassador to Kuwait said Monday that although Kuwaitis account for only a small percentage of foreign insurgents fighting in Iraq, their funding from the oil-rich country remains a concern that must be addressed.
Muslim hardliners in Kuwait's parliament walked out of the body's inaugural meeting on Sunday to protest two female Cabinet ministers who were not wearing headscarves.
Kuwait's parliamentary elections showed strong gains for Muslim hardliners, official results found Sunday, but women candidates failed to win a single seat.
Thousands of Kuwaitis have demonstrated against a government crackdown on illegal tribal primaries, with some of them throwing stones at a security building before storming it, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
Kuwait is looking to open an embassy in Iraq for the first time since Saddam Hussein invaded his tiny oil-rich neighbor in 1990, the country's foreign minister said Sunday.
Kuwait's emir dissolved parliament Wednesday and called for early elections after disputes between the government and lawmakers led to the resignation of the prime minister's entire Cabinet.
Kuwait's only female politician survived an attempt to oust her Tuesday by conservative lawmakers who accused her of mismanagement and endangering traditional religious values.
When former President Bush visited this major U.S. ally 15 years ago, tens of thousands of Kuwaitis greeted his arrival, showering him with gifts including a racing camel from one local Bedouin.
Iran is far from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and despite U.S. fears about its atomic intentions, an American military strike against the Islamic Republic is unlikely, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.
First lady Laura Bush told hundreds of U.S. troops Thursday that the American people stand by them in the Iraq war and the security situation in the country was improving due to their efforts.
First lady Laura Bush got a warm reception Wednesday in Kuwait, a nation that still holds her father-in-law, former President George H.W. Bush, in high regard for his role in liberating this Persian Gulf emirate from Iraqi occupation in 1991.
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