Kuwaiti’s constitutional court has ruled that women can obtain their own passports and travel without the approval of their husbands, putting an end to a 47-year-old law.
At least 41 people died and scores more were injured after a fire broke out in a tent reserved for women at a marriage ceremony west of Kuwait City in the worst civilian disaster in the modern history of the Gulf state.
Kuwait's interior ministry says it has arrested six suspected al Qaeda members believed to have been plotting an attack against a large US base on Kuwaiti territory.
According to an official at the Kuwaiti ministry of health, 18 US soldiers at the American military base in Kuwait have been infected with influenza A (H1N1), marking Kuwait's first confirmed cases. The soldiers have now left the country.
In this edition: Four women voted into Kuwait's parliament for the first time and the news is welcome on the Web; Chilean presidential candidate Marco Enriquez-Ominami creates a buzz; and the hidden side of Paris is unveiled online.
Four Kuwaiti women made history by winning their first ever parliament seats in the oil-rich Gulf state's elections, according to results released Sunday. Kuwaiti women, who make up 54.3% of the electorate, won the right to vote in 2005.
Kuwaitis voted on Saturday with little hope that their third election in three years will end a power struggle between parliament and the ruling family cabinet that has held up key economic reforms. Turnout was low as expected.
In this edition: Lebanese voters talking openly of perks and bribes in the upcoming general election; Kuwaiti women on the campaign trail; and Pope Benedict XVI's heavily scrutinised trip to the Holy Land.
The Kuwaiti cabinet agreed on Wednesday to dissolve parliament and hold elections in May, arising over a dispute between the cabinet and the MPs after PM Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah (pictured) was accused of corruption.
In this edition: the Kuwaiti blogosphere reacts to the possible suspension of Parliament; Morocco’s decision to cut ties with Iran sparks debate online; and see a blogger’s video about the things he hates about Facebook.
