Kuwaiti lawmakers voted on Thursday in favour of a legal amendment that would make insulting God and the Prophet Mohammed punishable by death, following a furore over a Shiite man who allegedly posted defamatory material on Twitter.
The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- have agreed to expel their Syrian ambassadors and recall their own envoys from Damascus, a statement issued Tuesday said.
Kuwaiti opposition rallies to make its voice heard. Republican candidate Herman Cain is mocked by web users. And net users are asked to part in the next Batman film soundtrack.
Dozens of anti-government protesters briefly pushed their way into Kuwait’s parliament Wednesday while opposition lawmakers were debating how to question the country’s prime minister over corruption allegations – a sign of rising political tensions.
As the opposition calls for new protests in Syria, we ask whether President Bashar al-Assad is really a reformer. In Kuwait, the stateless Bidoons take the streets to demand more rights. Finally, Israel indicts a Palestinian engineer for masterminding Hamas' rocket program - we bring you the details of the mysterious case.
The web bears witness to tensions in Indian Kashmir. A Kuwaiti cartoon outrages the Moroccan blogosphere. And Eva Longoria is organizing a Twitter auction for Haiti
Two Spanish hostages held by al Qaeda's North African offshoot are freed. But rumours in the press that a ransom was paid lead to a burning debate on whether cash should be handed to militants. In Morocco, youngsters ignore the holy month of Ramadan. And a Kuwaiti TV station is forced to apologise. After an animated series paints a less than complimentary picture of Moroccan women. Officials say the program amounts to international slander.
Security agencies in Kuwait have intercepted an Iranian spy cell meant to provide Tehran with information on Kuwaiti and US targets, according to the newspaper Al-Qabas. Iran’s foreign ministry rebuked the report, calling it "utterly baseless".
Egyptian authorities have denied any part in the expulsion from Kuwait of 17 Egyptians who had announced on Facebook that they would hold a public meeting to support Egyptian reformist and potential presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei.
