Kuwait

Kuwait

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  Kuwait launches sports clubs for women

  Muneera al-Shatti has loved playing basketball since she was a child but it wasn't until Thursday that she had chance to show off her skills at a ... 

• Kuwait court keeps jail time for Twitter insult

  A Kuwait appeals court says an online activist must serve a jail sentence for Twitter posts deemed offensive to the Gulf nation's ruler, but the ... 

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  Kuwait studies possible retreat from media law

  Kuwait put proposals to impose tough new media laws on hold Thursday after the country's prime minister suggested that objections from press groups ... 

• Press watchdog urges Kuwait to rethink media laws

  An international press freedom group is urging Kuwait to abandon proposals to tighten media laws that could bring fines of nearly $1 million for ... 

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  Kuwait ex-MP freed to fight emir insult sentence

  A defense lawyer in Kuwait says a former parliament member was granted bail and will remain free while fighting a five-year sentence for a speech ... 

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  Muzzle on dissent in Gulf faces backlash in Kuwait

  Outside a palm-shaded villa in suburban Kuwait City, government security forces are taunted and defied each night by supporters of a former lawmaker ... 

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  Kuwait opposition leader sentenced to 5 years

  A leader of Kuwait's opposition has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of insulting the emir during a political rally last year, ... 

• Report: Kuwait proposes $1M fine for emir insults

  Kuwait's information minister is defending a proposed media law that reports say could bring fines of about $1 million for insulting the Gulf nation's ... 

• Kuwait online activist jailed for Twitter posts

  A human rights campaigner in Kuwait says a Twitter user has been sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the ruler of the Gulf nation. 

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  US court charges al-Qaida spokesman on 9/11 crimes

  A senior al-Qaida leader and member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle was charged Thursday with conspiring to kill Americans in his role as the terror ... 

• Kuwait jails 2 for offending emir

  Two activists have been jailed in Kuwait for Twitter posts that authorities claimed were offensive to the country's ruler. The sentences are part of ... 

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  Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf buried at West Point

  Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the no-nonsense Desert Storm commander famously nicknamed "Stormin' Norman," graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West ... 

• Iraq resumes flights to Kuwait after 22-year halt

  An Iraqi Airways flight landed in Kuwait on Wednesday for the first time since Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of the tiny emirate as the neighboring ... 

• Qatar poet remains in prison for 'offensive' verse

  A poet jailed for a verse considered offensive to Qatar's ruler harshly denounced the Gulf nation's legal proceedings on Monday after an appeals court ... 

• Iraq, Kuwait to resume flights after 22-year halt

  Iraq's Transportation Ministry says that country's airline will resume commercial flights to Kuwait for the first time since Saddam Hussein's forces ... 

• Kuwait: Iraq to resume flights after 22-year halt

  Kuwait's civil aviation chief says Iraqi Airways will resume commercial flights to the Gulf nation for the first time since the invasion of Saddam ... 

• Kuwait sentences 3 former MPs for emir insults

  Three former Kuwaiti opposition lawmakers were sentenced to three years hard labor Tuesday for insulting the country's ruler in the latest crackdown ... 

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  Gulf leads UN appeal for major boost in Syrian aid

  An emergency U.N. appeal to raise $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid for Syria exceeded its goal Wednesday at a conference with dire predictions of ... 

• UN Kuwait invasion fund pays out $1.3 billion

  The U.N. panel that settles claims for damages from victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait has paid out another $1.3 billion — bringing the total ... 

• Kuwait lawmakers clear airline privatization plan

  Kuwait's parliament has approved a privatization plan for the struggling flagship carrier Kuwait Airways that includes a special government-appointed ... 

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  Gulf rulers take sharper aim at Web dissent

  Something unusual happened on Kuwait's normally boisterous online universe after back-to-back convictions this week for insulting the emir on Twitter: ... 

• Kuwait gives green light to airline privatization

  A parliamentary committee in Kuwait has approved the privatization of struggling flagship carrier Kuwait Airways, but says the process could take up ... 

• Kuwaiti journalist jailed for Twitter 'insults'

  A Kuwait newspaper says an online journalist has been sentenced to two years in prison for posts deemed "insulting" to the Gulf nation's ruler — the ... 

• Correction: Obit-Schwarzkopf story

  In a story Dec. 28 about the death of U.S. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, The Associated Press reported erroneously the date of Schwarzkopf's birth. He was ...