State-owned Kuwait Oil Company today announced a 25 per cent reduction in its budget for the next five years. Local media quoted a company statement as saying that the...

Details of human trafficking in Kuwait which saw the arrest of an MP from Bangladesh suggests that the scandal is not simply a case of one single rogue lawmaker....

Kuwaiti prosecutors on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the son of a former prime minister and his partner amid a corruption probe of the so-called “Malaysian Sovereign Fund”...

Reports have revealed that many Kuwaitis refuse to accept jobs which have previously been completed by expatriate workers because the salaries are too low. Kuwait’s Al-Anbaa newspaper said it had obtained...

Nine Arab countries on Tuesday called for an effective international stance against an Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, reports Anadolu Agency. The foreign ministers...

State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said in a statement that it has no plans to offer jobs to Jordanians in the oil sector. “There is no previous or later...

A number of Kuwaiti banks have warned of millions of dollars in losses due to delays of repayments of loans amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus which is threatening...

A $15 billion railway connecting the Gulf States is expected to begin operating in 2023, following almost twenty years of stalling and uncertainty, Saudi newspaper Al-Jazirah has revealed. The...

Commenting on expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Speaker of Kuwaiti Parliament Marzouq Al-Ghanim has called on the international community to stop Israel’s “arrogance”, Quds Press reported yesterday....

The Gulf state of Kuwait is the most dependent on revenues of fossil oil among the world countries, a recent report issued by the World Bank revealed, according to...

Health authorities on Friday in Oman, Bahrain, Sudan and Kuwait reported new infections and deaths from coronavirus, Anadolu Agency reports. The Omani Health Ministry said that within the past 24 hours,...

The Ministry of Interior decided to cancel the deportation for residents who overstayed from 2 Jan to 29 Feb due to the closure of government ministries as a result...

Production has resumed at the Al-Khafji joint oil field located in the neutral zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the acting CEO of the Kuwait Gulf Oil Company said...

The latest Black Lives Matter protests triggered by the killing of George Floyd on 25 May by a Minneapolis police officer highlight the fact that we live in a...

Kuwait’s minister of finance yesterday discussed economic reforms which include the gradual cutting of subsidies for citizens within the framework of measures to rescue public finances which have been...

A German court ruled in favour of Kuwait Airways, after an Israeli citizen filed a lawsuit against the company for cancelling his reservation as he was not allowed to...

There are some 100,000 stateless people in Kuwait, deemed to be 'illegal residents' by the government

The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, said on Saturday that one of his country’s top priorities is to expand ties with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, Al-Khaleej...

More than 92,000 expatriates left Kuwait in April, May and June through Kuwait International Airport, the Director of Operations at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) at Kuwait...

A key partner in a high-profile corruption case in Kuwait, which involves the son of a former senior official, is one of the founding owners of a New York-based...

Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi on Monday received an official invitation from his Kuwaiti counterpart, Marzouq Al-Ghanim, to visit Kuwait as the head of a parliamentary delegation, with the...

Three Kuwaiti officials were arrested after the Minister of State for Services Affairs, Mubarak Al-Haris, held them responsible for losses in the country’s civil aviation industry. According to the...

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Economic Affairs has proposed an 150 per cent increase in expatriate service fees. The ministry’s proposal aimed at addressing the demographic imbalance in Kuwait where...

As oil prices stay low due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Ahmed Nasser Al-Sabah has called on Iraq make moves at a regional and international level to...

Kuwait’s Minister of Oil and acting Minister of Electricity and Water, Dr. Khaled Al Fadil announced yesterday that the Gulf state will no longer hire expatriate workers in state-owned...

Some 4,237 Egyptian expats were repatriated from Kuwait yesterday on board 22 flights after the suspension of commercial travel due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Egyptian...

In response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, people around the world have taken to the streets in huge numbers in solidarity with protesters in America. The...

Kuwait’s Cabinet has agreed to cut government budgets by at least 20 per cent during the 2020-2021  fiscal year, it announced in a tweet yesterday. According to the announcement,...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi approved a second loan agreement worth 26 million Kuwaiti dinars ($84.5 million) to be offered by Kuwait for Egypt to fund the establishment of...

With a third of the world’s population on lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is growing evidence that oceans, rivers and lakes are cleaner and once more full...

The US State Department yesterday announced that it had approved the sale of $1.4 billion of Patriot air and missile defence system components and upgrades to Kuwait. According to Reuters,...

A proposed law by Kuwaiti MPs has been submitted which seeks to address a long-standing demographic imbalance between expat workers and Kuwaiti nationals. If approved, it could lead to...