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The oil producing Gulf States have so far provided Egypt with $6 billion worth of free oil since last July, the head of Egypt's General Petroleum Corporation revealed. Al-Mal,...

Two Kuwaiti members of parliament resigned in protest on Wednesday after the parliament refused to grant their request to question Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah over allegations...

Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome met on Monday with Rashad Mustafa Shawa, chairperson of the Swiss water company Mai Resources International, to discuss the mechanisms of exporting his country's Nile...

The Arab Parliament called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories to achieve peace and stability in the region. Kuwait's chief delegate and parliamentary speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim...

A Kuwaiti court ordered two Kuwaiti newspapers to stop printing on Sunday for two weeks for violating orders which prohibit the publication of information about an alleged coup plot...

So who won the diplomatic war of words that threatened to fragment the Gulf Cooperation Council, and make a nonsense of its name? Did the Saudis step back from...

The dispute between the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar "will be resolved soon" as things are "moving in a positive direction towards containing the issue", Kuwait's Foreign Ministry...

The United Arab Emirates has denied entry to seven Kuwaiti university students who were due to study in the UAE, Kuwaiti MP Hussein Alqoiean reported. Alqoiean said the Emirati...

Kuwait's Foreign Ministry has categorically denied the claims made by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman about holding secret talks with Israel. Kuwait's state-run KUNA news agency quoted on Monday...

Kuwait's opposition bloc has said it will call for mass protests across the country hours after it announced its first national political reform project. A senior opposition figure said...

Kuwaiti Endowments and Justice Minister Nayef al-Ajami submitted his resignation to the ministerial council on Friday, Anadolu news agency said. The measure came after an American official had accused...

The Dubai Chief of Police, Dhahi Khalfan, has accused the Gulf States, and especially Kuwait, of destroying Iraq, saying Kuwait's unprecedented retaliation against former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion...

The Arab Summit scheduled to be held in Kuwait Tuesday will not issue a final statement, unlike other Summits in the past, a Kuwaiti diplomat told Al-Arab Al-Youm newspaper...

Kuwait is hosting the 25th Arab Summit Tuesday-Wednesday in the absence of eight Arab heads of state, including four with health conditions. A total of 14 presidents are scheduled...

Thirteen heads of state confirmed their attendance of the Arab Summit to be hosted by Kuwait on March 25-26, Kuwait's Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah...

An Arab League delegation headed by Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Ahmed Bin Heli flew to Kuwait yesterday in preparation to the 35th Arab Summit that kicks off next week. The...

A senior member of the Islamic Constitutional Movement, a Sunni Islamist party in Kuwait affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and known in Arabic by the acronym Hadas, denied claims...

The Kuwaiti Administrative Court on Tuesday adjourned till March 25 a lawsuit that calls for banning the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated "Social Reform Association" , the Al-Arab newspaper said on Wednesday....

The permanent representative of Kuwait to the United Nations, Mansour Al-Otaibi, has revealed that the Arab Group is calling for securing permanent representation in the United Nations Security Council....

The Dubai Deputy Police Chief Dhahi Khalfan's allegations that Kuwait finances the Muslim Brotherhood have sparked a wave of fury in Kuwait and other Gulf countries. The Kuwaiti MP...

Khaled Al-Jarallah, Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister, said in press statements that the upcoming Arab Summit in Kuwait will not address the recent crisis between Qatar and the three GCC...

A senior Kuwaiti official has travelled to Algeria to ask for help boosting his country's mediation efforts aiming to resolve an impasse between a number of Gulf States with...

Kuwait is making vigorous diplomatic efforts among several neighbouring countries to calm the atmosphere in the region ahead of the Arab summit to be hosted in Kuwait City on...

Kuwaiti opposition parties have indicated that they will oppose the controversial Gulf security pact, arguing that it violates freedoms guaranteed by Kuwait's Constitution. The controversy revolves around a clause...

New data released by the Stockhold International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an authoritative research body covering the global arms trade, shows how UAE and Saudi Arabia are currently the...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has announced its support for Malaysia's candidacy to occupy Asia's non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council for 2015 and 2016. Kuwait's diplomatic attaché...

By Dr. Abdul Wahhab Al-Effendi22/12/2009 The steel wall that Egypt intends to build on its borders with besieged Gaza illustrates the double bind that resulted from the Camp David...