Kuwait - Kuwait on Sunday formed a new government led by the Prime Minister, Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The Deputy Amir, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber AlSabah signed a decree approving the new a 15-member government line-up. The Gulf Arab state also named a new defence minister, Sheikh Ahmad...
Iraqi MPs from firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr’s bloc resign: official
Iraqi lawmakers from firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's bloc resigned Sunday, the parliamentary speaker said, in a move ostensibly designed to up pressure to end an eight-month political paralysis. Sadr on Thursday had urged the MPs from his bloc - the biggest in parliament - to ready resignation papers, in...
UN calls on Iraqi politicians to end seven-month stalemate
The UN envoy to Iraq on Tuesday urged Iraqi politicians to end a deadlock which has kept parliament from forming a new government for more than seven months, warning that the crisis could spark civil unrest. "The streets are about to boil over in Iraq," Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told reporters.
Lebanese parliament approves new government
Mikati's 24-member cabinet will be expected to offer solutions to shortages of medicine and fuel and to launch a ration card programme to protect the poorest.
Israel’s Bedouin sceptical of new govt promises
The vast majority of Israel's nearly 300,000 Bedouin live in the arid Negev in the south of the country The Bedouin belong to the community of Israeli Arabs, descendants of the Palestinians who remained on their land when Israel was founded in 1948 From her tin-roof home in the sweltering...
