News on Kuwait City

Mideast Kuwait Heat

2010-06-21T12:16:58Z

View of the Ministry of Electricity and Water clock tower in Zahra area, Kuwait City with its thermometer indicating 50 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. The ministry informed that Kuwait’s power consumption reached a record Tuesday as a result of scorching summer temperatures. The situ...

ML Mideast Kuwait GCC

2010-03-29T04:17:18Z

President of the UAE Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nuhayyan, right, during the opening session of the two-day gathering of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) leaders where they attended the 30th summit of the organization in Bayan Palace, Kuwait City on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

Public Warehousing Co., 90 KM. north of Kuwait City. The company has been charged with multiple conspiracy counts to defraud the US in connection with multibillion-dollar contracts with Kuwait City. Kuwait's highest court granted women the right to obtain a passport without their husband's approval, the case's lawyer said Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 in the latest stride for women's rights in this small oil-rich emirate. (AP File Photo/Gustavo Ferrari, File)

Kuwait-Wedding Fire

2010-04-04T05:17:37Z

Kuwaiti policemen checK Monday Aug. 17, 2009 the area where over 40 women and children died in a fire at a wedding tent on Saturday Aug. 15. Kuwaiti authorities have apprehended a person suspected of setting fire to the wedding tent said Monday the motive was personal. Local newspapers reported the groom's ex-wife was the arsonist. The inferno Saturday night in the tribal area of al-Jahra, west of Kuwait City, ate up the women's tent in jus...