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Monday, November 23

AP Features 5 days ago

Today is Monday, November 23, the 327th day of 2009. There are 38 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1499 - Perkin Warbeck, pretender to English throne, is executed. 1531 - Peace of Kappel ends second civil ...

Kuwait's Zain telecom third-quarter profit slumps

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

Kuwait's Zain telecom on Sunday posted a massive 52.7 percent drop in third-quarter profit and a smaller decline in its nine-month net income, the company said in a statement. Zain recorded a profit of 41.2 million dinars (144 million dollars) in the ...

Kuwait forecast to post huge budget surplus: bank

AFP Global Edition 10 days ago

OPEC member Kuwait is forecast to post a budget surplus of up to 22.3 billion dollars this fiscal year on the back of better than expected oil prices, a local bank said on Tuesday. "We estimate that the government will run a ...

US troops killed in Iraq and Kuwait

AP News 11 days ago

US troops who have died while serving in Iraq and Kuwait Army Spc. Paul E. Andersen On paper, Paul E. Andersen was a devoted military man who spent about 25 years with the Army Reserve. At heart, he was a kid. The ...

Kuwait MPs order probe into proposed arms deals

AFP Global Edition 17 days ago

Kuwait's parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to ask the Audit Bureau to probe three planned arms deals with the United States and France that one lawmaker said are worth billions of dollars. The decision, requested by 32 MPs and not opposed by ...

Gulf single currency may face delay: bank chief

AFP Global Edition 19 days ago

Gulf states plan to launch their monetary council, a precursor for a joint central bank, in 2010 but the planned single currency may be delayed, the Saudi central bank chief said on Sunday. "The (Gulf) monetary council will be established in 2010. ...

Gaultier begins squash world title bid as No 1

AFP Global Edition 20 days ago

Gregory Gaultier, the new world number one, will attempt to convince himself that it is not really the World Open which starts here on Sunday - in a psychological ploy to win the title for the first time. The superbly gifted but ...

UN pays out $610 million from Iraqi oil fund

AP News 22 days ago

UN pays $610 million from Iraqi oil fund to 10 claimants for losses from 1990 Kuwait invasion The U.N. panel overseeing compensation for victims of Iraq's 1990 Kuwait invasion said Thursday it has paid $610 million from Iraqi oil funds to cover ...

Swine flu deaths in Kuwait jump to 16

AFP Global Edition 22 days ago

Kuwait reported two more deaths from swine flu on Thursday taking the Gulf emirate's death toll from the A(H1N1) virus to 16. The health ministry said that both of the dead -- a 16-year old boy and a man in his 30s ...

US military: US soldier killed in Kuwait accident

AP News 22 days ago

US military says one American soldier killed in accident in Kuwait The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in an accident in Kuwait. The brief statement says the accident, which took place on Thursday, is under investigation. There were ...

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