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Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah of Kuwait has been found guilty by a Swiss court of forgery.

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Oil prices slipped again on Wednesday as energy workers in Kuwait ended a three-day strike that had cut the country's production of crude by nearly half.

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A court in Kuwait has sentenced seven people to death over a suicide bombing in June, the state news agency reports. The attack, at a Shi’ite Muslim

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A national day of mourning is being observed in Kuwait, as the funerals take place of 27 people who died in Friday’s suicide attack on a mosque. The

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As Kuwait marked a day of national mourning, officials announced the arrest of several suspects following a deadly suicide bomb explosion at a

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