A SAUDI judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man’s spinal cord as punishment after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralysing him.

The highest court of appeal in Kuwait today overturned the conviction of a former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, acquitting him of terror-related charges, his lawyer said.

Women went to the polls today for the first time in Kuwait, voting for parliament members in an election that has shaken up politics-as-usual in the conservative oil-rich emirate.

A Kuwaiti man was condemned to death today for murdering an American civilian working for the US military.

A KUWAITI civil servant has confessed to opening fire on two Americans in Kuwait, killing one and wounding the other.