http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/414/ en_GB_uk Kuwait http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/79968 OneWorld was among many news sites and blogs to highlight the detention of Kuwaiti blogger Bashar Al-Sayegh this week. Now they're reporting on his release. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/79905 Roughly a month after the trial of an Egyptian blogger, the detention of Kuwaiti journalist and blogger Bashar Al-Sayegh has elicited strong criticism from Kuwaitis who assert that the government has violated the national constitution. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71356 Kuwaiti women have voted for the first time, going to the polls to choose a local council member in the district of Salmiya. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/117700/1/ Kuwait's State Ministry of Communications (MOC) is buying a gigabit passive optical network (GPON) solution that will serve about 60 per cent of the access areas involved in the present roll-out. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/95499/1/ KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait, October 6, 2004 (ENS) - Access to Iraq's two deepwater seaports is blocked and the marine environment of the entire northern Persian Gulf is threatened by hundreds of sunken ships that were wrecked in wars over the past 25 years, according to a detailed new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/29352 Amid what appear to be accelerating preparations for a new conflict with Iraq, Jonathan Lash looks back at the environmental consequences of the 1991 Gulf War and finds a disaster. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/29352 The environmental consequences of a war against Iraq could be worse than the last time, when croplands were destroyed, plants, animals and freshwater were poisoned and oil on tarred beaches killed nearly 25,000 birds, warns World Resources Institute President Jonathan Lash. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/32578 Jonathan Lash says the environmental consequences of the 1991 Gulf War were disastrous. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/29822 The suspension of the Al-Jazeera broadcasting network's Kuwait bureau by the Kuwait government was condemned by an international media watchdog yesterday. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/93 Kuwait and Bahrain have become the latest countries to voice support for the creation of an international fund to promote science and technology in the Muslim World. http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/41938 More than 150 Palestinian and Israeli youth have met over the last three years to create giant mosaic that will be placed in a park on the Israel-Palestine border. The mosaic symbolises a fear-free future and may well become a meeting place for the peoples of the region and the world. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/4243 The United States and Europe are calling for democratic change in Kuwait - to include the right to vote for women - in return for support during the Gulf war. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/4243 European countries and the United States expect democratic change in Kuwait in return for their support during the Gulf War - and this includes giving women the right to vote. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/4497 Foreign ministers from 22 Arab nations are struggling to iron out regional splits caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait 11 years ago at the first Arab League Summit since 1990. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/4516 A police officer suspected of murdering the editor of a Kuwaiti weekly magazine has confessed he was driven to carry out the killing by anger at one of her articles, according to international press reports.