Kuwaiti Emir appoints Jaber as PM

Kuwait's outgoing defence minister Shaikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Sabah was yesterday appointed by Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah to replace Shaikh Nasser Al Mohammad as the country's next prime minister. Shaikh Nasser, under intense pressure from the opposition and growing street tactics that included storming the parliament and angrily protesting against the detention of 24 people in the assault, tendered his resignation on Monday following an emergency meeting of the cabinet chaired by the Emir. However, the new government will last less than two months, the time to oversee the parliamentary elections that will follow the dissolution of the parliament. According to media sources in Kuwait City, the new government to be announced by the Emir ‘within hours or days,' will submit its resignation, citing non-cooperation from the parliament, where at least 20 MPs have refused to attend committee meetings.