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Updated 05 January 2024
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Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah appointed prime minister of Kuwait

Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah appointed prime minister of Kuwait
Updated 05 January 2024
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DUBAI: A Kuwaiti Emiri decree has appointed Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah as prime minister, the state news agency, KUNA, reported on Thursday.

Sheikh Mohammed has been assigned to nominate members of the new government, KUNA added, citing the decree. 

Some highlights of Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah's life so far:

  • He was born in 1955 and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Claremont Graduate University, California, and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
  • He held position of teaching assistant at the Faculty of Commerce, Economics and Political Sciences at Kuwait University between 1979 and 1985. He was then appointed as a professor in the department in 1985.
  • He worked at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research from 1987 to 1988.
  • He was appointed ambassador of Kuwait to the US in 1993 and held that position until he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on Feb. 14, 2001.
  • He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Acting Minister of Social Affairs and Labor on July 14, 2003.
  • On Feb. 9, 2006, he was named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was reappointed in the same posts in July 2006 and March 2007, and in the cabinet reshuffles of October 2007 and May 2008.
  • On Jan. 12, 2009, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Acting Minister of Oil.
  • On May 29, 2009, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
  • On May 8, 2011, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and held these positions in government until Oct. 2011.
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ANKARA: The body of an eight-year-old girl who had been missing in Turkiye for 19 days has been found after an enormous manhunt, the interior minister said on Sunday.
The body of Narin Guran was found in a bag in a river in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, around one kilometer from the village where she lived with her family, Diyarbakir governor Murat Zorluoglu told reporters.
“Unfortunately, the lifeless body of Narin, who went missing in the village of Tavsantepe... has been found,” Turkish interior minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
She disappeared on August 21, sparking a huge search effort in Turkiye, with a number of well-known figures joining a social media campaign called “Find Narin.”
“Narin Guran was found dead wearing the same clothes as the last time she was seen,” said Zorluoglu.
“Based on the first observations, she was put into a bag after she was killed. The bag was then placed in the river, hidden under branches and rocks so as not to raise suspicion,” he added.
Diyarbakir prosecutors have detained 21 people, said Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc.
The girl’s uncle was arrested last week on suspicion of murder and “deprivation of liberty.”
“Our president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is following the case closely to guarantee that the ongoing investigation continues thoroughly and that those who took Narin’s life answer before the law,” the president’s communications director Fahrettin Altun said on X.
Turkiye’s pro-Kurdish party DEM has called for a march to take place in Diyarbakir on Sunday evening.
“Narin was killed in an organized manner. Those responsible for this murder, which has saddened us all, must be revealed and held accountable before an impartial and independent justice system,” DEM wrote on X.
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PORT SUDAN: Sudan has rejected a call by UN experts for the deployment of an “independent and impartial force” to protect millions of civilians driven from their homes by more than a year of war.
The conflict since April last year, pitting the army against paramilitary forces, has killed tens of thousands of people and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The independent UN experts said Friday their fact-finding mission had uncovered “harrowing” violations by both sides, “which may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
They called for “an independent and impartial force with a mandate to safeguard civilians” to be deployed “without delay.”
The Sudanese foreign ministry, which is loyal to the army under General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, said in a statement late Saturday that “the Sudanese government rejects in their entirety the recommendations of the UN mission.”
It called the UN Human Rights Council, which created the fact-finding mission last year, “a political and illegal body,” and the panel’s recommendations “a flagrant violation of their mandate.”
The UN experts said eight million civilians have been displaced and another two million people have fled to neighboring countries.
More than 25 million people — upwards of half the country’s population — face acute food shortages.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on a visit to Sudan on Sunday, said: “The scale of the emergency is shocking, as is the insufficient action being taken to curtail the conflict and respond to the suffering it is causing.”
In Port Sudan, where government offices and the United Nations have relocated to due to the intense fighting in the capital Khartoum, Tedros called on the “world to wake up and help Sudan out of the nightmare it is living through.”
The Sudanese foreign ministry statement accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Burhan’s former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, of “systematically targeting civilians and civilian institutions.”
“The protection of civilians remains an absolute priority for the Sudanese government,” it said.
The statement added that the UN Human Rights Council’s role should be “to support the national process, rather than seek to impose a different exterior mechanism.”
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Pezeshkian will head a high-ranking Iranians delegation to Baghdad to meet senior Iraqi officials.
The visit comes at the invitation of Iraq’s premier, Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, the official IRNA news agency quoted Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad Mohammad Kazem Al-Sadegh as saying.
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