1. A Kuwaiti newspaper reported last week that Saddam is suffering from colon cancer. 2. A Kuwaiti newspaper reported that former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres once suggested to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he declare a Palestinian state in Gaza. 3. A pro-government Kuwaiti newspaper reported during the weekend that Iraq has planned sabotage attacks on Kuwait, including hiring a Filipino man to hijack a Kuwaiti airliner. 4. A Palestinian poet convicted of slandering a Kuwaiti newspaper columnist has been deported despite appeals from human rights activists. 5. A Qatari woman convicted of spying on Bahrain says she signed confessions and did a television interview under psychological pressure, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Sunday. 6. An Egyptian behaved bravely as he was taken to the scaffold to be hanged for murdering a man with a hammer, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Wednesday. 7. Bou Yabes, who works for a Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Siyassah, said he conducted the interviews at his own initiative. 8. But a Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Rai Al-Amm, reported Tuesday that the two countries will exchange ambassadors within a few weeks. 9. But Kuwaiti newspaper editors have written that the opposition generated by the affair could lead to a cabinet reshuffle or early elections. 10. Earlier, a Kuwaiti newspaper said Kuwait was sending food and medicine to Kenya and Tanzania, also site of a bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy. |