Thursday's FNR!

HONOLULU (AP) - A federal court has ruled that a Kuwaiti-born man may collect monetary damages from the city of Honolulu following claims that he was arrested based on unjustified suspicions of terrorism.

                    -- Mansour Arekat is the man in question. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

KUWAIT: Detectives in the Capital area are sifting through footage from CCTV and road speed radar cameras in their attempts to track the movements of the ex-husband of a Kuwaiti woman brutally murdered near her Bneid Al-Gar home on Sunday.
                    -- He has been dubbed the "axe murderer." Not quite unique!

DOHA — The Kuwait Football Association (KFA) on Sunday made an official complaint about Australian referee Benjamin Williams, who oversaw their 2-0 defeat by China in their opening Asian Cup group game.
                    -- Missed penalty? Harsh red-card? Disallowed goal? Yet Ben keeps refereeing games. Long live corruption!

The Philippine men's football team's recent success in the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup continues to reap results after three members of the West Asian Football Federation threw in their support for the country's football program. Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait have pooled together $100,000 (4,431,000) as a monetary grant to help the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) organize national tournaments.
                    -- Phillipino football? I was thinking about that just about 15 minutes ago!

WASHINGTON — An American teenager detained in Kuwait two weeks ago and placed on an American no-fly list claims that he was severely beaten by his Kuwaiti captors during a weeklong interrogation about possible contacts with terrorism suspects in Yemen.
                    -- Now the NY Times is in on this too? Goodluck lads!

دبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة (CNN) -- وصل رئيس مجلس الوزراء الكويتي، الشيخ ناصر المحمد الأحمد الصباح، إلى العاصمة العراقية، بغداد، الأربعاء، في أول زيارة رسمية لمسؤول كويتي منذ الغزو العراقي للكويت عام 1990

  انه امر مؤسف حقاً

الدوحة (ا ف ب) - اعترف رئيس الاتحاد الاسيوي لكرة القدم القطري محمد بن همام بان المنتخب الكويتي ظلم تحكيميا في مباراته الاولى ضد الصين ضمن بطولة كأس اسيا 2011 في الدوحة، لكنه نفى وجود مؤامرة عليه من الاتحاد القاري.

يا لطيييييييييف         

The Friday Night Report is Back!

Yes it is. However, since the blog is on a Friday-Saturday weekend schedule, it was deemed necessary to switch the FNR to Thursday night, and change it's name to Thursday's FNR! Arabic news will be added in addition to a renovation of the overall decor. See you next Thursday (night) boys and girls!

The Friday Night Report on Sunday!

Iran announced recently that they have developed a remedy that can help AIDS patients in a way unseen before! The new drug, called IMOD, was unveiled in February of 2007. However, it received little media coverage by most of the world's media outlets. Despite the lack of coverage, the drug looks real, and is yet another step towards finding a cure.

In older news that is worth republishing, an Egyptian doctor claims to have found a cure for all types of cancer by balancing the ill cells in the body. The news was carried by Akhbar Ilyoum (Akhir Sa3a) three years ago, and was first reported seven years ago. Therefore, I would not regard this news as 100 percent solid. However, it does give hope to the hopeless and May God Cure us all.

It's getting hotter in KC but the overcast skies should continue for another week or two. Until next time, welcome summer, goodbye everything else!

The Friday Night Report

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back! Well, we still don't have a government, the weather is undecided, and the bird-flu pandemic seems to have gotten stagnant all of a sudden. In other news, the olympic team managed to win one for the team as they beat Bahrain and put us in the driver's seat for qualification to the next round of games! Good job lads. That's about it for now. Check back next week for more, if you want to!

The Friday Night Report

What a turn of events! Bird flu shows up in Kuwait, followed by the government's resignation! The bird flu issue is being dealt with randomly as any observer can see from media coverage, while the government's resignation will be made official tonight (Sunday). It seems that this is last chance salon for the parliament. The government will return with new ministers, and hope that parliament cooperates and the reform movement can finally get underway. Otherwise, expect a dissolution of the parliament in 6-8 months. Cheers mates.

As for our boy Mohammed Al-Ghareeb, he did get into the Dubai Tennis Championships as a wildcard, and lost in the first round to 6th seeded Czech Berdych with a score of 6-3, 3-6, and 2-6. Better luck next time. You did us proud.