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Kuwaitis vote amid disputes over subsidies

Kuwait City, Kuwait ( AFP) – by Omar Hassan Kuwaitis vote Saturday to elect the seventh parliament in a decade in the oil-rich Gulf emirate, at a time of sharp disputes over subsidy cuts due to falling oil revenues. The snap polls see the return of opposition groups after a four-year boycott in protest at the government’s amendment of the electoral law. The emir dissolved the last parliament after MPs called for ministers to be grilled over subsidy […]