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Kuwait, Under New Emir, Votes Yet Again

Kuwait's elections are only the second held during the holy month of Ramadan, whose first day was marked cannon fire for Iftar, the time to break the daytime fast, at sunset at Naif Palace in Kuwait City (Credit: AFP)

Vote-weary Kuwait heads to the polls for the third time in three years on Thursday, just months into the reign of a new emir but with no end in sight to the major oil exporter's chronic political paralysis.

Elections have become an almost annual occurrence for the OPEC member country, which has seven percent of the world's oil reserves and the monarchical Gulf's most powerful elected assembly.

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