News in Brief
Kuwait elects opposition-led parliament
AFP – Opposition lawmakers won a majority in Kuwait’s parliament in the Persian Gulf state’s seventh general election in just over a decade, with only one woman voted into office, according to results announced on Wednesday.
The vote on Tuesday came after Kuwait’s constitutional court in March annulled the results of last year’s election – in which the opposition made significant gains – and reinstated the previous parliament elected in 2020.
Sudan military factions battle over weapons, fuel depots
REUTERS – Sudan’s army has been battling to defend a military industrial complex believed to contain large stocks of weapons and ammunition in southern Khartoum, close to fuel and gas depots that are at risk of exploding, residents said on Wednesday.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in the eighth week of a power struggle with the army, had attacked the area containing the Yarmouk complex late on Tuesday before retreating after heavy fighting, witnesses said. Clashes could still be heard on Wednesday morning.
Florida jury involved in Trump probe by Justice Dept.
AP – Federal prosecutors are using a grand jury in Florida as part of their investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents at former U.S. president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach property, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night.
The grand jury is in addition to a separate panel that has been meeting in Washington for months to consider charges against Trump over the retention of hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and potential obstruction of the government’s efforts to reclaim the records.