Veteran PM asked to form new Kuwait cabinet

Kuwait's veteran premier, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, was asked yesterday to form his seventh government in five years despite opposition protests, state news agency KUNA announced.
Sheikh Nasser, a nephew of the emir who re-appointed him, resigned last week after MPs sought to question three of his top ministers, in a political crisis which the cabinet deemed dangerous to national unity.
The emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, reappointed Sheikh Nasser, 71, over stiff opposition from several MPs and a youth campaign which amassed thousands of signatures against his re-appointment.