{"id":5625,"date":"2018-11-10T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2018-11-10T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T06:41:08","slug":"kuwait-public-works-minister-resigns-after-damaging-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/11\/10\/kuwait-public-works-minister-resigns-after-damaging-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait public works minister resigns after damaging flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait\u2019s Minister of Public Works, Hussam Al-Roumi, resigned on Friday following heavy rainfall that caused damaging flooding across the country, state news agency KUNA reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of my moral responsibility &#8230; I have submitted my resignation to the prime minister,\u201d Al-Roumi said.<\/p>\n<p>The army and national guard were mobilized to help clear water from critical facilities and roadways and the Kuwait Oil Company announced a state of emergency, KUNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>No deaths or injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament speaker Marzouq al-Ghanim said a meeting would be held on Sunday to discuss the impact of the flooding, KUNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait\u2019s Minister of Public Works, Hussam Al-Roumi, resigned on Friday following heavy rainfall that caused damaging flooding across the country, state news agency KUNA reported on Friday. \u201cOut of my moral responsibility &#8230; I have submitted my resignation to the prime minister,\u201d Al-Roumi said. The army and national guard were mobilized to help clear water &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}