Almost constant factional infighting over the past seven years has prompted repeated elections in Kuwait.
Egypt’s first freely elected leader has been held at an undisclosed location since the army removed him from power on July 3.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have offered Egypt $8 billion in grants and loans, while Kuwait has pledged a further $4 billion.
A bunch of kids in T-shirts changed the course of the Arab world’s most populous nation by mobilising mass protests against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood.
Following the ascension of Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who will join him in the future in leading the Gulf states?
The phone calls from the US president came on a day when the UAE and Saudi offered $8 billion in aid to Cairo.
Interim leader Adli Mansour has decreed that a parliamentary vote will be held in about six months, followed by a presidential election.
The majority of respondents in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen feel the level of corruption has risen in the past two years.
The U.S. is not prepared to label the Egyptian military’s overthrow of the government as a coup, a move that would determine if aid to the country would continue.
President Mohamed Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood is urging Egyptians to rise up against the army.
Ousting an elected president by the military, without an election, is unquestionably undemocratic, say analysts.
The UAE pledged $3 billion in aid for Egypt in 2011 that has yet to be delivered.
A presidential spokesman has told reporters that Mohamed ElBaradei had not in fact been chosen as prime minister.
ElBaradei was among liberal leaders who opposed Mursi and called for massive protests.
Kuwait’s ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah congratulated Egypt’s interim president and people.
Adli Mansour, chief justice at Cairo’s constitutional court, will replace temporarily Mursi as head of state.
A look back at the past 12 months of Mohamed Morsi’s reign in power.
The men were being held in Torah prison on the outskirts of Cairo.
Saudi’s King Abdullah and the UAE government have sent congratulations to Adli Mansour, who had been appointed as interim head of state.
Islamist President Mohamed Mursi is toppled after a year in office as people protested against political upheaval and economic stagnation.
Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh urged Egypt’s opposing sides to meet to find a solution to the crisis.
Mursi is either expected to step down or be removed from office once the army deadline passes on Wednesday.
Supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi have clashed with security forces in Cairo.
Eight men were sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison, 56 were jailed for 10 years and five for seven years.
The head of the armed forces gave president Mohamed Mursi 48 hours on Monday to end a crisis or face a solution imposed by the military.
The head of the armed forces set a 48-hour deadline on Monday for Mursi to agree on a common platform with liberal rivals.
Sunni Muslim Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar have backed the rebels with arms and money in a fight to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
The European Union lifted restrictions on arming the rebels in May. Britain and France said they would not send weapons before August 1.
Medical and security sources said that at least eight people had been killed in the violence at the besieged building.
The top U.S. diplomat has met both Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.