Kuwaiti Cabinet ministers submit resignations amid tension

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two senior Cabinet ministers in Kuwait have submitted their resignations to the prime minister, citing political turbulence and the impossibility of reform in the Gulf Arab state. In a joint statement to reporters on Wednesday, the country’s defense and interior ministers decried their inability to achieve “the reforms and development that the Kuwaiti people deserve” and a national political atmosphere “full of quarreling.” It was not immediately clear whether the prime minister would accept their resignations. Their defiant move threatens to plunge Kuwait’s government into further chaos at a time of deepening gridlock between the emir-appointed Cabinet and elected National Assembly.