{"id":43260,"date":"2019-09-21T12:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T04:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43260"},"modified":"2019-09-21T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T04:24:16","slug":"kuwait-to-raise-port-security-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43260","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Raises Security Alert Level At Oil And Commercial Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUWAIT, Sept 21 (NNN-KUNA) &#8211; Kuwait will raise its port security level of facilities, the Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA), said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was issued by Khaled Al-Roudhan, Kuwait&#8217;s minister of commerce and industry, and state minister for services, KPA said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ministerial decree, Kuwait will raise security level of all port facilities in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision aims to preserve the security of the country and its territory, as well as, ports, under conditions experienced by the region, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sept 14, bomb-laden drones hit two oil production plants of Saudi oil giant, Aramco, in Abqaiq and Khurais, knocking out half of its oil output and leading to an oil price hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the U.S. held Iran, the Houthi ally, accountable, although Iran has denied it.&#8211; NNN-KUNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUWAIT, Sept 21 (NNN-KUNA) &#8211; Kuwait will raise its port security level of facilities, the Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA), said on Friday. The decision was issued by Khaled Al-Roudhan, Kuwait&#8217;s minister of commerce and industry, and state minister for services, KPA said in a statement. According to the ministerial decree, Kuwait will raise security level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}