(Reuters) – A member of Kuwait’s ruling family, the grandson of a former emir, was gunned down at a dinner party and a relative was being questioned in the case, a security official said Sunday.
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“Authorities received a report Thursday evening that a crime had been committed and the victim was Sheikh Basel al-Sabah,” the security official told Reuters.
“The crime took place at the victim’s home in Messilah during a dinner party held for a number of sheikhs … he was killed after being hit by five bullets.”
The relative held for questioning was his uncle, Sheikh Faisal al-Sabah, he said.
The Kuwaiti al-Sabah family has ruled the Gulf Arab state for some 250 years, and its head has the last say in political matters in the world’s fourth largest oil exporter.
The official gave no word on a possible motive for the killing of Sheikh Basel, 52, who did not hold any government post. His uncle is an army intelligence officer.
The Kuwaiti prime minister has always been a member of the ruling family, and key portfolios such as defense, interior and foreign affairs are also held by al-Sabahs.
(Reporting by Diana Elias, editing by Richard Meares and Mark Trevelyan)
Katie Holmes’ ‘dinner treatment’ for people rude to her family
New Delhi, Mar 04 (ANI): Hollywood actress Katie Holmes has her own ways of dealing with people who pass rude comments on her family, for she has decided to invite them for a Dinner party.
The ‘Mad Money’ actress thinks that after meeting her family over a dinner party, people would apologize for their rude comments and would stop being rude to her lovely family, reports the China Daily.
“Sometimes I think I would say, ‘Why don’t you come over and have dinner?” she told America’s Glamour magazine.
Holmes revealed that some of the offensive comments left her aghast, when Suri her 2-year-old daughter was born.
” Katie admits she finds it hard when people spread rumors about Suri – shortly after she was born rumors circulated Katie’s pregnancy was an elaborate hoax and that Suri didn’t exist – and is determined to protect her daughter at all costs,” she said.
“Some of the stuff people said was such absolutely horrible things to say about a child. It was so uncalled for and so disgusting. Enough is enough. “Tom was supportive. We were changing diapers. He said, ‘I don’t want you to get upset.’ And I said, ‘Well, I am upset,” she added.
Holmes further revealed that she and her husband Tom Cruise together handled those comments.
“So we approached it together. But I definitely felt like – as a woman, as the mother of Suri – I want to handle this! My mom is very strong, and if anyone ever said anything about any of us, she would be, ‘Excuse me? That’s my family!” she said. (ANI)