Kuwait's Information Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Mubarak al-Sabah visits the Registration Center in Shuwaikh, on the first day of registration for candidates contesting in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Kuwait, October 31, 2012. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait will hold a snap parliamentary election on July 25, state news agency KUNA said, after the Gulf Arab state's top court dissolved the chamber on a technicality earlier this week in a case which has aggravated political tensions.
The election will be the sixth since 2006 in the major oil producer and U.S. ally, where political upheaval has stalled infrastructure development and held up economic reforms.
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