{"id":7538,"date":"2017-06-06T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2017-06-06T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T10:00:47","slug":"qatar-says-kuwait-trying-to-mediate-diplomatic-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/06\/06\/qatar-says-kuwait-trying-to-mediate-diplomatic-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar says Kuwait trying to mediate diplomatic rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait is trying to mediate a diplomatic crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties to Qatar and moved to isolate the energy-rich, travel-hub nation from the outside world, Qatar&#8217;s foreign minister said early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf region since the 1991 U.S.-led war against Iraq pits several nations against Qatar, which is home to some 10,000 American troops and a major U.S. military base. Airlines suspended flights and residents nervous about the peninsula&#8217;s lone land border closing cleaned out grocery store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Doha-based satellite news network Al-Jazeera, Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said Kuwait&#8217;s ruler had asked Qatar&#8217;s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to hold off on giving a speech about the crisis late Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He received a call from the emir of Kuwait asking him to postpone it in order to give time to solve the crisis,&#8221; Sheikh Mohammed said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait is trying to mediate a diplomatic crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties to Qatar and moved to isolate the energy-rich, travel-hub nation from the outside world, Qatar&rsquo;s foreign minister said early Tuesday. &nbsp; The biggest diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf region since the 1991 U.S.-led war against Iraq pits several nations against Qatar, which is home to some 10,000 American troops and a major U.S. military base. Airlines suspended flights and residents nervous about the peninsula&rsquo;s lone land border closing cleaned out grocery store shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/7540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}