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Kuwait opposition seeks gains in new parliament (AP)

In this Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 photo, a Kuwaiti woman gestures during an election rally at candidate Mohammed Al Sagr's campaign head quarters in Sulaibikhat, Kuwait. Almost 300 liberal, Islamist and independent hopefuls are running in Thursday's snap elections called after parliament was dissolved for the fourth time in less than six years. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)AP - Kuwait is heading into elections in much the same combative style that gripped the last parliament: Opposition groups pressing for even a bigger voice against the nation's Western-allied rulers and domestic tensions running so high that one group torched the campaign tent of a rival.


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