• The Kuwait City skyline is seen through the haze of a sand storm in Shuwaikh, Kuwait City, in 2009. On Wednesday, Kuwait gave the Philippines ambassador a one-week deadline to leave the small, oil-rich Gulf Arab nation over a growing diplomatic dispute regarding the abuse of Filipina housemaids and workers in the country. | AP
    The Kuwait City skyline is seen through the haze of a sand storm in Shuwaikh, Kuwait City, in 2009. On Wednesday, Kuwait gave the Philippines ambassador a one-week deadline to leave the small, oil-rich Gulf Arab nation over a growing diplomatic dispute regarding the abuse of Filipina housemaids and workers in the country. | AP

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KUWAIT CITY – Kuwait has ordered the ambassador from the Philippines to leave within a week and recalled its own envoy for consultations after embassy staff tried to “rescue” Filipino domestic workers amid reports of abuse.

The decision Wednesday was the latest episode in a three-month conflict sparked by reports that several Filipinos had been driven to suicide by the abuse of Kuwaiti employers.

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