Alam Al Yawm (Arabic: عالم اليوم; The World of Today) was a newspaper published in Kuwait.
[1] In April 2014, the paper and Al Watan were temporarily closed down for two weeks by the Kuwaiti government due to the publication of a videotape allegedly showing former senior officials plotting a coup in Kuwait.
[6][10] The Kuwaiti Ministry of Information cited the reason for closure as "losing some of the terms and conditions for obtaining a licence.
[12][13] However, the paper was close to the Kuwaiti opposition group, Popular Bloc.
[12] Upon this event both the writer and Alam Al Yawm were fined 3,000 Kuwaiti dinars on 7 March 2010.