(UPDATES) KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait said Monday it would lift a visa ban on domestic workers from the Philippines after a yearlong suspension sparked by a row over the rights of employers and employees.

An interior ministry statement carried by the official KUNA news agency said the oil-rich Gulf state and Manila had reached an "agreement to resume the recruitment of domestic workers" after a "breakthrough" in talks.

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