Bahrain will add around 177 million dinars ($470 million) to its 2020 state budget in emergency spending on fighting the new coronavirus pandemic, state news agency BNA said on...

The UK singed off more than £75 million ($94 million) worth of spyware and wiretaps normally used to curtail freedoms to some of the most authoritarian regimes in the...

Bahrain’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has today upheld the death sentences against Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa over their involvement in a 2014 bomb attack that...

The British government will only intervene to “loudly remind Bahrain” of its human rights obligations if the death sentences on Mohamed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa are confirmed on...

Bahrain’s High Criminal Court has convicted five officials in one Bahraini bank and three Iranian banks in a major money laundering case. The court sentenced officials at Bahrain’s Future...

Health authorities on Friday in Oman, Bahrain, Sudan and Kuwait reported new infections and deaths from coronavirus, Anadolu Agency reports. The Omani Health Ministry said that within the past 24 hours,...

An investigation by the Military Times has revealed some members of the US Navy 5th Fleet, stationed in Bahrain, were involved in sex trafficking during their deployment. The report, entitled “Tinder, Sailor, Hooker,...

Bahrain must halt the imminent execution of two men who were sentenced to death based on confessions obtained through torture, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported rights groups saying yesterday. In a joint statement,...

Lebanese Public Prosecution has accused prominent Shia scholar Sayyed Ali Al Amin of meeting with Israeli officials in Bahrain, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported yesterday. The accusations also included attacks on the resistance,...

Iranian Parliament’s Speaker for International Affairs Hussein Amir Abdullahian on Saturday warned Saudi Arabia and Bahrain of normalising ties with Israel, saying: “Normalisation is playing with fire.” Fars News...

Sixty members of the European Parliament members have called on Bahrain to release prisoners of conscience and prominent political detainees because their lives are at risk from Covid-19. The...

Bahrain has released leading human rights activist Nabeel Rajab after a court agreed to pass an alternative sentence to the jail term he is currently serving, his lawyer said...

A Bahraini sprinter has been provisionally suspended for failing to make herself available for anti-doping tests, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. “The AIU has provisionally...

Coronavirus tally has risen in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in the past 24 hours, according to health authorities in both countries on Monday, reports Anadolu Agency. In Saudi Arabia,...

The authorities in Bahrain disrupted an online event on Saturday evening organised against the normalisation of ties with Israel, Arab48.com has reported. The event was organised by the Bahrain...

Bahrain has received $4.57 billion in urgent financial aid from its Gulf Arab neighbours as part of a support package approved in 2018, a government document revealed. According to...

Oil prices have hit zero. Yes, oil was “sold” this week with producers only asking buyers to pay for transporting it to its final destination. This is the worst...

The Bahraini government yesterday announced a 30 per cent reduction in spending by ministries and government agencies as a precautionary measure amid the coronavirus outbreak. The cabinet said in...

Bahrain has converted the multi-storey car park of a military hospital into a 130-bed intensive care unit for patients with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus,...

When jailed Bahraini activist Abdullah Habeeb Swar developed a bad cough that lasted several days, his 14 cell mates feared he might have contracted the coronavirus and would spread...

The Bahraini government announced yesterday that it will spend 215 million Bahraini dinars ($570 million) on the salaries of 100,000 employees working in the private sector for a period...

In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel’s global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major General Herzi Halevi, the head of...

Saudi Arabia extended its lockdown by suspending entry and exit from Jeddah on Sunday amid the coronavirus outbreak, while announcing four new deaths due to the pandemic, which has...

The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs has criticised a statement issued by Bahrain about Doha’s offer to help Bahraini citizens stranded in a Qatari airport due to the coronavirus...

Bahrain’s Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa returned to the kingdom after medical treatment in Germany, the state news agency BNA said on Friday. The agency said...

Moroccan media reported, on Wednesday, that Rabat has withdrawn its ambassador and consulates in the UAE, due to the Emirati authorities’ reluctance for a whole year to appoint an...

Financial markets were thrown into turmoil on Monday after Saudi Arabia slashed oil prices and set plans for a dramatic rise in crude production. The jolt added to concerns...

The Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix will go ahead this month without spectators due to the coronavirus crisis, a blow to the Gulf’s Arab states important tourism sector, Reuters reports. Bahrain,...

It has been a thousand days since Qatar was besieged by its brothers and partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), i.e. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain. There...

Qatar’s Minister of State for Defence Affairs Khalid Bin Mohammad Al Attiyah has said that the countries that have imposed a siege on the small Gulf state have betrayed Doha because...

Authorities in Kuwait announced on Wednesday 26 February that it would close schools for two weeks at the beginning of March, out of fear of the Coronavirus, after registering...

Iraq banned all public gatherings and barred entry by travellers from Kuwait and Bahrain, the health minister said on Wednesday, banning travel to or from a total of nine...