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Inmates at a Bahrain prison are on a hunger strike over conditions there, activists and authorities said Wednesday, the latest sign of simmering unrest in the island kingdom a decade after Arab ...
Bahrain has sentenced 13 prisoners to an additional three years over a sit-in held in a detention facility in 2021 that prison authorities say was violent. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and ...
The Bahrain Light Rail Network (Arabic: شبكىة السكة الحديدية البحرين), also known as Bahrain Metro (Arabic: مترو البحرين), is a proposed public transport project, which will serve Manama and its greater metropolitan region, in the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
2 August – Bahrain Beat Korea in the Opening Game of the 2023 IHF Men’s Youth World Championship. [2] 25 August – Massive protests going on in Manama in solidarity with political prisoners who are on hunger strike. [3] 30 August – Sherine Hussain of Bahrain sets a world sub-junior record with a remarkable deadlift of 156.5 kilograms. [4]
The Gulf Daily News was the first daily English newspaper to be published in Bahrain. It was founded in March 1978 by the Dar Akhbar Al Khaleej, which is also the publisher. [3] The group also publishes Akhbar Al Khaleej, an Arabic daily. [3] Until the publishing of Bahrain Tribune, the paper was Bahrain's only English newspaper. The paper was ...
On election day hackers took down government websites, including the elections, parliamentary and state-news websites. A group calling itself "al-Touafan" ("the Flood") claimed responsibility for at least some of the attacks, saying they were "due to the persecution carried out by the Bahraini authorities, and in implementation of the popular ...
1 January – Bahrain authorizes the emergency use of Pfizer's anti-viral oral drug Paxlovid for adults over the age of 18 years. [ 1 ] 12 February – Bahraini authorities confirm that an Israeli military officer will be stationed inside the country as part of an upcoming international coalition consisting of 34 countries.
The latest new business venture between the two countries is a new 6,700 sq. m. Thai shopping centre in Manama, set to launch in the first half of 2019 and described as an opportunity for Thai small and medium-sized enterprises to reach a huge potential market of Saudi shoppers, [12] said to be the biggest economic centre in Bahrain, with ...