By Andrew Hammond and Angus McDowall DUBAI/RIYADH, May 13 (Reuters) – Gulf Arab leaders meeting on Monday are expected to announce closer political union, starting with two or three countries including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, a government minister in Bahrain said. Saudi […]
May 08, 2012|Andrew Hammond | Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain vowed on Tuesday to crack down harder on anti-government protests as a leading opposition figure said the government had put a stop to talks on addressing the political grievances that fuelled last […]
By Andrew Hammond and Rania El Gamal | Reuters – Sun, May 6, 2012 DUBAI, May 6 (Reuters) – Bahrain has arrested a prominent human rights activist and critic of the country’s ruling family, the Interior Ministry and an activist said on Sunday, as […]
DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters) – Bahrain’s king ratified constitutional reforms on Thursday that the government hopes will help end a year of protests, but the main opposition party denounced them as inadequate and said the struggle for democratic reforms would continue. Bahrain, […]
Wed May 2, 2012 3:33pm EDT * King Hamad: ‘Wilful foreign media campaign to distort facts’ * Solve any such problem by letting in foreign media -watchdog * Bahraini monarch expresses commitment to media freedom By Andrew Hammond DUBAI, May 2 (Reuters) […]
The number of people who said don’t go to Iran was really astounding, even more so now that I’ve been there and back. The country is a pleasant surprise in many respects. It is very clean, very green, very organised. People are […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:16am BST (Reuters) – Wary of Iran and regional protest movements, Gulf Arab states are pushing ahead with plans for a political union that would involve joint foreign and defense policies, the Saudi […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:06am EDT (Reuters) – Hardliners in Bahrain’s Saudi-backed Sunni Muslim ruling family may dig in their heels after a Formula One Grand Prix debacle that spotlighted a frustrated pro-democracy uprising instead of projecting […]
(Reuters) – Hardliners in Bahrain’s Saudi-backed Sunni Muslim ruling family may dig in their heels after a Formula One Grand Prix debacle that spotlighted a frustrated pro-democracy uprising instead of projecting an image of stability. Tweet
By Warda Al-Jawahiry and Hamad Mohammed MANAMA | Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:41pm EDT (Reuters) – A Bahraini protester found dead on a rooftop after clashes with police during the Formula One Grand Prix at the weekend was apparently killed by birdshot […]