DUBAI | Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:00pm BST (Reuters) – Protesters pelted police with petrol bombs and stones in clashes that broke out in Bahrain on Tuesday night at the funeral for a teenage demonstrator killed last week in a new bout […]
DUBAI | Sat Aug 18, 2012 7:40pm BST (Reuters) – A 16-year-old protester was killed after what opposition activists in Bahrain said was a “brutal attack” by security forces, but which the Bahrain government described as a defensive response to a petrol […]
By Andrew Hammond and Rania El Gamal DUBAI | Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:16pm EDT (Reuters) – A prominent Bahraini opposition activist was sentenced to three years in jail on Thursday for anti-government protests, his lawyer said, a verdict Washington said was […]
Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:44am EDT * Verdict delayed until Sept. 4 as street protests simmer * U.S. wants detainees freed to stabilise ally against Iran * King says Bahrain has survived a year of “foreign plots” By Andrew Hammond DUBAI, Aug […]
DUBAI | Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:30am EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain’s crown prince has ordered police to exercise restraint in dealing with protesters and to avoid sectarian discrimination, as opposition activists accuse the Gulf Arab state of cracking down on pro-democracy protests. […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Thu Jul 5, 2012 3:51am EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain’s ambitious economic reform program is still on track, the head of the country’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat said this week, despite a year of turmoil in the Gulf […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:55pm IST (Reuters) – Bahrain has said it is banning opposition rallies in order to prevent disruption to traffic and street violence that are sabotaging efforts to end unrest in the Gulf Arab […]
DUBAI | Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:49pm EDT (Reuters) – A Bahrain court has dissolved a Shi’ite Islamist political party which has played a role in the Gulf Arab state’s wave of unrest, on the grounds that it answers to a religious […]
DUBAI | Mon Jul 9, 2012 8:34am EDT (Reuters) – A prominent Bahraini protest leader, Nabeel Rajab, was sentenced to three months in prison over a tweet against the prime minister which the court said insulted Bahrainis, Rajab’s lawyer and a colleague […]
By Samia Nakhoul MANAMA | Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:00am EDT (Reuters) – A Bahrain court on Thursday reduced sentences on nine medics for their role in last year’s pro-democracy uprising and acquitted nine others, but rights groups said the case was […]