Sunday, April 22, 2012 1:25 p.m. CDT By Andrew Hammond DUBAI (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel may have won the Bahrain Grand Prix, but there was no winner in the main event: a public relations battle between the ruling Al Khalifa […]
DUBAI | Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:16pm IST (Reuters) – Media freedom groups have accused Bahrain of using this weekend’s Formula One motor race as a propaganda exercise to improve its international image, saying it wants to stop journalists reporting on anti-government […]
By Andrew Hammond and Warda Al-Jawahiry MANAMA/DUBAI | Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:54am BST (Reuters) – Bahrain’s government and a jailed Shi’ite rights activist who is on hunger strike are playing a game of brinkmanship as his health deteriorates days before the […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:36am BST (Reuters) – Bahrain has arrested at least 60 Shi’ite protest leaders in recent days to try to prevent widescale unrest ahead of a controversial Formula One Grand Prix this week, activists […]
(Reuters) – Bahrain’s Sunni Muslim minority, fearful of Shi’ite political assertiveness, is spawning factions that rail against compromise with the island’s sectarian majority, while nursing their own grudges against its Sunni ruling family. Tweet
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Wed Apr 4, 2012 5:34pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain’s Sunni Muslim minority, fearful of Shi’ite political assertiveness, is spawning factions that rail against compromise with the island’s sectarian majority, while nursing their own grudges against its Sunni […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:05am EDT (Reuters) – A Bahraini Shi’ite Muslim teenager said three men who appeared to be plainclothes detectives abducted him last week, dragged him into a garage and beat him into unconsciousness after […]
By Andrew Hammond SITRA, Bahrain, March 24 | Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:02pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahraini police clashed with anti-government protesters on Saturday at a Shi’ite town where residents tried to demonstrate against the Gulf Arab state’s holding of a Formula […]
Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:38pm EDT By Andrew Hammond (Reuters) – Bahraini protesters battled with riot police near Manama on Friday after the funeral of a woman whose family said she died after tear gas entered her home twice in the past […]
By Andrew Hammond MANAMA | Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:30pm EDT (Reuters) – Bahrain is installing video cameras in police stations in an attempt to clean up its human rights image after the crushing of a pro-democracy uprising last year. But the […]