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Game of brinkmanship in Bahrain over hunger strike
MANAMA/DUBAI: Bahrain's government and a jailed Shia rights activist who is on hunger strike are playing a game of brinkmanship as his health deteriorates days before the Formula One Grand Prix, a showcase event for the Gulf state as its grapples (...)

19 - 04 - 2012
Bahrain police install cameras to curb abuse
MANAMA: Bahrain is installing video cameras in police stations to try to clean up its human rights image after crushing a pro-democracy uprising last year, but activists say off-camera abuse continues in other locations. At Al-Hoora station in (...)

22 - 03 - 2012
Clashes flare in Bahrain on Arab Spring anniversary
DUBAI: Shia Muslims clashed with riot police in villages across Bahrain on Thursday, the anniversary of a government crackdown last year on a pro-democracy uprising in the Gulf Arab state. Witnesses said youths and police faced off in Shia areas (...)

16 - 03 - 2012
Mass pro-democracy protest rocks Bahrain
MANAMA: Tens of thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated outside the capital Manama on Friday to demand urgent political reforms, a year after the Gulf Arab state crushed an uprising, witnesses said. The protestors began marching along a highway near (...)

09 - 03 - 2012
Bahrain tries protesters in civilian courts
CAIRO (Reuters) – Bahrain said on Sunday almost all the verdicts issued by military courts against people involved in a pro-democracy protest movement crushed by the Gulf Arab state last year were now being handled by civilian courts. The (...)

26 - 02 - 2012
Bahrain king dismisses opposition as disunited
MAMAMA: Bahrain's King Hamad dismissed the country's opposition movement as disunited and said the threat of Iran had compelled him to call in foreign troops to crush last year's uprising. "In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the (...)

12 - 02 - 2012
Violence in Bahrain escalates ahead of Feb. 14 anniversary
MANAMA: The funeral march for Mohammed Yaacoub had barely ended last week when police and protesters faced off in the town of Sitra, an impoverished district of Bahrain that has borne the brunt of a year of unrest. Teenagers using scarves to mask (...)

08 - 02 - 2012
Bahrain opposition launch week-long rally for reform
MANAMA: Bahraini opposition parties, launching a week-long 'sit-in' for political reforms at a mass rally, swore on Sunday to take their campaign to the centre of last year's democracy protest in the capital Manama. "This is a dress rehearsal for (...)

05 - 02 - 2012
Tense Bahrain under spotlight again over uprisings
MANAMA: The academic who investigated abuses during Bahrain's crackdown on pro-democracy protests last year returns this week to a Gulf Arab country still racked by violence, to assess how far the government has followed through on reforms he (...)

02 - 02 - 2012
UAE to liberalize trade in 12 commodities, eyes prices
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates cabinet announced on Sunday it would liberalize trade in 12 commodities, saying this would help market stability, state news agency WAM reported. "The 12 items that are being liberalized include livestock and dairy (...)

23 - 01 - 2012
Who will be the Republican presidential nominee to face Obama?
The 2012 US election season begins on January 3 when Iowa becomes the first state to hold contests to decide who will be the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in November. While Barack Obama will be re-nominated as the Democratic (...)

01 - 01 - 2012
Bahrain convicts bodybuilder, two sportsmen
DUBAI: A military court in Bahrain has sentenced a bodybuilder and two sportsmen to one year in prison for taking part in pro-democracy protests that the Gulf Arab state crushed earlier this year, a lawyer said. The three, all members of (...)

04 - 12 - 2011
Bahrain opposition unites to decry 'police state'
DUBAI: In a defiant show of unity, Bahrain opposition parties have jointly denounced the Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab island as a police state and demanded a transition to a constitutional monarchy. Five groups, including the main Shia party Wefaq and (...)

13 - 10 - 2011
Al-Qaeda's Zawahri calls on Algerians to revolt
DUBAI: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri urged Algerians in a video released on Islamist websites on Wednesday to follow the example of Libyans and revolt against their leaders. He also attacked military rulers in his native Egypt for maintaining (...)

12 - 10 - 2011
Bahrain upholds life sentences for protest leaders
MANAMA: A Bahrain military court upheld life sentences on Wednesday against Shiite opposition leaders for organizing protests earlier this year that threatened the Sunni monarchy's grip on power, the state news agency said. The national security (...)

28 - 09 - 2011
Bahrain holds vote, Shia enclave protests
MANAMA: Bahrain's main opposition boycotted elections on Saturday held to fill parliamentary seats vacated by its members during a crackdown on a mostly Muslim Shi'ite protest movement in the Sunni-ruled monarchy. The low turnout by Shia voters (...)

25 - 09 - 2011
ANALYSIS: Egyptians fear embassy attack may set back reform
CAIRO: An attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo last week could set back political gains since Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising this year, as the ruling army council takes measures to tighten security around the (...)

13 - 09 - 2011
Arabs angry over Syria crackdown but governments silent
DUBAI: Arabs reacted strongly on Monday to the deaths of dozens of Syrians in Hama at the hands of the Syrian army but most Arab governments kept silent, apparently fearing the power of protest movements that have spread throughout the region this (...)

02 - 08 - 2011
Bahrain hopes for normalcy with martial law lifted
MANAMA: Bahrain will lift a state of emergency next week that was imposed when the government suppressed a democracy protest movement in March with the help of Saudi and other Gulf Arab forces. After two months of negative publicity around the (...)

25 - 05 - 2011
Gulf Arab rulers tense over Egypt's policy shifts
DUBAI: At a recent conference in Abu Dhabi, a confidant of the emirate's crown prince vented his frustration over the downfall of a major ally who Gulf Arab rulers once thought was as entrenched in power as they are. "How could someone do this to (...)

28 - 04 - 2011
Egypt antiquities boss under fire over thefts, jobs
CAIRO: Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass defended himself on Wednesday from a wave of criticism over looting at the Egyptian Museum during the revolution last month and accusations of corruption in his ministry. Hawass initially played down (...)

17 - 02 - 2011
Egyptians regain sense of pride in damaged nation
CAIRO: For a country with 5,000 years of history, Egypt's fall into a deep social, economic and political malaise during the three decades of Hosni Mubarak's rule had a particularly bitter sting to it. Egyptians like to call their country "umm (...)

13 - 02 - 2011
Mubarak likely to quit on Thursday night: officials
CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looked likely to step down on Thursday in response to more than two weeks of nationwide protests against his 30-year rule. Asked if Mubarak would step down, an Egyptian official told Reuters: "Most (...)

11 - 02 - 2011
Culture minister quits Mubarak's new cabinet
CAIRO: A minister has resigned from the Egyptian cabinet formed by President Hosni Mubarak in response to an uprising against his rule, a family member said on Wednesday. Culture Minister Gaber Asfour resigned for health reasons, a member of his (...)

10 - 02 - 2011
Egypt has plan in place for power transfer: VP
CAIRO: Egypt has a plan and timetable for the peaceful transfer of power, the vice president said on Tuesday, adding that the government will not pursue protesters who have been demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down now. "The president (...)

08 - 02 - 2011
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