Palestinian officials have condemned the Israel-Bahrain normalisation deal announced by US President Donald Trump as another “stab in the back” by an Arab state. Friday’s accord normalising diplomatic ties between Israel and Bahrain comes one month after the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalise ties with Israel under a US-brokered[…]
Oman and Bahrain are stuck on the sidelines of the international debt markets after a record borrowing tally by Gulf Arab economies this month underscored a divide between the region’s strongest and weakest sovereigns. Facing external financing needs that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates at $5.5 billion this year, Oman[…]
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets this morning and gathered in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City to protest against the ongoing US-led Bahrain workshop. Another rally was held in Khan Younis, in the center of[…]
The British government announced on Tuesday that it is banning all new arms sales licenses to the Saudi Arabian-led military coalition fighting in the Yemen war following its defeat in a lengthy court battle. The prohibition covers Saudi Arabia as well as the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain and Kuwait,[…]
Bahrain is defending its decision to host a White House-engineered conference to address the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, saying its only objective is to support the “brotherly Palestinian people,” AP reports. The Palestinian Authority has rejected the economic conference planned for next month, saying any peace push that ignores the Palestinian people’s[…]
Friends, family and campaigners are celebrating Hakeem al-Araibi’s return home to the Australian city of Melbourne after Thailand freed the refugee footballer who had been held since November on an extradition request from Bahrain. After his flight touched down at Melbourne Airport on Tuesday afternoon, al-Araibi was met by hundreds[…]
Bahrainis voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election from which opposition groups have been barred, amid a crackdown on dissent in the small Sunni-led, Western-allied kingdom, reporters Reuters. Activists had called for a boycott of the vote, describing it as a “farce”. The government said the election is “democratic” and[…]
European Union ministers adopted a blacklist of 17 non-EU tax havens on Tuesday including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Tunisia after a year of tough negotiations. The Paradise Papers leak last month gave a new impetus to the plan, making public some of the intricate ways the world’s rich[…]
The Bahraini judiciary on Wednesday accused imprisoned leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, of communication with Qatar over regarding potential future hostile acts in the kingdom. The prosecution issued arrest warrants for two more people without specifying whether Salman would be tried on the case. Salman was arrested in 2014 and was[…]
The king of Bahrain has said his country will not take part in any summit or meeting attended by Qatar unless Doha “corrects its approach”, as a major diplomatic crisis in the Gulf nears its five-month mark. Bahrain, along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, cut ties[…]
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