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King Mohammed VI has reiterated firm support to the legitimate struggle of the Palestinian people to establish their independent, sovereign state on June 4, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on the basis of the two-state solution. In Read more
Roman Catholic Church in Bahrain held Sunday the first mass in the Gulf country, few days after inauguration of largest cathedral in the region. Father Saji Thomas led the Mass in “Our Lady of Arabia” church, which is located 20 Read more
UAE Tuesday conferred the Order of Zayed, the country’s highest civilian award on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) in recognition of strong historical ties and bilateral relations between the two countries, reports say. The facto Saudi ruler arrived Read more
Manama-based alternative investment products firm, Investcrop, has said it acquired five industrial units in Scotland for a $14.6 million investment as part of its expansion strategy across Europe. The entity said it bought 200,000-sq-ft industrial units comprising several sectors including Read more
Manama-based Arcapita Group has pumped money into NuYu, a Saudi leading chain of women-only boutique gyms, amid rising of the sector following recent reforms in Saudi Arabia in favor of women. The investment, estimated at $67 million, will help multiply Read more
France has moved to calm Bahrain after calls in France demanded that Paris grants an honorary French citizenship to Bahraini opposition figure Nabeel Rajab who has been handed a five-year prison sentence, Bahraini sources told Reuters. Ties between France and Read more
Bahraini Security authorities Wednesday held at Manama international airport a Danish lawmaker who was seeking to meet Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a Bahraini activist sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for conspiring against the state, AFP reports. Lars Aslan Rasmussen, a social Read more
The Emirati city of Dubai has topped US-based consulting firm Mercer’s survey for Quality of Life in the Middle East as it ranks 74th globally over 231 cities studied. Mercer is a top global human resource agency and is consulted Read more
Demonstrators in shia-dominated Bahrain locked horns Wednesday with security forces as they marked the seventh anniversary of the 2011 uprising that was clamped down by the ruling Sunni family. Dozens demonstrators took to the streets in capital Manama. They chanted Read more
Bahraini authorities held Iran responsible for a plot to bomb a pipeline connecting the country to Saudi Arabia, after the arrest of a four-member terrorist cell with ties to Iran. The Bahraini Interior Ministry said two of the group members Read more