More than a hundred ministers from members of the Gulf Cooperation Council are scheduled to hold a special meeting, Sunday, in Saudia Arabia to declare the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim group Hizbullah a terrorist organization, according to diplomatic sources, cited Friday-morning by the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai.The resolution cites Hizbullah's aid to the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. The meeting will be chaired by Foreign Minister Khaled Ben-Ahmad Al-Khalifa of Bahrain, which has told Read more [...]

Manama, May 31st (BNA) –Attention is turned today to the top match for the eighteenth final phase of the Bahraini Football League between Busaiteen the second and Al-Hidd the third today Friday, and Muharraq the leading, on goal basis, is playing with Riffa the fourth next Monday to determine the champion of the fifty-six edition. Muharraq and Busaiteen have equal points and they are leading at the top, Read more [...]

BAHRAIN'S former double World champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal will lead a trio of Bahrainis in the Prefontaine Classic tomorrow in Eugene, Oregon, in the US, reports PATRICK SALOMON. The meeting is an IAAF Diamond League competition, and it is set to feature some of the world's leading elite athletes. Maryam will be competing in the women's 1,500 metres alongside fellow-Bahraini Mimi Belete, while Shtiaye Mubarak Eshete will be running in the women's 5,000m. All three were a part of the preliminary Read more [...]

BAHRAIN Club were last night relegated to the second division despite battling back for a 4-4 draw with Al Hala in their do-or-die Bahrain Premier League match at the Muharraq Club Stadium in Arad. Bahrain Club headed into the contest in last place on the league standings and needed a win to at least qualify for the relegation play-offs. But with the stalemate, they remained two points adrift from their closest challengers and will now drop to the lower level. Al Hala will stay on in the top division, Read more [...]

THE Bahrain Football Association (BFA) has bid to host three major international competitions in the coming years. The kingdom has applied to stage the 2016 Fifa U-17 Women's World Cup, as well as the 2017 Fifa U-17 World Cup and the 2017 Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup. The bids were placed at the 63rd Fifa Congress, currently taking place in Mauritius, where the Bahrain delegation is being headed by BFA vice-president for technical affairs Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa. This was confirmed last Read more [...]

Bahrain will ask the six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to consider placing Hezbollah on their terrorism list at a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday. The Arab Gulf states have long been wary of Iranian influence in the region, and have accused Tehran of spying and meddling in internal politics. Iran’s activities in the GCC countries will also be on Sunday’s agenda, at Bahrain’s request, the Kuwaiti daily Alrai reported Thursday. The Read more [...]

Venice-May-30(BNA)Culture Minister Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al-Khalifa yesterday (Wednesday) inaugurated Bahrain's participation at the 55th Venice International Biennale. The global artistic event is being organised at the Pavilion At Arsenale in the iconic city of Venice, Italy. Shaikha Mai expressed her delight at the participation of Manama for the first time ever in Venice International Read more [...]

For decades, the people of Bahrain have been protesting the more than 200-year-old monarchy, which has ruled the small Persian Gulf Island of one million people since 1783. Tensions have long existed between the predominantly Sunni ruling elites, and the majority Shiite population, many of whom say they face systemic discrimination in employment, housing, education and government. Demonstrations that erupted in Bahrain during the Arab Spring two years ago, however, Read more [...]