THE Pepsi International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cricket League (WCL) Division Six Championship started Sunday in Jersey with Nigeria hoping to be among the two countries to gain promotion to Division Five of the league.  Hosts, Jersey, Nigeria, Bahrain, Vanuatu, Argentina and Kuwait are the teams battling for the two promotion slots in the championship.  Looking forward to a successful competition, Nigeria’s Manager, Olisa Egwuatu, said in fast bowler, Akolade Saheed and batsman, Oladotun Read more [...]

Manama, Jul.12 (BNA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has established additional social media network twitter accounts amounting to 22 active accounts. The main objective of this initiative is to streamline communication between the diplomatic missions of the Kingdom of Bahrain abroad and citizens. The main dropdown list of the Ministry’s website includes "Bahrain's Missions Abroad" for easy access. Bahrain Diplomatic mission’s Read more [...]

MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain says authorities have arrested three suspects in connection with a bombing last week outside a mosque near the royal residences in the Gulf kingdom. The blast pointed to a widening campaign by more militant factions in the opposition. Bahrain has experienced over two years of unrest stemming from the Shiite majority's demands for a greater political role in the Sunni-ruled island nation, which is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. Bahrain's Interior Ministry said Sunday Read more [...]

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Assailants attacked the home of a Bahraini member of parliament with petrol bombs on Sunday for the second time in a week, the state news agency BNA said, the latest in a series of assaults on public officials and security personnel in the kingdom. The most recent attack on the home of Abbas Isa al-Madi, chairman of parliament's Services Committee, follows one on July 15 in which was no one was hurt. Pictures published by BNA showed fire damage to walls surrounding the house. Read more [...]

PARLIAMENT yesterday condemned a car bomb attack on worshippers at a mosque and called on the government to strip bombers and terror masterminds of their citizenship. Bahrain's parliamentary blocs issued a joint statement urging the Interior Ministry to do whatever necessary to bring the terrorists to justice following the blast targeting Shaikh Isa bin Salman Mosque in West Riffa on Wednesday, which sent shockwaves across the nation. The MPs called for the law on terror to be enforced on the perpetrators Read more [...]

BAHRAIN's Albert Rop set a new national record in the men's 5,000 metres late Friday night at the Herculis meeting in Monaco. The competition was an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League event and it featured many of the world's leading elite athletes out on the track and in the field. Rop registered a time of 12 minutes 51.96 seconds as he finished as runner-up to Kenyan Edwin Cheruiyot Soi. The victor had only marginally beaten Rop to the finish, clocking a Read more [...]

BAHRAINI authorities are attempting to eradicate a pest that threatens to wipe out the country's palm trees. The pilot project aims to exterminate the red palm weevil, which is a small beetle that burrows into palm trees, lays its eggs and decimates them by hollowing out the trunk. It is thought to have been brought into the Middle East from Pakistan, and was first reported in Bahrain in 1995. However, officials now fear the problem has escalated and could have a devastating effect on the agriculture Read more [...]