In January, a unit of Alcoa Inc., the biggest U.S. aluminum producer, pleaded guilty to foreign bribery charges brought by the U.S. Justice Department. Alcoa also settled claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission and agreed to pay a $384 million fine — the fifth-largest such penalty ever. The Alcoa subsidiary admitted to paying bribes to government officials in Bahrain for more than a decade to win contracts to sell alumina, a compound essential Read more [...]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy has taken over the command of the multinational naval counter-terrorism coalition force from the UK Royal Navy.The change of command of Combined Task Force-150 took place on Thursday at the United States Naval Forces Central Command Headquarters in Bahrain and Commodore Sajid Mahmood took over command of CTF-150 from Commodore Jeremy Blunden of the Royal Navy.The ceremony was attended by senior officers from foreign navies that are part of the coalition.Pakistan Read more [...]

BAHRAIN registered its 32nd sickle cell death yesterday '“ hours after health officials issued orders to treat patients suffering from the disease as 'high priority'. Bahraini Hassan Faisal Hamer, 28, died at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) due to complications, making the death toll in the last eight months equal to the total number of fatalities recorded in the whole of last year. Campaigners are expecting the figure to drastically increase, despite new measures being implemented by the Read more [...]