A large fire which broke out on Wednesday evening at a market in the emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates caused no injuries or deaths and had been brought under control, the head of Ajman police said.

The Health Ministry announced the death of 80-year-old Bahraini male, a registered active case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) suffering from underlying and chronic health problems.

The ministry revealed that it has registered 16 active cases of the Coronavirus among a single Bahraini family, including parents, siblings and infants, who were exposed to the virus by one of their family members (case no. 2930 under the contact tracing mechanism).

Bahrain announced 6 new coronavirus cases, bringing up the total number to 23. Bahrain has recorded the highest number of infected cases with respect to the population.

A Kuwaiti court issued a seven-year jail sentence against former health minister Ali Al-Obeidi and issued the same sentence against a former ministry undersecretary, a current senior official and an agent of a foreign company.

Bahraini signer Adel Mahmoud said that the festival program of National Day, which falls on December 16, doesn't include any Bahraini singer. "Bahrain celebrations for National Day without any Bahraini singer".

Bahrain called on its citizens on Thursday not to travel to Iraq for the time being due to security tensions, state news agency reported.

Seven of the 23 crew members of the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero that was seized by Iran in July reached Dubai on Thursday after Tehran agreed to their release, a Russian official said.

What is new about the statements of Sawsan Al-Shaer, writer in “Al-Watan” newspaper— the mouthpiece of the Bahraini Royal Court— and her calls for the displacement of Bahrain's Shia? There’s nothing new. They are a mere reiteration of what her “Master”, Royal Court Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, literally wrote in 1999 at the beginning of his provocative poem in which he responded to one of his cousins, who is a poet as well. He spoke of deporting Shiites to Hawar, Janan and Noon Islands and make them food for fish.

When Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met entrepreneur Viktor Prokopenya in March 2017, their discussion was scheduled to last for an hour but went on for three times that long.

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $1.48 billion contract to build the THAAD missile defense system for Saudi Arabia, bringing the total value of the deal to $5.36 billion, the Pentagon said on Friday.

ran said it had seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday but denied Washington’s assertion that the U.S. Navy had downed an Iranian drone nearby this week, as tensions in the Gulf region rose again.

Iran intends to preserve the nuclear deal with major powers if all parties fulfill their obligations under it, its ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear body told a German newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.

Directorate of the Animal Health and Control Department of the Ministry of Works, Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning said that the total number of cattle and live sheep provided for the period of Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr amounted to 43 thousand sheep and cows.

Palestinian officials will not attend a U.S.-led conference in Bahrain next month designed to draw investment to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a Palestinian cabinet minister said on Monday.

Special Investigation Unit Acting Chief Khaled Al-Hazaa said that the unit affirmed that two officers and 10 policemen bet inmates in Jaw Central Prison.

The offensive group that has launched a campaign to silence and intimidate Bahrainis is not the issue here, since the tweeters are Bahrainis, the country is theirs, the unemployed are their own family members and the deducted money is theirs. However, the issue is that an ambassador of a gulf state has supported an inflammatory campaign against them and join the group urges to “oppress them”, “imprison them”, “torture them” and “fire them”.

While the Bahraini government continues to disregard and underestimate the growing unemployment crisis of Bahrainis, the scene became even worse when they suspended the support program offered by Tamkeen Fund aimed at the employment of Bahrainis through direct support of their wages, which was already put on hold for review and amendment prior to the eruption of the crisis (since January 15, 2019).

Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would spend 86 billion riyals ($23 billion) to boost the quality of life in the capital Riyadh, increasing green space and recreational areas and installing 1,000 works of art across the city.

In the mid-1990s, a young woman named Dhawiya Al-Sayed Alawi from Bilad Al-Qadim passed away, leaving behind twins, Hassan and Hussein, who were only one year old at the time.