A coalition of non-governmental human rights groups from Europe, the U.S. and Canada called on UN member states to oppose the election of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Eritrea, the Philippines and Somalia, which were deemed "unqualified" due to their human rights records, Scoop news website reported.

President of Customs in Bahrain Ahmed bin Hamad Al Khalifa said that the implementation of the first entry points of trucks through King Fahd Causeway will be on first of January 2019.

Chief Executive of Bahrain Economic Development Board Khalid Al-Rumaihi said that the size of Saudi Arabia investments in Bahrain reached about 20 billion Saudi Riyal (2.3 billion BD out of the total investments), according to numbers published by the ministry of industry.

A source close to the government said that “the budget of the ministries in Bahrain is in a very precarious situation, as there are no financial allocations to implement the projects approved in the financial budgets.

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates will soon sign an agreement to provide up to $10 billion of financial support to Bahrain, Kuwait’s Al Rai newspaper said on Thursday, quoting an unnamed Gulf diplomatic source.

Bahrain announced comprehensive package of reforms that will secure Kingdom’s long-term fiscal stability, stating that it signed a USD 10 billion financial support agreement with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait.

A Financial Support Agreement worth USD 10 billion has been signed between the government of the Kingdom of Bahrain and Saudi, Emirati and Kuwaiti governments.

Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, said that Qatar had incubated terrorist groups and allowed suicide bombings to be justified, noting that it had contributed to destabilizing the region.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Development said that it welcomes about 7,000 to 8,000 new jobseekers every year, who are graduates of various fields, hiring them in private sector jobs.

Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei said in tweet “I just received a phone call from my mother-in-Law Hajer Mansoor, she sounded very depressed, probably the worst call we ever had with her.”

Amnesty International urged Bahrain’s authorities to take immediate steps to ensure all those in state custody can access adequate health care and condemned in a statement issued on Friday “medical negligence” and “intentional ill-treatment” in Bahrain’s prisons.

Bahrain’s Gulf Arab allies are weighing plans for a five-year aid package to steady its finances and protect a currency peg seen as vital to regional economic stability, Bloomberg reported according to people with knowledge of the matter.

In its annual report on counterterrorism and countering violent extremism in the world in 2017, the US State Department considered repression the main reason for the increase in terrorism in Bahrain.

Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) published a report on the Civic Space in the Middle East, warning that time is running out as civic space is closing rapidly in the region.

The British “The Times” newspaper said that millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money is being spent in secret on bodies linked to serious human rights abuses in wealthy Gulf states after the government blocked the release of basic information about a shadowy fund administered by the Foreign Office.

Simon Coveney, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, said that he is very concerned about reports concerning health deterioration of political prisoners in Bahrain, including Hasan Mushaima.

The Morning Star newspaper mentioned that a British handcuff manufacturer in Birmingham is being accused of "fuelling oppression" in Bahrain over allegations that its products are being used to restrain political prisoners at a notorious Bahraini jail.

The security authorities arrested each of Mohammad Bu Hamid and Abdullah Bu Rashid, the organizers in Imam Al-Rida obsequy in Al-Malikiya village, and ordered their arrest for 15 days pending investigations over charge of “inciting hatred against the regime”, according to activists.

British Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake is leading a movement in the UK Parliament calling for the adoption of a motion for ending degrading treatment against political prisoners in Bahrain.

The Global Financial Centres Index showed that Bahrain dropped eight places to 59th out of a total of 110 centres analysed.