Egypt is standing by the list of demands it and three Gulf Arab countries made of Qatar and will keep sanctions against Doha in place, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told his Kuwaiti counterpart on Monday.

A local Bahraini newspaper reported that the average cost of the pilgrimage to Mecca (haj) is around BD 2400 per person.

A source in the meteorology department said that Bahrain recorded yesterday (Thursday, July 13, 2017) the highest level of temperature in the country since the beginning of summer with 47.4 degree, a local newspaper reported.

Qatar made a series of secret agreements with its Gulf neighbors in 2013 and 2014 barring support for opposition and hostile groups in those nations, as well as in Egypt and Yemen.

The Indian “The Times of India” newspaper said that Indian youths, who were killed while fighting for the Islamic State in Syria, were the members of an extreme Salafi group in Bahrain before they joined the outfit (IS).

Qatar announced plans for a steep rise in Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) production capacity on Tuesday that suggested it was ready for a protracted dispute with Gulf neighbors, but Doha said it was doing all it could to reach agreement.

Why the need to make such efforts to desperately “expose” Qatar, when the BICI report had already addressed in 2011 the fact that Qatar attempted to play the role of the mediator in the political crisis in Bahrain.

Editor in Chief of Qatar’s Al-Arab newspaper, Abdullah al-Azba, said that Bahrain “does not have its independent decision”, saying, ““The most honest way to describe the island of Bahrain is the country of retweet.”

Simon Henderson, the Baker fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Institute's Gulf and Energy Policy Program, said that Qatar's father-emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, is still the driver of Qatari diplomacy.

Trade restrictions imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are justified by national security, Bahrain's representative told a World Trade Organization meeting on Friday.

Dubai's Majid Al Futtaim , the Middle East operator of French retailer Carrefour, has acquired 26 Geant hypermarket stores in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait from BMA International.

A Qatari human rights group is hiring a Swiss law firm to help seek compensation for citizens affected by sanctions imposed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

The United Nations Committee against Torture published in May its concluding observations on Bahrain. Its report found that torture remains “widespread” in Bahrain, where a “climate of impunity” protects the perpetrators. CAT urgently called for the release of Nabeel Rajab, indicating that numerous human rights activists and journalists have been unlawfully deprived of their liberty and subjected to torture as a form of retribution for their work.

Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority said that revenues of Bahrain hotels reached 3.2 Million BD during Al-Fitr Eid.

In a speech delivered in front of the Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad during his visit to the Royal Guard Forces, Nasser bin Hamad, son of Bahrain’s King, accused Qatar, without naming it, of “hypocrisy and plotting”.

It has been reported that the father of primary student, whose grades were changed to become the first on the honor’s list, is the daughter of an official in the quality assurance authority, which monitors the MoE, and its affiliated schools.

The IBT website said that Qatari soldiers would no longer be a part of the anti-terrorism fight in Bahrain. The Bahrain government has ordered Qatari troops serving with the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (Navcent) to leave the country within two days.

Information reported that the Bahraini government tried to impose restrictions on the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights delegation that was supposed to visit Bahrain last week.

Bahrain rejected in a statement the report issued by the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Human Rights situation in Bahrain.

The Bahraini security authorities arrested on Monday (June 19, 2017) Shiite cleric Sheikh Hussein, son of Sheikh Ali Al-Sitri, after interrogating him in Hamad Town police station at Roundabout 17.