Sixty members of the European Parliament members sent a letter to the King of Bahrain demanding the release of political detainees in Bahrain. Meanwhile, a British MP signed a petition warning about the imminent execution of two activists.

McLaren are considering selling a minority stake in their once-dominant Formula One team to raise funds to help the company weather the COVID-19 crisis, Sky News reported on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia will end a nationwide curfew and lift restrictions on businesses from Sunday morning after three months of lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, state news agency SPA quoted a source in the interior ministry as saying on Saturday.

Abdulhakim Al-Shammari, Chairman of Commercial Market Committee and Board Member of BCCI, stressed the need to open the bridge linking Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to reduce the losses the Bahraini economy has suffered as a result of this closure, which occurred due to measures to combat the Coronavirus epidemic.

Bahrain's holding of U.S. bonds fell by 17% in April 2020, on a monthly basis.

An Omani national was fatally shot near the border with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on June 16, the Omani Embassy in Abu Dhabi reported.

The Military Times website said that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigated numerous sailors for crimes involving sex trafficking and prostitutes in Bahrain in recent years. Navy prosecutors have struggled at times to win criminal convictions in court.

State oil giant Saudi Aramco started laying off hundreds of employees this month, two sources familiar with the matter said, as global energy companies reduce their workforces in response to the coronavirus crisis.

The Egyptian authorities decided to impose entry visa fees on GCC nationals as of today. This move comes at a time Cairo is experiencing an economic crisis, as a result of the new Coronavirus outbreak.

Over the past two months, Bahrain has imported 10,850,653 million dinars (approximately $70.149,018 million) worth of surgical masks and face masks to prevent dust and odors, according to the Information and E-Government Authority, among the top 50 non-oil commodities imported.

Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab said that the political detainees who were released under the Alternative Penalties Law have made success in implementing the alternative action, indicating that those returned to prison are criminal prisoners who have violated the law.

Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, has issued a Resolution to form the Board of Trustees of ECSSR, under the chairmanship of Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, with membership of Khalid bin Ahmed bin Muhammad Al Khalifa, advisor to the King of Bahrain for Diplomatic Affairs.

Gulf bourse markets rebounded on Tuesday, tracking the impact of global equities, supported by the increasing oil prices due to record cuts in supplies and increase on oil demands.

Aya Majzoub, Bahrain Researcher at Human Rights Watch, said "the Bahraini Government should release people who should not have been held in detention in the first place."

Bahrain announced on Tuesday (June 16, 2020) the resumption of sports activity and local sports leagues from mid-July, without the spectators. The decision was taken today during the government executive committee chaired by Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.

The Lies Refutation Observatory at the Anadolu Agency ridiculed the campaigns of Gulf tweeters who called for boycotting Turkish goods. The observatory said that a Turkish military company is stepping up its activities to sell military equipment especially to Bahrain.

The government has agreed to pump an additional BD177 million ($470.7 million) into this year's budget to deal with the emergency expenditures incurred by the country as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

In his first comment after upholding the death sentence against him, political detainee Zuheir Jassim Ibrahim said that he didn't commit the crime over which he was tried and stressed that he has never practiced violence.

In his second comment following his release on June 9, 2020, Nabeel Rajab said via his Instagram page that he is saddened by the suffering of the prisoners. Nabeel also promised to write a story from his experience in prison when he has opportunity to do so.

Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway have rolled out some of the most invasive COVID-19 contact tracing apps around the world, putting the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of people at risk, an Amnesty International investigation reveals.