Kuwait’s prosecutors have asked Dubai to release $500 million (£385.2 million) in funds belonging to a Kuwaiti private equity fund that were frozen as part of a money laundering investigation, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

The Belgium-based SWIFT financial messaging service will be disconnecting some Iranian banks this weekend, said SWIFT chief executive Gottfried Leibbrandt at an event in Paris on Friday.

Turkey has been granted a waiver of around 25 percent on U.S. oil sanctions against Iran, Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Friday, amounting to around three million tonnes of oil annually.

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) lost 321.7 million BD of foreign assets ($848.7 million) within the first nine months of 2018.

Bahrain started expanding Bapco’s refinery, a project that will boost the capacity of the oil refinery to 360,000 barrels per day from the current 267,000 barrels.

Sunni Endowments in Bahrain announced hosting an extremist Salafist cleric Othman Al-Khamis to deliver a lecture in Al-Adliya Mosque on Saturday (November 10, 2018).

Israeli Economy Minister Eli Cohen was invited by Bahrain to participate in its “Startup Nations Ministerial” conference, Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

Bahrain-based Gulf Aluminum Rolling Mill Company (Garmco) said its US subsidiary has been granted tariff exemptions to facilitate smooth imports from the kingdom.

The Islamic Organizations in Britain called on the Bahraini authorities to release Sheikh Ali Salman, following the life term sentence issued against him.

The High Criminal Appeals Court communed a 3-year jail term issued again a suspect convicted of hiding fugitive wanted in politically-motivated case to 1-year jail term only.

Chief Prosecutor and Head of the Public Prosecution-formed Election Crime Investigation Committee, Muhanna Al Shayji, said that the committee received a notice stating that vandals targeting billboards of a candidate running in parliamentary elections were arrested.

Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa received US Department of State (US-DOS) Counterterrorism Coordinator, Ambassador Nathan Sales.

Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) is taking part in the "Arab Shield 1" joint drill which is held in Egypt till November 16.

Bahrain’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the terrorist attack that took place in the city of Mosul, Republic of Iraq, claiming the lives of a number of people and injuring others.

Israel and Gulf Arab states should cooperate on aviation security and other civilian areas such as transportation, commercial aviation and tourism, Israel’s intelligence minister told Reuters on Thursday after a visit to Oman.

United Nations Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths is aiming to convene the country’s warring parties for peace talks by the end of the year, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday, after last week saying he would try to bring them together by the end of the month.

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday during a visit to Turkey, the Turkish presidency said on Thursday.

Five Bahraini human rights organizations expressed their deep concern at the information they received about the intention of the German authorities to deport Bahraini citizen Ahmad Nawwar from their territories to Bahrain after examining his asylum application and protection.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society considered all the sacrifices and the targeting of its men, entity and cadres to be cheap compared to the interest of the nation and all the citizens.

The United States on Wednesday voiced concern over ally Bahrain's sentencing of the head of the country's Shiite opposition movement, although it stopped short of threatening countermeasures.