The number of Bahraini citizens stripped of their nationalities is rapidly approaching to 800, as verdicts issued by Bahraini courts increase, using one of the harshest forms of punishment.

Gulf Air announced on Wednesday (October 31, 2018) that it has laid off about 100 employees in the main branch only, confirming that its restructuring as it will eliminate certain job positions.

Dubai Mercantile Exchange, DME, has welcomed the latest Middle East oil producer to switch its crude oil pricing formula to include the DME Oman benchmark.

The First High Appeals Court upheld on Monday (October 29, 2018) verdicts issued by the first-instance court sentencing each of Mohammad Ibrahim Al Touk and Mohammad Radi Abdullah to death penalty and revoking their nationalities. It also upheld life term jail against each of Salah Saeed, Ibrahim Jaafar Hasan, Ali Abdulakrim Marzouq, Laith Khalil Al Touk, Ali Ahmad Ali, revoked citizenships of 4 of them and issued 10-year jail term against Sayed Mortada Al-Sanadi and Kassim Abdullah Ali and revoked their citizenships as well.

Israel Broadcasting Corporation "Makan" mentioned that "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's flight to the Sultanate of Oman passed the fields of Arab countries," explaining that "the plane crossed the airspace of both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain".

Deputy Chairman of Al-Hekma Retirees Society Saeed Al-Sammak said that there are about 55 thousand retirees in Bahrain before applying the optional retirement program.

General Directorate of Anti-Corruption and Economic and Electronic Security announced that the case of the misuse of social media account in Twitter was referred to the Public Prosecution after legal steps were taken.

The Complaints, Monitoring and Follow-up Committee at the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) said that it reviewed 7 complaints from female detainees in Isa Town Prison related to the right to physical and moral integrity, as well as the right for health.

Minister of Electricity and Water Affairs Abdulhussain Mirza said that electric vehicles will arrive to Bahrain and Gulf stats by 2022.

Shiite cleric Sayed Kamel Al-Hashimi was transferred to Jaw Central Prison to serve a 3-year jail term issued against him since 2016, news indicated.

The Gulf state of Oman on Thursday welcomed calls by the United States and Britain for a ceasefire in Yemen’s war, Oman’s state news agency reported on Thursday.

The remains of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi should be located and returned to his family for a burial as soon as possible, U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino told reporters on Thursday.

New York police were still trying to piece together on Wednesday a mystery over two young women whose bodies were discovered a week ago on the rocky Manhattan shore of the Hudson River, bound together with duct tape around their waists and ankles.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday backed a U.S. call for a cessation of hostilities in the Yemen war, a conflict that has killed at least 10,000 people and brought on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The Ministry of Interior claimed that it could foil the trafficking of six fugitives sentenced in terror-related cases through Samaheej coast.

The Bahraini security authorities arrested on Thursday (November 1, 2018) at least 6 citizens within less than 12 hours over political reasons.

The U.S. has released a dual American-Saudi citizen who was suspected of working with the Islamic State and detained by the U.S. military for more than a year without charge, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday.

The Trump administration on Wednesday reinforced its call for a ceasefire in Yemen and said the “climate is right” for the combatants to return to U.N.-backed peace talks to end the more than three-year war.

Armed forces and observers from eight Arab countries are converging on Egypt for exercises starting on Saturday, the Egyptian military said on Wednesday, in a move that could evolve into a regional pact to counter Iran’s influence.

Istanbul’s chief prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was suffocated in a premeditated killing as soon as he entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate four weeks ago, and his body was then dismembered and disposed of.