Prominent Bahraini opposition leader and Secretary-General of Haq Movement, Hassan Mushaima, met with his family for the first time in nearly 20 months of deprivation of visits.

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Daqaq, a prominent Bahraini cleric in the Qom Hawza, called for taking a strong stance in boycotting the upcoming parliamentary and municipal elections.

The new fees for commercial registrars will be approved in the coming days and are expected to be implemented this month, local newspaper Akhbar Al Khaleej reported.

Chief Prosecutor of Ministries and Public Bodies said the Public Prosecution had launched an investigation into a notice by the Public Health Directorate concerning food poisoning of a number of students at a private school after eating food from the school canteen. Laboratory examination and test results of food samples showed contamination of the foodstuff.

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.

Prominent human rights defender Ibtisam Al-Saegh said that political detainee Amira Al-Qashaami refrained from family visits due to the glass barrier between her and her family, indicating that this is the fourth visit Amira refrains from.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) warned of scammers claiming to be employees in the TRA requesting personal information.

The New York Times newspaper pulled out as media sponsor of the "Future Investment Initiative" conference, hosted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as a response to his county's involvement in kidnapping the prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Sayed Abdullah Al-Ghuraifi, a prominent Bahraini Shiite cleric, said that the spiritual leader of Shia majority, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, needs to stay in London to finish his treatment.

A British academic is being held in solitary confinement without charge in the United Arab Emirates, five months after he was arrested while in the country conducting field research for his thesis, his wife said on Thursday.

Bahrain’s minor criminal court sentenced on Wednesday (October 10, 2018) Haj Majid Abdullah, known as "Haj Sumoud" to 6 months in jail over assembly charge in 2015, i.e. 3 year earlier.

Bahrain will receive up to $2 billion from its Gulf neighbors before the end of the year as the first installment of an aid package, and some funds have already arrived in state coffers, officials said on Thursday.

The Turkish government has informed U.S. officials that it obtained audio and video recordings that provide gruesome evidence to prove that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, reports the Washington Post. It's unclear whether the U.S. officials have viewed the footage or listened to the audio.

British billionaire Richard Branson said on Thursday that his Virgin Group would suspend its discussions with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund over a planned $1 billion investment in the group’s space ventures, in light of the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Media companies are pulling out of a Saudi investment conference as outrage grows over the journalist who went missing inside a Saudi consulate in Turkey earlier this month.

In a small school in Yemen’s Saada province, the absence of dozens of their classmates killed in an air strike on a bus weighed heavily on the young survivors as they returned to classes.

Legal advisor for Bahrain Center for Human Rights Ibrahim Serhan announced that “number of people convicted to death in Bahrain reached 22, 4 of whom are sentenced to final verdict, and 4 others have received commuted sentences to life in jail”.

A new suspect in case of establishing a group affiliated with “14 February Coalition” denied the charge of joining the group.

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' labour market nationalisation policies aim to provide more jobs for a rapidly growing population, but they are also likely to raise labour costs and hamper diversification, Moody's Investors Service said in a report this week.

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.