Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa issued decree (No. 49/ 2018) transferring the directors and heads of financial resource departments across ministries to the Ministry of Finance, with immediate effect.

Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa issued Decree No. 47/2018 reorganizing the Ministry of Finance, with immediate effect.

Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa issued decree (No. 48/2018) appointing Mrs. Nada Ahmed Mahmoud Mustafa as Assistant Undersecretary for Joint Financial Services at the Ministry of Finance, with immediate effect.

Germany's government has left the door open to exporting arms to Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Yemen conflict, the news weekly Der Spiegel reported Wednesday, seemingly in spite of a deal within the country's ruling coalition.

Jamal Khashoggi believed he was safe in Turkey. Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist and newspaper editor, had lived in exile in Washington for more than a year, writing a column for the Washington Post in which he regularly criticized his country's crackdown on dissent, its war in Yemen and sanctions imposed on Qatar.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday the United States is ready to help in any way in the investigation of the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Head of the Capital Governorate Prosecution Office, Nawaf Al-Awadhi, said that the Public Prosecution received a report regarding the collapse of a building located in the Salmaniya area.

Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi officially announced boycotting the upcoming Parliamentary and municipal elections.

The deputy secretary-general of Al-Wefaq Society, Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, said that the decision to impose the value added tax (VAT) is considered a “heinous crime”.

Turkish media began publishing photos of the Saudi security team, which the Turkish authorities suspect of being responsible for the abduction of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The follow-up team of the treatment of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim said that he will undergo surgery on his second eye on Thursday, October 11, 2018, in a hospital in the British capital, London.

The Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism reached an agreement regarding the trade fees.

Chief Executive of Bahrain Economic Development Board Khalid Al-Rumaihi said that the size of Saudi Arabia investments in Bahrain reached about 20 billion Saudi Riyal (2.3 billion BD out of the total investments), according to numbers published by the ministry of industry.

The First High Criminal Court in Bahrain adjourned the trial of 171 defendants, accused of involvement in an open sit-in outside the home of the spiritual leader of the Shiite majority in Bahrain, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, in what has become known as the "Diraz Raid."

The authorities renewed on Tuesday (October 9, 2018) detention of number of citizens for 15 days pending investigation over charge of performing prayers on the tenth night of Muharram in downtown Manama.

Bahrain's main opposition group called Tuesday for a boycott of November parliamentary elections after its members were banned from running.

Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Germany has returned to Berlin, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Tuesday, almost a year he left over comments by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel about the political crisis in Lebanon.

Turkey said on Tuesday that it would search Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished last week, and close ally Britain called on Riyadh to provide “urgent answers” over his disappearance.

Saudi Aramco and Bahrain’s BAPCO have announced the commissioning of the AB-4 pipeline, a new phase of Saudi-Bahrain crude oil pipeline, the Saudi company said on Tuesday.

Bahrain does not plan to issue new U.S. dollar-denominated bonds this year, a central bank official told investors on Tuesday, after the kingdom secured a $10 billion aid package from Gulf neighbours last week, one source said.