Russia vetoed Monday a UN draft resolution presented by Britain and strongly backed by the United States that would have pressured Iran over its failure to block supplies of missiles to Yemen's Huthi rebels.

Saudi Arabia has replaced some of its top military officers in a series of personnel changes that elevate a younger generation bring a woman into a senior government job and tighten Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's grip on power.

The Fifth High Criminal Appeals Court upheld sentencing 2 appellants to 3 years in prison and third appellant to 3 years and bound them, along with 7 convicts, to pay 4530 BD to the victims whose cars were set to fire, after one of them ran for municipal elections in 2014, after the cassation court overturned the appealed sentence.

Omani authorities handed over citizen Hussein Shehab from Diraz to Bahrain last Saturday.

Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), owner of one of the world’s largest aluminum smelters, will raise by the end of this year’s first quarter the final debt amount needed to fund its Line 6 expansion project, a company official told Reuters.

Head of the National Unity Gathering, Abdullatif Al-Mahmood, commented on a new call for a new dialogue: “This is a talk that no longer has a place. Dialogues are over.”

The Bahraini Interior Ministry announced late on Sunday (February 25, 2018) the exhumation of a body on the coast of Juffair near the Ahmed Al-Fateh Mosque.

Bahrain’s Commerce Minister and Gulf Air Board of Directors’ Chairman, Zayed Al-Zayani, said 39 new airplanes would start operating in April.

The Court of Cassation today upheld the appealed sentences in the case of deliberate murder and foreign intelligence connections, the Chief of Terror Crime Prosecution, Advocate General Ahmed Al-Hammadi, said.

Parliamentary Committee on Public Utilities and the Environment recommended the approval of a bill banning exporting sea sand extracted from Bahrain abroad.

The Fourth High Criminal Court issued, in absentia, one year jail term and 500 BD fine against a university student studying in London over charge of bringing an air gun and 500 ammunitions with him on a plane. The court ordered the suspension of sentence for three years starting from the date of final judgment and confiscation of seized items.

An Egyptian site called “Wadh’ef” published advertisements a few weeks ago for employing teachers in Bahrain of various specialties.

The Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for International Affairs, Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said that the European Union’s issuance of statements that do not reflect the reality of the situation.

Information stated that the authorities arrested media men Mohammad Al-Shorouqi and Abdullah Al-Maloud after accusing them of “defaming people via social media outlets”.

Deputy head of the European-Bahraini Organization for Human Rights (EBOHR) Fatima Al-Halwachi said that detained activist Khalil Al-Halwachi (who is sentenced to 10 years in prison) suffers from clot symptoms.

The United States said on Friday it will open its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem in May, a move from Tel Aviv that reverses decades of U.S. policy and is bound to trouble U.S. allies who have already objected.

SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights launched today, the 23rd of February 2018 "I am Bahraini” network in both Arabic and English versions. The website is allocated for supporting and defending Bahrainis whose citizenships were arbitrarily revoked due to political and identity backgrounds.

Men and women swayed to music at Saudi Arabia’s first-ever jazz festival on Friday, the second of a three-day outdoor event that showcases the Kingdom’s recent efforts of shedding its conservative image.

The White House said on Friday (February 23, 2018) that US president Donald Trump will host Gulf leaders amid efforts to try to resolve a dispute between the Gulf neighbors.

Fourth high criminal court in Bahrain sentenced Bahraini youth to three years in prison and his brother to one year after convicting them of manufacturing a fake bomb.