The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled the invalidity of the appeal, as it was presented after the legal time period, in a case of illegal assembly.

Standard and Poor's (S&P) said Kingdom of Bahrain outlook revised to negative on weakening external & fiscal positions‍​. It also affirmed its rating at "BB-/B".

Equatorial Guinea was for the first time elected to the UN Security Council on Friday during a vote that saw Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru and Poland also win seats at the top world table.

Iran is still sticking to the 2015 nuclear accord with major powers even as tensions rise between Tehran and US President Donald Trump, a UN atomic watchdog report showed yesterday.

The FBI is helping Qatar investigate the source of an alleged "hack" of state media which sparked diplomatic tensions in the Gulf, a source with knowledge of the probe said Friday.

Adam Rajab, the son of the prominent Bahraini human rights activist, says his father "is sacrificing himself to see a country which respects human rights", he said in an interview with Index on Censorship.

Assailants have hacked the Twitter account of Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa and posted hostile and insulting videos, the foreign ministry and local media reported on Saturday.

France said on Friday that increasing tension in Bahrain was preventing national reconciliation efforts in the Gulf Arab state after a decision to dissolve the main secular opposition group, which has alarmed human rights campaigners.

A U.N. human rights chief on Friday urged an investigation into a Bahraini security raid which killed five people last month and expressed concern at what he called a crackdown on dissent in the Gulf island kingdom.

Bahraini human rights defender of religious freedoms Sheikh Maytham al-Salman, believed that the Bahraini government is seeking the formation of an alternative political and civil society, obedient to it.

Bahrain's Fifth High Criminal Court sentenced a suspect to 6 years in prison and fined him 300 BD over acquiring weapon, stealing gold and money and using drugs, and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Labour Court bound Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, to pay 29796.126 BD for an Irish employee who was arbitrarily dismissed from work.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday called on the Government of Bahrain to promptly launch an independent, effective investigation into the deaths of five protesters during a security operation last week

The British “The Guardian” said that the British government may not publish the results of a long and detailed investigation into the foreign funding of extremist Islamic groups in Britain, as the decision behind not publishing the results is due to “sensitive information” mentioned in the investigation.

Moody's agency said it maintains negative outlook on Bahrain, which reflects the challenges posed by weakening economic growth, the sector's exposure to government debt and the authorities' lower capacity to support banks.

Diraz, hometown of spiritual leader of Shia majority Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, witnessed a mass protest on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, in which dozens of citizens took part in and held anti-regime slogans.

A number of families of “Diraz Raid” detainees said that they don’t know anything about their sons since over a week, as they only received one call from them on Thursday (May 26, 2017) after they were arrested during the raid carried out on Diraz and Sheikh Isa Qassim’s house on May 23.

At least two people were killed when a car exploded in Saudi Arabia's eastern city of Qatif on Thursday, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported.

A bomb blast at a market in a northern Yemeni town killed six civilians and injured 15 others on Thursday night, security officials said.

Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat hopes to take part in the initial public offering (IPO) of shares in Saudi state oil giant Aramco, the fund's CEO told Reuters, predicting additional opportunities from the kingdom's reform programme.