Qatar has set up a committee to oversee its first legislative elections, due to be held in October, its interior ministry said on Sunday.

Detainee Abduljalil Al-Singace announced launching an open hunger strike and stopping receiving medication and making calls due to the humiliating and degrading treatment by officer Mohammad Yousef Fakhro, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights said.

Only 50 of around 600 undocumented Nepalis have registered for COVID-19 vaccination, a Nepali newspaper reported.

British troops are conducting secret operations in Yemen training Saudi forces, according to a report by the investigative website Declassified.

The minor criminal sentenced retired colonel Mohammad Al-Zayani to a two-year jail term with the execution of the sentence over charge of insulting the judiciary.

Bahrain will need more Gulf support in the medium term, financial analysts say, noting that Bahrain has received more than half of the planned support in the financial balance program which the government signed in partnership with three Gulf states.

On February 24, 2020, Bahrain announced the first Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection. The deadly virus that was first discovered in China claimed the lives of 352 people, as thousands contracted the disease.

Bahrain's ruling Al Khalifa family seems to be in an unenviable position after the big shifts in the Gulf region: End of Qatar's boycott and the ball of discord dramatically rolling between Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

British MPs have called on their government to suspend ‘secret' million-pound funding programs for the oil-rich Gulf, which they say could put the UK at risk of complicity in human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Italy has loosened restrictions on arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Reuters reported government sources saying yesterday, in a move aimed at easing diplomatic tensions with the two Gulf states.

The pandemic indicators recorded a real decline this time in Bahrain over the past two weeks, in which the mortality rate fell to 4 per day during the past week, and 10 per day during the week prior to that, after it was recording a rise in the first half of this month by 20 deaths during the first week.

Nigerian court adjourned the case of leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Zakzaky, until July 28 for ruling.

Bahrain's religious scholars launched Ashura season for 1443 Hijri under the slogan (Glory of Faith and Imam).

Al-Wefaq stressed that the political right is the main demand of the people of Bahrain, noting that the people have taken to the streets in the past years and are still protesting despite the prohibition and restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly for the sake of political demands.

Detained Shiite cleric Mirza Al-Mahrous started a hunger strike in Jaw Prison, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said via its Twitter account.

A Swiss court ordered the son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi's oil minister to pay $1.5 million in a corruption case on Friday, a decision that his lawyer said he may appeal.

Former MP Osama Al-Tamimi accused Bahraini authorities of injecting him with a toxic substance during his arrest, which led to him having a stroke.

A political prisoner said in a message he gave Bahrain Mirror that the prison authorities have permanently stopped running Coronavirus tests to cover up what has been happening, even though it is the ward in which the virus has spread the most, with more than 100 cases.

The trial of retired colonel Mohammad Al-Zayani over charge of insulting the judiciary started on Monday (June 28, 2021).

Footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi is suing the federal government for negligence and breaching its duty of care after he was wrongfully detained in Thailand, the Australian SBS website reported.