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/ 21 February 2011
The season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix, due to be staged on March 13, was cancelled on Monday due to the political unrest in the country.
Protests and crackdowns follow successful uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
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/ 21 February 2011
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone will rely on Bahrain’s crown prince to decide whether the season-opening grand prix will have to be cancelled.
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/ 20 February 2011
Bahrain’s Sunni Muslim ruling family came under increased pressure to open in-depth negotiations with the Shi’ite-led opposition on Sunday.
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/ 20 February 2011
Thousands of anti-government protesters camped overnight in a Manama square that has come to symbolise their cause.
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/ 19 February 2011
Protesters in Bahrain won a victory on Saturday, Libyan security forces opened fire to disperse mourners and a new party was approved in Egypt.
Bahraini troops and armoured vehicles on Saturday rolled out of a Manama square that had been a base for anti-government protesters.
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/ 19 February 2011
The Bahraini opposition on Saturday rejected an offer of dialogue from the authorities, saying it would join talks only after the Cabinet quits.
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/ 19 February 2011
Bahrain’s king has offered a national dialogue "with all parties" in a conciliatory move to resolve a crisis that has killed six people.
Bahraini security forces shot at protesters near Pearl Square on Friday and wounded at least 23, a former Shi’ite lawmaker said.
The Middle East boiled with anger as protestors trying to topple more of the region’s rulers staged fresh mass demonstrations after Friday prayers
Several thousand Shi’ites turned out in Bahrain on Friday to bury three of those killed in a crackdown ordered by the state’s Sunni ruling family.
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/ 17 February 2011
The GP2 Asia Series race in Bahrain was cancelled on Thursday amid anti-government protests that have left four dead overnight.
Police in the Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain attacked demonstrators camped out in the capital on Thursday, killing three.
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/ 17 February 2011
Riot police stormed through a Manama square early on Thursday firing rubber bullets and tear gas in a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.
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/ 17 February 2011
Two people were killed in Bahrain as riot police unleashed rubber bullets and tear gas to drive panicked protesters out of a Manama square.
Thousands of Shi’ite demonstrators, inspired by popular revolts that toppled rulers in Tunisia and Egypt, gathered in Bahrain’s capital on Wednesday.
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/ 15 February 2011
A man injured when Bahraini police dispersed crowds of anti-government protesters in a village east of Manama has died of his wounds.
Sparkling fruity fizz tasted as sweet as champagne for Fernando Alonso on Sunday after the Spaniard celebrated a triumphant Ferrari debut.
Germany’s Sebastian Vettel put returning compatriot Michael Schumacher in the shade on Saturday with pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
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/ 18 November 2009
Bahrain’s Olympic 1 500 metres champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal for doping at the Beijing 2008 Games.
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/ 19 December 2008
Thousands of Bahrainis marched on the streets of Manama on Friday to demand the lifting of the Israeli siege on Gaza.
Brazilian Felipe Massa stormed to victory on Sunday for his second successive victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix and answered his mounting bank of critics as his Ferrari team celebrated a comfortable one-two with Kimi Raikkonen finishing second.
Leading German car manufacturers Mercedes-Benz and BMW issued a statement on Thursday slamming the alleged recent lurid behaviour of world motorsport governing body (FIA) president Max Mosley as ”disgraceful”. Both companies, with teams set to take part in this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, distanced themselves from the revelations about Mosley’s private life.
Defending world champion Kimi Raikkonen wants to erase from his memory bad results at one of his bogey tracks on Sunday by winning this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The Ferrari-driving Finn, who roared back to life in this year’s title race by winning the Malaysian Grand Prix ten days ago, has never won on the sand-blown circuit built in a desert.
The United States navy has sent a third aircraft carrier to its Fifth Fleet area of operations, which includes Gulf waters close to Iran, the navy said on Tuesday. ”Enterprise [aircraft carrier] provides navy power to counter the assertive, disruptive and coercive behaviour of some countries,” a US Navy statement said.
Brazil’s Felipe Massa driving a Ferrari won the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday to record his third career victory. Englishman Lewis Hamilton was second in a McClaren — becoming the first driver to finish on the podium in his first three Grand Prix — and Kimi Raikkonen of Finland in another Ferrari was third.
Felipe Massa took the pole position on Saturday for the Bahrain Grand Prix, leading the field in qualifying for the fourth time in the last five Formula One races. It was the fifth career pole, and second straight, for the Ferrari driver. He ended the 2006 season with two pole positions, but only won the Brazilian GP.
Sixteen Indians were killed and another seven were injured in a blaze in a three-storey building in Bahrain’s capital Manama on Sunday, officials said. A Bahraini Interior Ministry statement carried on BNA news agency said the 16 died from smoke inhalation and another seven people were injured when the fire broke out at dawn.
At least 48 people died when a leisure boat with at least 150 passengers on board sank off the coast of Bahrain late on Thursday as the coast guard and the United States Navy worked frantically to rescue survivors. There were 10 South Africans on board. ”The number of survivors is 63, of which 12 were wounded, and the number of bodies that we have pulled out so far is 48,” said Colonel Yussef al-Ghatim.
Fernando Alonso warned on Sunday that he is in no mood to give up his world driver’s crown without a fight by beating Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Alonso made use of a perfect strategy from his Renault team to win by 1,2 seconds from pole-sitter Schumacher.
Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher showed his return to form when he stormed to a Ferrari 1-2 to take pole position for Sunday’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Schumacher, who had a disappointing 2005 season, equalled the late Ayrton Senna’s record of 65 pole positions on Saturday.