A protester found dead on a rooftop after clashes with police during the Bahrain Grand Prix at the weekend was apparently killed by birdshot rounds.
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The United States issued a sharp rebuke to Bahrain on Wednesday, after a day of crackdowns on demonstrators.
Bahrain arrested at least six opposition leaders on Thursday for communicating with foreign countries and inciting murder and destruction of property.
Bahraini forces backed by helicopters launched a crackdown on protesters on Wednesday, imposing a curfew and clearing hundreds from a camp.
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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.
Bahraini troops and armoured vehicles on Saturday rolled out of a Manama square that had been a base for anti-government protesters.
Bahraini security forces shot at protesters near Pearl Square on Friday and wounded at least 23, a former Shi’ite lawmaker said.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ralf Schumacher admitted in Manama on Friday that the lack of a third driver in Friday practice sessions could cost Toyota this season. Toyota finished fourth in last year’s constructors’ world championship, which disqualifies them from running a third car in Friday testing.
Ferrari suffered a weekend to forget in the stifling heat of the Bahrain desert on Sunday when they failed to score a point on the debut of their new F2005 car in the Bahrain Grand Prix. It was the first time they had failed to score a point in 33 races stretching back two years to April 2003.
World championship leader Fernando Alonso set a sizzling pace in the roasting desert heat in Manama on Saturday to claim the fastest time in first qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix. World champion Michael Schumacher prepared the new Ferrari for its race debut on Sunday by finishing third fastest.
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/ 15 November 2004
A Bahraini woman disguised as a male cleric tried to deliver a sermon during prayers last week, leading to a scuffle with worshippers and her subsequent arrest, the mosque imam said on Monday. The woman, bearded and bespectacled, made her way to the lecturn during Friday’s weekly prayers.
A nationwide power failure on Monday left Bahrainis snarled in rush-hour traffic and without air conditioning on a day when temperatures reached the mid-fifties degrees Celsius. The United States Navy switched to generator power. A spokesperson for the electricity department blamed a ”technical fault”.
Deep Fritz, billed as the most powerful chess computer, beat world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia on Tuesday to draw level in a million-dollar challenge here with just two games to go, organisers said.