Riot police in Bahrain have killed a teenager while firing shotgun pellets during clashes with protesters following a demonstration on Friday.
Activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, facing a life sentence on charges of seeking to overthrow Bahrain’s rulers, will end a 110-day hunger strike.
F1 champion Sebastian Vettel returned to the top of the standings with Red Bull’s first victory of the season in a lively Bahrain Grand Prix.
The Bahrain Grand Prix is poised to take off on Sunday despite calls for more protests and attempts to block roads to the race track.
The Force India team is considering pulling out of a Bahrain Grand Prix practice session after a night of clashes between police and protesters.
Bahrain has detained doctors and other medics as part of a crackdown on mainly Shi’ite pro-democracy protesters, the opposition said on Tuesday.
Did you hear it? The clamour from Western governments for democracy in Saudi Arabia? The howls of outrage from the White House?
Bahrain arrested at least six opposition leaders on Thursday for communicating with foreign countries and inciting murder and destruction of property.
UN rights chief Navi Pillay has slammed security forces’ takeover of Bahrain hospitals and medical facilities as a "violation of international law".
Helicopters flew overhead and riot police fired teargas as they moved into Bahrain’s Pearl Square early on Wednesday.
Thousands of anti-government protesters cut off Bahrain’s financial centre, while others from its main university clashed with police on Sunday.
Bahrain’s Sunni Muslim ruling family came under increased pressure to open in-depth negotiations with the Shi’ite-led opposition on Sunday.
The Bahraini opposition on Saturday rejected an offer of dialogue from the authorities, saying it would join talks only after the Cabinet quits.
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.
A man injured when Bahraini police dispersed crowds of anti-government protesters in a village east of Manama has died of his wounds.
