Local News: Bahrain 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

Bahrain News Editors

News Widget

Display the Bahrain news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

Bahrain News

News on Bahrain continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

59 min ago | AME Info

Batelco offers BlackBerry Q10 smartphone with 4G LTE packages

Batelco, Bahrain's leading telecommunications company, is now offering the new BlackBerry Q10 smartphone paired with an amazingly high speed 4G LTE packages.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Science, Computer Science

4 hrs ago | Reuters

Main Bahrain opposition group temporarily boycotts talks

Bahrain's main opposition group suspended its participation in reconciliation talks with the government for two weeks on Wednesday, blaming the slow pace of talks and the raid last week on a top Shi'ite Muslim cleric's home.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

4 hrs ago | AME Info

National Bank of Bahrain's ratings affirmed

Capital Intelligence , the international credit rating agency, announced that it has affirmed National Bank of Bahrain 's Long- and Short-Term Foreign Currency Ratings at 'BBB+' and 'A2', respectively, both on 'Negative' Outlook.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

8 hrs ago | Patch.com

Lakeville Navy Captain Deploys to Arabian Gulf for Mine Countermeasures Exercise

Editor's Note: The following story was written by Capt. Sterling Smith, U.S. Navy.

Comment?

Related Topix: US Military, US Navy, US News, World News, Middle East

12 hrs ago | NewsOn6 Tulsa

Bahrain claims Iranian drone found

A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Tax

12 hrs ago | WATE-TV Knoxville

Bahrain opposition group snubs crisis talks

This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Gay/Lesbian

Mon May 20, 2013

BBC News

Bahrain digs unveil one of oldest civilisations

The site in Bahrain, thought to be the location of the enigmatic Dilmun civilisation, was recently discussed at a conference in Manama, the Gulf nation's capital, organised by the UN's educational, scientific and cultural body .

Comment?

Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science

HawaiiNews

Report: Bahrain police search home of top cleric A main opposition...

The group Al Wefaq says security forces entered the home of Shiek Isa Qassim early Friday in Diraz, about 10 kilometers west of the capital, Manama.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

Directions Magazine

Ordnance Survey International signs a contract to create a 3D-enabled ...

The Kingdom of Bahrain has taken a step closer to developing a new 3D enabled spatial data model of the nation following a new partnership between Ordnance Survey International and the Survey and Land Registration Bureau .

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

Sun May 19, 2013

AME Info

Central Bank of Bahrain grant license to NextCare

The Central Bank of Bahrain has granted a license to NextCare Holding W.L.L. to establish NextCare Bahrain B.S.C. in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

Fri May 17, 2013

The Peninsula

Bahrain forces raid top Shia cl...

Senior Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim , speaks with Bahraini MP Hussain Al Mutagawi after Friday prayers at a mosque in the village of Diraz, west of the capital Manama.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

KLFY-TV Lafayette

Report: Bahrain police search home of top cleric

An Uzbekistan national living in Idaho has been arrested on federal charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Immigration Reform

Newkerala.com

UN award for MP cottage and village industry department

Bhopal, May 16 : The Madhya Pradesh Government's Cottage and Village Industry Department has bagged United Nations Public Service Award for year 2013.

Comment?

Related Topix: India, World News, Middle East

Thu May 16, 2013

News24

Bahraini jailed for flag 'insult'

A Bahraini protestor holds a national flag wearing a mask used by the Anonymous movement during a protest.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

AME Info

Record gaining streak halted in Manama

The Bahrain All-Share Index slipped 0.05% to 1,147.85 in a dull trading session on Thursday.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

AME Info

eGA participates in WSIS 2013 in Geneva

Mohammad Ali Al Qaed confirmed that the Kingdom of Bahrain, with the support and guidance of its government leadership, is striving to be a regional and global front-runner in creating a sustainable ICT knowledge society and is keen to meet its commitments in this respect.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

Emirates News Agency

UAE to participate in Bahrain Meetings of Ministers of Youth and...

WAM DUBAI, May 16th, 2013 -- The UAE is to participate in the meetings of Ministers of Youth and Sports and the Heads of Olympic Committees in the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf , hosted by the Kingdom of Bahrain from 15th - 20th of May.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News

Japan Herald

Deputy King Receives Japanese Delegation

Manama-May-15 His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Deputy of His Majesty the King, Crown Prince, met Mr.

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Bahrain Travel, Travel, Middle East Travel

KLFY-TV Lafayette

Bahrain demonstrator jailed for flag 'insult'

By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Federal health officials say they will propose Thursday to overhaul federally funded child care centers across the country, beefing up safety standards including... By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Federal health officials say they will propose Thursday to overhaul federally funded child care centers across the ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Agriculture, Science

NewsOn6 Tulsa

Bahrain demonstrator jailed for flag 'insult'

As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated... As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Middle East, World News, Agriculture, Science