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An Canadian who was arrested in Bahrain last Wednesday because of convictions connected to the Arab Spring protests could be released from custody Monday, according to his fiancée says.

Demonstrators chanted “Down with (King) Hamad” during protests in several towns and villages. According to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), four people died on January 25 as a result of the violent crackdown on the anti-regime...

While much of the attention at Bahrain International Airshow was focused on Gulf Air, the kingdom’s second national carrier, Bahrain Air, also made a splash at the three-day event.

Police in Bahrain on Sunday fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-government slogans after the funeral of an elderly man who witnesses say died from tear gas inhalation.

Bahrain is recruiting a former police chief from the American city of Miami to help reform law enforcement, says the country’s interior ministry.

Bahraini medical staff accused of trying to overthrow the government of the Gulf state earlier this year, and who had hoped charges against them might now be dropped, faced new accusations in a court hearing.

Bahraini authorities discovered “a terror cell” and have arrested five people for allegedly planning attacks against government and diplomatic buildings as well as unidentified individuals, officials said Saturday.

A billionaire businessman accused of bribing officials in Bahrain, including a prominent member of the country’s royal family, was granted bail Monday by a British court in exchange for a 10 million pounds ($16 million) security bond.

Twenty Bahraini medics handed long jail terms for their role during anti-regime protests launched an appeal on Sunday, authorities and a defendant said. The doctors, nurses, and paramedics were initially tried and convicted in the military-run...

Officials in violence-wracked Bahrain began work Monday on proposed political reforms that include boosting the powers of parliament, but the steps were dismissed by an opposition leader as too little after more than eight months of clashes...