Al-Muqawim Center for Culture and Media said that Sheikh Isa Qassim underwent a diagnostic cardiac catheterization at one of the hospitals in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Global ratings agency Standard and Poors (S&P) revised its outlook on Bahrain to positive from stable following the implementation of the government's budget-deficit-reducing measures and other reforms.

Kuwait's deputy foreign minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said that Bahrain has informed his country that it will take action against a Bahraini journalist who offended his country.

"December 1 marks Bahraini Women's Day, as called for by the Supreme Council for Women, which is chaired by the King of Bahrain's wife, Sabika bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa. This day is celebrated by government institutions based on official instructions," the Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said.

The country is experiencing a difficult period which kicked off in 2011. Loyalists who opposed the pro-democracy popular movement thought that the failure of the movement would revive their long-term life opportunities, but the period of rapid recovery has rapidly passed, and has been replaced by another policy that favors foreigners after the regime naturalized as many people as it could.

In Bahrain Mirror File (Two Decades in Darkness), former MP Matar Matar said “What is the value of any constitutional document if the UAE is the one that controls the national airport, the US controls the fifth fleet, while Saudi Arabia supplies Bahrain with oil for refining and controls the arrival of more than 80% of Bahrain's visitors through the causeway?"

The Public Utilities and Environment Committee upheld its previous decision to reject a draft law aimed at exempting citizens from paying the property registration fee for the first time, which amounts to 2% of the property value.

The High Criminal Court sentenced two suspects, in presence, to 3 years in jail over charge of burning a couch in Al-Ma'amir.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued 3 royal decrees restructuring Ministry of Information Affairs, Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications and National Oil and Gas Authority.

Qatar’s foreign minister has made an unannounced visit to Riyadh, two sources told Reuters, amid signs that a 2-1/2-year rift among U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states could soon subside.

A group of Houthi prisoners released by Saudi Arabia arrived in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, Reuters witnesses said, in a step that may encourage efforts to end a nearly five-year war in the country.

Saudi Arabia has released three people swept up in the latest wave of arrests in a crackdown on free expression, London-based Saudi rights group ALQST said on Thursday, but several more remain in detention.

Fawzia Zainal, Speaker of the Council of Representatives, confirmed that the council rented two cars for the first and second vice presidents to "complete their official work", noting that the car allowance is still being paid to them.

Minister of Electricity and Water Affairs Wael Al-Mubarak said that 59,664 Bahraini participants benefited from the decision to review this year's bills for citizens in the primary resident for June, July and August.

The First High Criminal Court adjourned the ruling in case of death convicts Hussein Mousa and Mohammad Ramadan until December 25.

The First High Criminal Court issued life sentence against 5 defendants and 5-year jail term against the sixth one in a political case.

Al-Naba newspaper, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Bahrain, announced that it will temporarily stop publishing. Meanwhile, Chairman of board of directors said that this decision is due "restructuring".

The High Appeals Couurt upheld the imprisonment of an employee in the General Directorate of Traffic who seized money in his capacity as supervisor of the Vehicle Licensing Department. The court accepted the appeals in form, rejected it in substance and upheld the appealed verdict.

The Executive Director of the National Health Regulatory Authority, Mariam Al-Jalahma, said that drug utilization reviews (DUR) for medications will be activated and is to be applied among all health services providers, in a way that medicines are dispensed from online prescription pharmacies.

The Minister of Housing and Chairman of the Tender Board, Bassim Al-Hamer, yesterday presided over the Tender Board's weekly meeting, which discussed matters related to various government tenders. The Opening Committee of the Tender Board opened eight bids related to four tenders for four purchasing authorities.