The budget of projects in the draft general budget decreased to 400 million dinars for the years 2019-2020 after it was at 660 million dinars in the past two years.

The High Civilian Court ordered former MP Ahmad Qarata to pay 110,000 BD for a company that owns a gasoline station; the costs of gasoline a transportation company owned by Qarata received over two years and didn't pay for. It also ordered him to pay 2% delay interest from the date of filing the lawsuit until he pays the total sum as well as the attorney's fees.

The High Appeals Criminal Court upheld 3 and 10-year jail term against 5 suspects accused, along with a sixth suspect, of blasting a gas cylinder in front of National Bank of Bahrain in Sitra in January 2017. All the suspects, expect the fifth, appealed the verdict.

The High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeal of a Bahrain sentenced to 5 years in jail in a political case.

A refugee footballer who was detained in Thailand and threatened with extradition to Bahrain said he feels sure "no one can follow me now," after becoming an Australian citizen on Tuesday.

When Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa became the country’s Emir on March 6, 1999, I was lingering behind bars in Jaw prison at that time. I had spent 5 years in jail during my first years of youth. Today, after 20 years, I have spent about 5 other years of the life term issued against me but I am in my 40s now.

The Bahraini King’s son Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa announced what he described as a “serious desire to devote himself to the presidency of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports in the coming period”.

I wasn’t analyzing the data this way back then. I was eager to avoid what I considered the “sin of participation”. I prepared a list of the most important points that justify boycotting based on the articles of the 2002 Constitution and placed it at the entrance of Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque.

The High Administrative Court rejected lawsuit of the former chief executive of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in which he called for abolishing the decision of the Board of directors to remove him and the subsequent effects of the decision, explaining in his claim that he was the executive chief of Bahrain Chamber of Commerce under a contract signed in 26/12/2016.

A report aired by the Dutch (1V) Channel said that some opposition parties in Amsterdam began to move to uncover the circumstances surrounding Bahraini detainee stripped of his nationality Ali Al-Shuwaikh, who was handed over by the Dutch authorities to Bahrain in October 2018.

Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society issued a statement in which it talked about number of the living developments of Bahrainis, following policies and decisions taken by the state which contributed to the marginalization of the Bahraini citizen and making him inconsiderable in his homeland.

The production process of the first shale oil well in Bahrain will begin next April or May, said a Tatweer Petroleum official.

Bahrain's Interior Ministry Undersecretary for Citizenship, Passports and Residence Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa said the number of applications for work residence permits in Bahrain is increasingly growing.

Bahrain plans to commission its expanded oil refinery by early 2023, allowing it to sell and trade more petroleum products in the Gulf region and Asia, the chief executive of state-owned oil company Bapco said.

Bahraini Parliament speaker Fawzia Zainal said that the government referred the public budget draft for 2019-2020 to the Parliament.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sharply criticised U.S. military intervention in the Middle East on Monday as he began a first official visit to Iraq, aimed at shoring up Tehran's influence and expanding trade ties.

The trial of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of nearly a dozen prominent Saudi Arabian women’s rights activists detained since last year, will begin on Wednesday, her family said on Twitter.

Iranian naval forces intervened to repel pirates who attacked an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden, state television reported on Friday.

President of Bahrain Medical Association (BMA) Ghada Al-Qasim said that the quitting of a large number of medical and nursing staff working in the national hospitals, including Al-Salmaniya medical complex in particular, will certainly leave an impact and gap.

Minister of Electricity and Water Abdulhussain Mirza said that there are accounts of ministries and non-sovereign authorities that have not yet been included in the Ministry of Finance system for the direct deduction of invoices (FMIS), and the amounts owed in the community amounted to two million BD.