Bahrainis vote on Saturday in a parliamentary election from which opposition groups have been barred, in a crackdown on dissent in the small Sunni-led, Western-allied kingdom.

A citizen may not have the ability to change a corrupt reality in his country, but he has the ability to reject. Change begins by refusing to surrender to what you are going through: the refusal to continue in a bad to an even worse situation.

The POMED website published a study by Human Rights First’s Brian Dooley, entitled “No Applause for Bahrain’s Sham Election,” in which he analyzed the Bahraini elections to be held on November 24, 2018.

The electoral history of the small kingdom of Bahrain, which is getting ready for fake elections on November 24th.

Bahrain's Al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi renewed the call to boycott the elections, stressing that all Bahrainis agree that the upcoming councils "will only bring more pressure and deprivation."

The judicial Committee for the Settlement of Stalled Real Estate Projects decided to hold an auction for Amwaj Gateway, a stalled real estate project auction, on December 10, 2018, after decreasing the setting price to 17.500.000 BD.

The governmental committee supervising elections had to provide free transportation service for those who would like to head to voting centers to vote amid wide elections boycott.

Head of the Public Prosecution and head of the electoral crimes investigation committee Mhana Al-Shayji said that the Public Prosecution received a complaint from one of the candidates against another one in the same directorate for publishing a footage on his account on social media outlets that included insults against the plaintiff candidate.

The Public Prosecution referred on Wednesday (November 21, 2018) Al-Wefaq former MP Ali Al-Asheeri to trial over charge of “misusing mobile phone” on background of a tweet in which he announced boycotting elections.

Local Akhbar Al-Khaleej newspaper said that the Academic Accreditation Committee affiliated with the Higher Education Council discovered dozens of forged certificates. Among the discovered certificates, there is a holder of a forged certificate who works as an undersecretary in the services ministries.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday at the start of a tour of several Arab countries, his first trip abroad since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi that caused a global outcry.

France said on Thursday it had imposed sanctions, including travel bans, on 18 Saudi citizens linked to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and said more could follow depending on results of an investigation.

Britain is doing everything in its power to free Matthew Hedges, a British academic jailed for life in the UAE on spying charges, his wife said on Thursday after meeting Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Iran sees no point in fresh nuclear talks with the US without guarantees it will not renege on any deal made, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday.

Qatar’s foreign minister said on Thursday that “whoever is responsible” for the murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi should be held accountable.

Some candidates running in the 2018 Parliamentary elections remind us of the amusing contestants who join the Arab Idol contest.

The Third Minor Criminal Court sentenced a citizen to one month in jail over vandalizing an election billboard of a candidate. The court replaced the sentence with binding the suspect to not approach any of the candidates' billboards and fined him 200 BD for the charge attributed to him. It also bind him to pay 236 BD, value of the damaged billboard, for the candidate.

Bahrain detained and charged five people Wednesday for "obstructing the electoral process", the public prosecution said, ahead of parliamentary polls set for the end of the week.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that peace talks between Yemen’s warring parties were likely to take place in early December in Sweden.

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Wednesday that U.S. bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar, and U.S. aircraft carriers in the Gulf were within range of Iranian missiles, as tensions rise between Tehran and Washington.