Bahrain’s public prosecutor charged two leaders of the country’s banned main opposition party of spying for Qatar on Wednesday, months after cutting ties with the neighboring Gulf monarchy amid a regional diplomatic row.

Bahrain Airport Company (BAC), the managing body and operator of Bahrain International Airport, announced that Bahrain’s national carrier, Gulf Air, and Cathay Pacific provide now self-service check-in measures through new kiosks, which provide more speed and flexibility during the process of registering the passengers data.

Saudi Arabia plans to start issuing tourist visas "soon", authorities said Tuesday, as the kingdom seeks to attract international visitors in a radical overhaul of its oil-dependent economy.

The sale of the stalled Amwaj Gateway project has been postponed to November 29. The judicial Committee for the Settlement of Stalled Real Estate Projects announced the postponement of the public auction to protect the rights of all parties and allow more time for potential buyers.

The High Criminal Appeals Court rejected the appeals of two suspects (23 and 18 years) and upheld sentencing one of them to 5 years in prison and the other one to 2 years over putting, along with another suspect who did not appeal, fake bomb in Sheikh Salman Street near Bilad Al-Qaddem and ordered the confiscation of seized items.

The Bahraini Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa ordered on Tuesday (October 31, 2017) to impose entry visa on citizens and residents of Qatar.

Al-Ayyam Bahraini local newspaper reported that four MPs told the paper about their intention to withdraw from the request to form a commission of inquiry into the violations of the departments of the Sunni and Jafari Endowment directorates (Waqf), only hours after signing the request.

Bahrain's lower court jailed 10 Shiite men for life on Tuesday on charges of plotting attacks a day after the Gulf state sentenced 19 others to lengthy prison terms

Bahrain has decided to impose visas on travellers from Qatar, which is embroiled in a diplomatic crisis with its Arab neighbours, Bahraini state media reported Tuesday.

Bahrain said on Tuesday it would impose entry visas on Qatar nationals and residents in what it called a security measure.

A Bahraini court sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment and revoked their citizenship on charges of forming a terrorist cell and plotting attacks, the Bahraini Public Prosecution said on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia has set up a new authority for cyber security and named its minister of state Musaed al-Aiban its chairman, strengthening security in the world’s largest oil exporter, a royal decree said.

There are no winners among Iraq’s Kurds, just weeks after Kurdish president Masoud Barzani gambled away his people’s autonomy in a defiant independence referendum.

The Iraqi government plans to soon start paying the salaries of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and civil servants working for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday.

Iran has no need to increase the range of its ballistic missiles as they could already reach U.S. forces stationed in the region, the head of the Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday.

Iraqi troops deployed on Tuesday at one of the main land crossings with Turkey, gaining a foothold at the Kurdish-held frontier for the first time in decades and imposing one of Baghdad’s central demands on the Kurds.

An Iraqi military delegation is preparing to take control of the Kurdistan region border with Syria, an Iraqi military statement said on Tuesday.

The IMF on Tuesday advised energy-rich Gulf economies to speed up their diversification away from oil after projecting the worst growth for the region since the global financial crisis.

The committee in charge of settling stalled real estate projects in Bahrain announced the closure of the Juffair Views project after the distribution of the sale proceeds of the project to the purchasers of the 58 units over a period of 24 days.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 10 defendants to life imprisonment in a politically motivated case, also stripping them all of their Bahraini nationality.