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Bahrain () (, ') (, '), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (, '), is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf.
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By Alan BaldwinMANAMA (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday while rage boiled beyond the circuit among protesters who say the island's rulers should not have hosted the race after crushing Arab Spring demonstrations last year.
High security kept trouble well away from the track, where Red Bull's Vettel led an uneventful race before half-empty stands. Activists said police fired tear gas to prevent post-race demonstrations in Shi'ite villages around the capital."They miscalculated. They thought cancelling the race would be a defeat for them but they didn't realize the cost of holding the race," Shi'ite activist Alaa Shehabi said by telephone.Later on Sunday, Shehabi tweeted that she was about to be arrested in Budaiya, where tires were burning after a mass protest on Friday. Calls to her phone were not answered.The luxury sporting event was the government's chance to show life was back to normal in the kingdom after security conce...A defense lawyer says a jailed hunger striker and other activists in Bahrain must wait at least another week as they appeal their life sentences.Lawyer Mohammed al-J...
Bahrain on Friday tore down the 300-foot (90-meter) monument at the heart of a square purged of Shiite protesters this week, erasing a symbol of an uprising that's i...
The wife of a jailed Bahraini activist on hunger strike for more than three months says his condition appears better, but he is still only taking water and juice in ...
The Obama administration is resuming some arms shipments to Bahrain after most were suspended last year because of a government crackdown on political dissent.The St...
Britain has come under criticism for inviting the king of Bahrain, whose Gulf state has engaged in a brutal crackdown on political dissent, to a lunch Friday celebra...
Authorities in Bahrain on Friday stepped up security around the Formula One circuit after clashes between protesters and security forces intensified ahead of the con...
MANAMA, Bahrain -- Anti-government protesters in Bahrain said a man was found dead Saturday after a night of clashes with police ahead of Sunday's controversial Form...
Authorities in Bahrain on Friday stepped up security around the Formula One circuit at the start of the controversial Grand Prix racing weekend in the Gulf kingdom, ...
Tens of thousands of protesters chanting "Bahrain is not for sale" jammed a major highway Friday to denounce proposals for closer unity between the unrest-torn Gulf ...
By Alan BaldwinMANAMA (Reuters) - While demonstrators hurled petrol bombs at the police a half hour's drive away, the only smoke that reached the Bahrain Grand Prix ...
A jailed Bahraini activist who has been on a hunger strike since February has made his first public appearance in months, attending a court hearing in a wheelchair.A...
By Alan BaldwinProtesters seeking to oust Bahrain's monarchy have threatened "days of rage" to coincide with the race meeting, while organizers have ignored appeals ...
By Alan BaldwinMANAMA (Reuters) - Formula One drivers will race in Bahrain on Sunday while rage boils on the streets outside, among protesters who denounce the Grand...
By Alan BaldwinMANAMA (Reuters) - Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday while rage boiled beyond the circuit among prot...
Anti-government protesters flooded a main highway in a march stretching for miles and security forces fired tear gas in breakaway clashes Friday as Bahrain's leaders...
By Alan BaldwinMANAMA (Reuters) - Formula One cars take to the track in Bahrain on Friday with the government hoping a successful Grand Prix will draw a line under m...
By Andrew HammondDUBAI (Reuters) - Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel may have won the Bahrain Grand Prix, but there was no winner in the main event: a public relations bat...
By Alan BaldwinMANAMA (Reuters) - Cancelling Sunday's Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix would only "empower extremists", the country's Crown Prince told reporters on Fr...
Bahraini hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja plans to end his strike Monday, 110 days after he began refusing food, according to his lawyer.Attorney Mohamed al-Jishi...
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