Palestinians have expressed outrage at teams from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for taking part in the opening legs of the Giro d’Italia cycling race in Israel over the weekend, which they say undermined Arab solidarity with their cause.

Batelco’s Board of Directors approved in the meeting held on May 3, 2018 the functional structure of Batelco’s two separate entities, one of which will be retail and one for wholesale.

Director General of Organization and Position Budget in Civil Service Bureau Engineer Jamal Abdulaziz Al Alawi said that the main organizational structure of 15 governmental bodies were studied in 2017.

The Shura Council agreed in its session on Sunday (May 6, 2018) with the House of Representatives on all the amendments added to the health insurance law, without any amendments on the bill passed by the House of Representatives about two weeks ago. The council passed all the 88 articles of the law within 3 hours

An official source said that competent parties are working on issuing permits to collect money for charity, religious, social disabilities and relief organizations and other official organizations.

Head of Parliamentary inquiry committee Mohsen Al-Bakri told Al-Bilad local newspaper about some of service projects that the government committed to its work program for 2015-2018 saying that the Ministry of Social Development is the most governmental body that fails to implement the plans committed to in the government’s program of action.

Lawyer Rim Al-Shaalan said that the prison’s authorities are preventing prisoners from access to Shiite books.

Chief of Public Security Tariq Al Hassan discussed with Chief Executive of the Supreme Council for Environment Mohammed Mubarak bin Dainah process of linking radioactive contamination sensor network to ministry of interior.

Bahrain Embassy in the United States organized a seminar on defence and security relations between the two countries, held at the residence of Bahrain’s ambassador Abdullah bin Rashid Al Khalifa, in cooperation with the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS-Americas), based in Washington.

Transplant administrative coordinator at King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Hassan Al-Khanani, said that “the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation signed a deal with Bahrain, represented by King Fahad Specialist Hospital with Salmaniya Medical Complex, to transplant organs to Bahraini patients in Bahrain, in case of stroke deaths.”

Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense, and National Security in the House of Representatives rejected a bill to amend foreigners’ law (immigration and residence). The amendment suggests “creating a money account specialized to achieve the aims of this law with 5% of the fees for entry and residence of foreigners, all foreigners, to Bahrain. The bank account of each foreigner is used according to the interior minister’s decision in case he doesn’t afford the expenses of returning to his country.”

News websites reported that the head of Human Rights Subcommittee at European Parliament said Bahrain refused to receive the committee's delegation to assess the human rights situation there.

Bahrain Press Association (BPA) said that it documented 22 final verdicts against journalists, photographers and online activists convicted over cases related to opinion and freedom of expression last year.

UN human rights experts have called for the retrial of four men sentenced to death by a Bahraini military court in a collective trial that breached fair trial and due process guarantees and confessions obtained under torture.

Amnesty International issued a report on Wednesday (May 2, 2018) that includes new details about last moments of trial of suspects accused of planning to assassinate Bahrain Defence Force Commander-in-Chief Khalifa bin Ahmad. The military court upheld death sentences against 4 individuals, including 3 civilians, before the king commuted the sentences to life imprisonment.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa issued Law 15/2018 on the amendment of some law provisions on societies, social and cultural clubs and private bodies working in the youth, sports and private associations field, issued by Law 21/1989

The security authorities released today Sheikh Isa Al-Moemen after serving his 3-month jail term.

Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa hailed yesterday (Wednesday, May 2, 2018) Saudi Arabia and its king during his meeting with Editors-in-Chief of Saudi newspapers.

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) agreed to reconsider the death verdict issued against two death row convicts Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Mousa.

The quarterly report of monitoring the performance of the eGovernment channels revealed the growth of ePayment value across various channels by 12% during the first quarter of 2018 versus last quarter of 2017. Values reach more than BD23 million completed from January to March 2018 with an increase of 10% in number of financial transactions.