Bahrain
State of Bahrain
Dawlat al-Bahrayn
CAPITAL: Manama (Al-Manamah)
FLAG: Red with a white serrated band (five white points) on the hoist side.
ANTHEM: Music without words.
MONETARY UNIT: The Bahr...
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Bahrain
Bahrain is an archipelago lying between the east coast of Saudi Arabia and the Qatar Peninsula. Made up of some thirty-six islands—the biggest of which is Bahrain Island, where the capi...
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Bahrain
POPULATION 656,397MUSLIM 85 percentOTHER 15 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Kingdom of Bahrain (the official name since 2002) is an archipelago of more than 36 islands in the Pe...
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For years Bahrain has faced the effects of drug narcotics trafficking. Though Bahrain has never itself had an issue with drug trafficking to the point of instating strict laws or creating ...
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Area: 720 sq km (278 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 727,000Capital:
Manama
Chief of state: King Hamad ibn Isa
al-Khalifah
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Khalifah ibn Sulman
al-Khalifah
Poli...
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Manama, Bahrain (dpa) - The foreign ministers of Bahrain and Iran
met Saturday in Manama amid a row over an Iranian publication's claim
that Bahrain was a province of Iran a...
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Manama, Bahrain (dpa) - A picket against increasing poverty in
Bahrain turned violent Friday when demonstrators and police clashed
in the Shiite village of Sanabis, near Ma...
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Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, a spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shiite opposition who was jailed after riots against the country's Sunni leadership, died Monday of heart and kidney failure. He was 67.S...
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Bahraini security forces stormed the houses of the country's most outspoken Shiite opposition group at dawn Friday, arresting at least seven of its members, the group said.The arrests came after a ...
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Iran decided at the last moment Friday not to attend a regional Mideast security conference where Defense Secretary Robert Gates is scheduled to deliver the keynote address, organizers said.The app...
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Like most Shiite Muslim villages in this wealthy Gulf kingdom, Sitra is hidden away from the glitzy shopping malls, the steel-and-glass skyscrapers, the six-lane highways and luxury seaside hotels....
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Tehran (dpa) - Iran on Sunday voiced respect for the sovereignty
and territorial integrity of Bahrain and rejected an Iranian press
report claiming that according to interna...
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Juffair (dpa) - Bahrain central bank governor Rasheed Mohammed al
Maraj said that the country would comply with any possible United
Nations financial sanctions imposed on Ir...
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