Bahrain’s national football team has been invited to play a friendly match in besieged Gaza. The invitation from Basem Al Naim, the Palestinian youth and sports minister, is likely to be supported by Bahrainis, unlike the call to play a friendly in Ramallah. No date was mentioned in the invitation conveyed by the minister...
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Doha is drawing up plans to become the region’s first bicycle city, officials have said. “We have worked out the Qatar National Bicycle Master Plan to make Qatar the centre of bicycle in the Middle East,” Saad Mohammad Khodr, Senior Transportation Engineer at the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, said. Saad said that...
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Volunteers who will monitor Bahrain’s forthcoming parliamentary and municipal elections will not be members of any political society, the head of a rights watchdog said. “We will have 200 people to monitor the elections and one of the rules for their enrolment in the programme is that they are neutral and do not belong...
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