Bahrain
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FIFA To Investigate Bahrain's 10-0 World Cup Win
Football | Mar 02, 2012, 11:13 AM ISTGeneva, Mar 2 : FIFA has launched an investigation into the "unusual outcome" of Bahrain's 10-0 victory over a weakened Indonesia team in a World Cup qualifying match.Bahrain's win on Wednesday has raised suspicion because
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Bahrain King Vows Reform After Rights Violations Report
World | Nov 24, 2011, 09:07 AM ISTManama, Nov 24: Bahrain's king vowed reforms on Wednesday after a commission of inquiry found that his security forces used “excessive force” and tortured detainees in a March crackdown on Shiite-led protests.King Hamad commissioned the
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Banned Bahrain Player Joins Australian Club
Football | Aug 16, 2011, 11:03 AM ISTBrisbane, Australia, Aug 16 : Banned Bahrain defender Sayed Mohamed Adnan has joined Australia's Brisbane Roar in a one-year deal.Adnan, a Shiite Muslim, was one of several players not included in Bahrain's World Cup qualifying
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17 Killed As Yemen Boils; US Pushes For Saleh's Removal
World | Apr 05, 2011, 09:56 AM ISTSaana, Apr 4 : Yemen came close to the brink today as security forces shot dead 17 people among the thousands of anti-regime protesters who stormed the Governor's headquarters in the city of Taiz, and
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Foreign Plot Against Gulf Foiled: Bahrain King
World | Mar 21, 2011, 07:55 PM ISTManama, Mar 21: Bahrain's monarch Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa today said an external plot to "subvert security and stability" in the country had been foiled as he praised the Saudi-led GCC force for helping
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Bahrain King Says Foreign Plot Against Gulf Foiled
World | Mar 21, 2011, 02:34 PM ISTManama, Mar 21: Bahrain has foiled a "foreign plot" to target Gulf countries, King Hamad said in a possible reference to Iran, after security forces crushed Shiite-led unrest, the state news agency reported today.He said
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Bahrain Crackdown Enrages Shiites Across Region
World | Mar 19, 2011, 08:42 AM ISTManama, March 18: Bahrain's army today demolished the 90-metre monument that had become a symbol of a monthlong uprising against the monarchy in the Gulf nation. The destruction of the six white curved beams topped
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Bahrain Locks Down Kingdom As Uprising Surges
World | Mar 17, 2011, 12:48 PM ISTManama, Bahrain, Mar 17: Soldiers and riot police in Bahrain overran a protesters' camp, imposed a 12-hour curfew and choked off movement in this tiny island kingdom that has been rocked by a month of
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Bahrain Forces Overrun Protest Camp, Six Dead
World | Mar 16, 2011, 08:32 PM ISTManama, Mar 16: Backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, army and riot police today cracked down on anti-government protesters driving them out from a landmark square in the heart of Bahrain Capital leaving at least
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Bahrain Unleashes Forces On Protesters' Camp
World | Mar 16, 2011, 03:01 PM ISTManama, Bahrain, Mar 16: Military troops and security forces opened a large-scale assault Wednesday against hundreds of anti-government protesters occupying a landmark square in Bahrain's capital, a day after emergency rule was imposed and clashes
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Bahrain King Clamps Down; Several Dead As Unrest Spreads
World | Mar 16, 2011, 08:12 AM ISTSitra, Mar 16: Bahrain's king declared a three-month state of emergency on Tuesday to quell a Shiite uprising, as clashes spread through the capital and surrounding villages in a showdown that drew in the region's
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Bahrain Under Emergency, Indian Community Safe
World | Mar 15, 2011, 10:13 PM ISTDubai, March 15: Bahrain's monarch today declared a three-month state of emergency, amid growing pro-democracy protests in the country, forcing it to invite troops from Saudi Arabia and UAE to quell the unrest. Bahrain's King
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Indians Should Keep Low Profile In Bahrain
India | Mar 14, 2011, 09:10 PM ISTNew Delhi, March 14 : Indian has asked its nationals in Bahrain to keep a low profile during the current political unrest.Speaking to newspersons here today, E. Ahamed, Minister of State for External Affairs said,
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Bahrain's King Visits Saudi Allies Amid Protests
World | Feb 23, 2011, 05:30 PM ISTManama, Bahrain, Feb 23: Faced with mounting pressure from demonstrators, Bahrain's king is visiting ally Saudi Arabia for talks on the unrest. Tens of thousands of protesters have flooded the tiny kingdom's capital, calling for
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Bahrain Needs To Reform Quickly, Says Clinton
World | Feb 21, 2011, 09:18 AM ISTWashington, Feb 20 : Bahrain should roll out an immediate process of political reform, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today, while deploring the use of force against peaceful protesters.Clinton said violence against peaceful
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Protesters Help The Wounded In Bahrain Hospital
World | Feb 19, 2011, 01:21 PM ISTManama, Bahrain, Feb 19 : The scenes inside the hospital were so horrific even doctors cried."He was shot in the head. I saw it, it was in the head," a nurse said to a group
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Bahrain Troops Shoot At Protesters
World | Feb 18, 2011, 10:40 PM ISTManama, Feb 18: Bahraini troops shot at protesters near Pearl Square on Friday and wounded many, a former Shi'ite lawmaker said, a day after police forcibly cleared a protest camp from the traffic circle in
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Egypt-Like Protests In Iran, Bahrain, Yemen
World | Feb 15, 2011, 01:48 PM ISTDubai, Feb 15 : The possible heirs of Egypt's uprising took to the streets in different corners of the Middle East: Iran's beleaguered opposition stormed back to central Tehran and came under a tear gas