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Bahrain turns car park into ICU for virus patients

Bahrain has turned a car park near the capital Manama into an intensive care unit with 130 beds for patients infected with the novel coronavirus, in a first in the Gulf. The new ICU in the covered car park was set up as a precautionary measure in case of a spike in cases of the COVID-19...

Gulf Air to repatriate stranded Bahrainis from Iran

Bahrain said Monday that state-owned Gulf Air has begun flying to Iran to repatriate Bahrainis stranded there due to the coronavirus crisis, the first direct flights between the two countries in four years. More than a thousand Bahrainis, most of them pilgrims visiting Shi'ite Muslim...

Yemen's Houthi rebels sentence 4 reporters to death

A court run by Yemen's Houthi rebels Saturday sentenced four journalists to death after their conviction on spying charges, their defense lawyer said. The four were among a group of 10 journalists who were detained by the Iran-backed rebels and accused of "collaborating with the enemy,"...