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Saudi Shiites rally for Bahrainis: witnesses

Barricades placed by anti-government demonstrators in Manama

DUBAI (AFP) - Hundreds of Saudi Shiites rallied late on Thursday in the east of the kingdom to show solidarity with their fellow Shiites at the centre of protests in Bahrain, witnesses said.
"Free Bahrain! Peninsula Shield out!" chanted the demonstrators, taking up the slogans of Bahraini Shiite pro-democracy demonstrators.
The witnesses said Saudi security forces fired tear gas at demon [...]

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UN warns of ‘shocking’ abuses in Bahrain

Iranian and foreign Muslim clerics face anti-riot policemen during a protest in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran

MANAMA (AFP) - The United Nations warned on Thursday of "shocking and illegal" abuses in Bahrain where the US-backed Sunni Muslim rulers are waging a bloody crackdown on Shiite-led protesters.
The violence in the strategic Gulf kingdom has alarmed Washington and sparked furious condemnation from Iran, Shiite leaders in Iraq and the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
Dissidents were rounded up [...]

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Iran says Bahrain made strategic error on troops

Bahraini soldiers arrest a man believed to be a journalist as he walked towards Manama's Pearl Square

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said on Wednesday that Bahrain had made a "strategic mistake" in asking Gulf troops to help quell pro-democracy protests, as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed Washington for the move.
Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi told the official IRNA news agency the Sunni Muslim-ruled but Shiite-majority Gulf kingdom had committed a "strategic and political" blunder that would co [...]

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UN warns of ‘shocking’ abuses in Bahrain

King Hamad declared a three-month state of emergency across Bahrain

MANAMA (AFP) - The United Nations warned on Thursday of "shocking and illegal" abuses in Bahrain after a bloody crackdown on Shiite-led protesters which has alarmed the United States and infuriated the Shiite world.
Political dissidents were rounded up at gunpoint in midnight raids and police armed with shot-guns stood outside Manama's main hospital, amid reports the authorities were beating [...]

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Fellow Shiites rally behind Bahrain protesters

Bahraini police have raided Manama's Pearl Square, where protesters have been camping for weeks demanding reforms

BAGHDAD (AFP) - From Iran to Saudi Arabia and through the Iraqi city of Najaf, Shiites in the Middle East rallied Wednesday behind Shiite protesters in Bahrain against a violent crackdown by the ruling Sunni dynasty.
In Shiite-majority Iraq, a leading authority of the sect called for an immediate halt to the deadly crackdown in Bahrain.
"We condemn this irresponsible act," Basheer al-Naj [...]

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Gulf intervention in Bahrain ‘foul’: Ahmadinejad

Bahraini soldiers arrest a man believed to be a journalist as he walked towards Manama's Pearl Square

TEHRAN (AFP) - Military intervention in Bahrain by Gulf troops to help quell pro-democracy protests is "foul and doomed," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, the IRNA news agency reported.
"This expedition is a very foul and doomed experience and regional nations will hold the American government responsible for this," Ahmadinejad told reporters after a cabinet meetin [...]

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Five dead as Bahrain police clear Pearl Square

The protesters have been demanding democratic reform in Bahrain

MANAMA (AFP) - Bahrain's opposition accused the kingdom's Sunni authorities of killing three protesters in a violent raid Wednesday on a peaceful pro-democracy camp that sparked Shiite outrage across the region.
Hundreds of riot police backed by tanks and helicopters fired shotguns and tear gas canisters at demonstrators in Pearl Square in the early morning, clearing the symbolic heart of [...]

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Hundreds shot in Bahrain as emergency declared

Anti-government protesters protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Manama

MANAMA (AFP) - At least 200 people were shot and wounded on Tuesday in a Shiite village south of the Bahraini capital, a medic said, and two people killed elsewhere, as the king imposed a state of emergency after bringing in foreign troops to help quell anti-regime protests.
As violence escalated, close ally the United States warned that there was "no military solution" to political uphea [...]

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Bahrain king proclaims state of emergency

The protests erupted in Shiite-majority Bahrain on February 14

MANAMA (AFP) - Bahrain's King Hamad on Tuesday proclaimed a three-month state of emergency, a day after a Saudi-led military force entered the tiny island nation to help put down Shiite-led protests.
"Due to the ongoing circumstances in Bahrain ... King Hamad has announced a state of national emergency as of Tuesday for three months," state television said.
The king had instructed the co [...]

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Zain accepts offer to sell stake in Saudi unit

Zain telecom has accepted a joint offer to sell its 25-percent stake in Zain Saudi Arabia

RIYADH (AFP) - Kuwait Zain telecom has accepted a joint offer by Saudi Kingdom Holding and Bahrain's Batelco to sell its 25-percent stake in Zain Saudi Arabia, a statement said on Monday.
Kingdom Holding said in a statement it had received a "preliminary acceptance of the non-binding offer and a preliminary expression from the Board of Directors of Zain Kuwait."
"The consortium's offer i [...]

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