There are fears that a deadlock in political efforts to solve a three-year-old standoff is deepening frustration among young Shi’ites.
Second citizenship expert says he has seen a significant jump in interest from Russian millionaires in the last month.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said it had signed a deal with Bahraini sovereign wealth fund to identify and work together on investment opportunities in their countries.
Bahrain’s official news agency did not name the five but said they had confessed to the plot.
Eight men planted a homemade bomb close to where police usually erected a checkpoint during protests, before setting tyres on fire and blocking the road to lure policemen to the site.
This latest move likely adds to tensions in the tiny Gulf state, where there are clashes with police in many Shi’ite areas almost every day.
Prince Turki al-Faisal said that the Gulf states should be prepared for any possible outcome from Iran’s nuclear talks with world powers.
Two newspapers were suspended after they published stories about a recording that discusses an alleged plot to overthrow the Gulf state’s ruling system.
The cleric used unusually placatory language about Qatar’s neighbours, some of whom he has accused of a variety of failings including being insufficiently Islamic.
The armed men fled the scene after shooting dead Captain Ashraf Badeer el-Qazaz of the intelligence service, the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said on its Twitter account the explosion was in the mostly Shi’ite village of al-Maqshaa’, outside of the capital Manama.
GCC foreign ministers met in Riyadh for a comprehensive review of measures used to implement foreign and security policies.
Prince Bandar, a former ambassador to Washington, was appointed as the chief Saudi spy in July 2012.
The reported gas attacks posed a clear challenge to the Security Council decision to dismantle Assad’s chemical arsenal, a senior official said.
Religious clerics found preaching about politics during their Friday sermons could lose their jobs, the ministry said.
The guards came under heavy fire from the Yemeni side of the border at about 3 a.m in the eastern part of Jizan province.
The Opposition Coalition said parliament should be able to work without the threat of dissolution.
Local media reported that the website was shut down for publishing anti-Islamic material.
A statement said all forms of communication were banned from discussing the case, including news outlets and social media.
Kuwait, which offered to mediate in the dispute, is planning to present a solution to the two sides soon, a Gulf Arab diplomat said.
The law is expected to be ready by 2015, according to a UAE federal minister.
The incident took place near a government security building in the Adliya district.
Two bombs killed a police officer and wounded five other security forces who had been guarding the facility, the ministry said.
The men are reportedly the first to be charged under the terms of a February royal decree.
Nayef al-Ajmi was quoted as saying that comments made by the U.S. official in March, were “baseless and groundless”.
Defendants were accused of attacking two officers and of taking part in an illegal protest, according to their lawyer.
The Kingdom recently appointed Prince Muqrin as deputy crown prince.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Friday’s two-hour exchange in the Kingdom did not yield a shared statement or any evidence of policy changes.
US President Barack Obama made the remarks during an official visit to the Kingdom.