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Manama: The National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) has today announced the licensing of the first injectable medicines manufacturing site in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Gulf Biotech Company, established in 2015 as part of a joint Bahraini-Saudi venture, will be granted a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) certificate to start producing and marketing sterile and injectable formulations subject to passing an NHRA inspection. Commenting on the facility’s impending inspection, Her Excellency Dr Maryam Al Jalahma, CEO of the National Health Regulatory Authority, said: “The NHRA will ensure that the injectable medicines manufacturing site meets the necessary safety and quality standards in-line with…

Information Affairs Minister, Ali bin Mohammed Al-Romaihi, has underlined the Ministry’s keenness to provide a variety of television and radio programmes during the holy month of Ramadan that reflects the authentic Bahraini heritage and appeals to Bahraini and Arab viewers. The minister made the statements while visiting “Souq Al-Baraha” at Diyar Al-Muhrarraq, where the Al-Sariyah TV Quiz show is filmed and produced. Al-Romaihi was informed about the progress of the TV quiz show, praising the support enjoyed by the media sector, in general, and the Al-Sariyah Programme, in particular, from HM the King’s Representative for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs…

Bahrain has condemned the Israeli police’s storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday, and the resulting acts of violence, injury and arrest of dozens of worshipers, which represents a provocation to Muslims, especially in the Holy Month of Ramadan. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed the importance of respecting the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif, and the need to respect the role of Jordan in caring for sanctities and endowments in accordance with international law and the existing historical context. It affirmed the need to stop any provocative measures that would fuel violence, religious hatred, extremism and instability. The…

The qualifying stage of the “His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Quran Award” has started with the participation of as many as 600 contestants, the organisers announced. Patronisied by HH Shaikha Lulwa bint Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the award is organised by the Al-Noor Charity Welfare Society for the second straight year. The organising committee said that there is a fierce competition among the participants, noting that the competitions are held for 61 contestants every night, after the Al-Taraweeh prayers, via Teams application. The panel asserted that the award jury comprises specialists in the holy Quran…

Saudi Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saudi, today held a telephone call with President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China. During the telephone conversation, the distinguished bilateral relations between the two countries and ways of developing them within the Saudi-Chinese Joint Committee were discussed, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The two sides also agreed to exert more effort to enhance partnership and strategic relations between the two friendly countries. The overall international situations and issues were also reviewed. During the telephone conversation, China’s President lauded…

Russia’s warplanes bombed Lviv and its missiles struck Kyiv and Kharkiv on Saturday, as Moscow followed through on a threat to launch more long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities after its Black Sea Fleet’s flagship was sunk. In besieged Mariupol, scene of the war’s heaviest fighting and worst humanitarian catastrophe, Russian troops pressed recent advances, hoping to make up for their failure to capture Kyiv by seizing their first big prize of the war. Moscow said its planes had struck a tank repair factory in the capital, where an explosion was heard and smoke seen in the southeastern Darnytskyi district. Kyiv’s…

Ukraine’s richest man has pledged to help rebuild the besieged city of Mariupol, a place close to his heart where he owns two vast steelworks that he says will once again compete globally. Rinat Akhmetov has seen his business empire shattered by eight years of fighting in Ukraine’s east but remains defiant, sure that what he calls “our brave soldiers” will defend the Sea of Azov city reduced to a wasteland by seven weeks of bombardment. For now, though, his Metinvest company, Ukraine’s biggest steelmaker, has announced it cannot deliver its supply contracts and while his financial and industrial SCM…

Dozens of people gathered in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Friday to mourn the sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, a symbol, the crowd heard, of hope, revival and power until its demise. Some embraced and others laid flowers in memory of the Moskva missile cruiser at a monument to the 1696 foundation of the Russian navy in the centre of Sevastopol, headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet. Moscow, which annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, said the ship sank while being towed in stormy seas after a fire caused by an ammunition explosion. Ukraine said…

Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said nine humanitarian corridors had been agreed for Saturday to evacuate civilians, including from the besieged city of Mariupol by private cars. Vereshchuk said in a statement that five of the nine evacuation corridors were from Ukraine’s Luhansk region in the east of the country, which local officials have said is under heavy shelling.

Russian gas producer Gazprom continued to supply natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Saturday in line with requests from European consumers, it said in a statement. Requests stood at 57.2 million cubic metres for April 16, it said.