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Bahrain on alert amid demo calls

DUBAI: Bahrain’s security forces set up checkpoints and clashed with marchers in at least one village yesterday as opposition groups blanketed social media sites with calls to stage the first major anti-government protests in the Gulf since the uprising in Egypt.

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(MENAFN – The Peninsula) Bahrain’s King H M Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has ordered that each Bahraini family in the country be given $3,000.

Is to mark the 10th anniversary of a national charter for reforms, state news agency BNA said. The decision came as cyber activists called for protests from Monday.

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