The coalition blamed a technical fault for the crash and said it intercepted two ballistic missiles targeting southwestern Saudi Arabia.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude caught fire after striking a mine in the contested strait.

All seven candidates to lead the United Nations received a vote of “discourage,” effectively a veto, from a permanent UN Security Council member in the latest informal poll, a diplomat said on Friday.

The preacher was accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves and their children to death to go to heaven before the world ended.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi requested the approval in a speech at the weekend.

Tigrayan rebels had launched an offensive against the federal government last month, but were ultimately forced to retreat and lost control of the state.