DUBAI: Two missiles fired from territory held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels missed a commercial tanker near the key Bab El-Mandeb Strait on Wednesday, a US official said.
An American warship also shot down a suspected Houthi drone flying in its direction during the incident, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. No one was hurt in the attack, the official said.
CAIRO: Egyptians cast their ballots on Tuesday, the third and final day of a presidential election expected to give President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi a sweeping victory and a new six-year term in the absence of real competition.
Egypt’s National Elections Authority (NEA) announced that voting for the 2024 Presidential Elections came to a close Tuesday evening, and the vote count has commenced.
PARIS: The United States will always insist on the need to protect journalists reporting from Gaza during the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a letter to Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.
AFP and other international media groups had written to Blinken in late October urging his help in protecting journalists on the ground in Gaza after several were killed since the outbreak of fighting.