A son of the ruler of Sharjah was buried in the emirate Wednesday, as a three-day mourning period began after his unexpected death in London.

The suspected mastermind of last week's twin suicide bombings in Tunis was killed when he blew himself up during a police manhunt outside the capital, the government said Wednesday.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Huthi rebels have stepped up drone and missile attacks on Saudi cities, highlighting what analysts call the kingdom's military vulnerabilities amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.

Nine civilians were wounded Tuesday in a rebel attack on Abha airport in the kingdom's south, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels said, the latest in a series of recent strikes on the site.

Israel braced for a third day of protests Wednesday after an off-duty police officer killed a young man of Ethiopian origin, as Israeli leaders urged calm amid accusations of racism.

Since Monday in areas throughout the country, protesters have blocked roads, burned tyres and denounced what they see as discrimination against the Ethiopian-Israeli community.

International condemnation mounted on Wednesday after more than 40 migrants were killed in an air strike on a detention centre in Libya that the U.N. said could constitute a war crime.

Oman on Tuesday denied it has agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, a day after the Israeli intelligence chief said his country was renewing ties.

A Democratic senator warned Tuesday that the United States could cut off arms sales to the United Arab Emirates over a report that the U.S. ally shipped U.S. missiles to Libyan rebels.

Libya's military strongman Khalifa Haftar, by provoking Turkey, seeks to divert attention from battlefield setbacks and draw in his backers, at the risk of a proxy war between regional rivals, experts say.

The speaker of Algeria's lower house of parliament resigned Tuesday, an official told AFP, following calls for him to quit by demonstrators.

Israel has faced protests over an off-duty police officer's killing of a young man of Ethiopian origin and braced for more Tuesday as the incident drew fresh accusations of racism.