SANAA/RIYADH -- Yemen's Houthi group said Sunday evening that a series of airstrikes hit Ras Isa port, a key oil terminal on the Red Sea coast in the western province of Hodeidah, including a port berth and a commercial vessel docked there.
Houthi-run al-Masirah TV attributed the strikes on Ras Isa port to what the group described as "Saudi aggression." The channel gave no immediate information on casualties or the extent of damage to the port or vessel. (Yemen-Saudi Arabia-Airstrikes)
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TEHRAN -- The navy of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday announced that two "violating" oil tankers, including a supertanker, suffered explosions and were stopped after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz within the preceding hours.
In a statement published on the IRGC's official news outlet Sepah News, the navy said the tankers were transiting the "unauthorized" route in the strait. (Iran-Oil Tankers-Explosion)
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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi President Nizar Amedi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi stressed in a phone call on Sunday that dialogue and diplomacy should remain the primary means of resolving disputes in the region, the Iraqi presidency said in a statement.
The two leaders called for containing existing crises, de-escalating tensions and preventing conflicts from spreading, according to the statement. (Iraq-Egypt-Phone Call)
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CAIRO -- Egypt signed a financing agreement worth 1 billion U.S. dollars with the World Bank on Sunday under the second phase of a development policy financing program to support the country's economic reforms, the Egyptian cabinet said.
The agreement was signed by Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, who also serves as Egypt's governor at the World Bank, and Alwaleed Alatabani, the bank's division director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti, at a ceremony attended by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly in the New Administrative Capital, east of Cairo. (Egypt-World Bank-Financing Deal) ■
