Saudi-backed head of Yemen’s presidential council tells UAE to leave

Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday its national security was a red line, hours after an airstrike on Yemen’s southern port of Mukalla by a Saudi-led coalition, and gave UAE forces 24 hours to leave, in Riyadh’s strongest language against Abu Dhabi yet.

As tension between the two Gulf oil powers reaches boiling point, the coalition struck what it described as foreign military support to UAE-backed southern separatists, while the head of Yemen’s Saudi-backed presidential council set the deadline.