Shelling from Yemeni rebels killed a Saudi border guard and wounded three civilians including a Bangladeshi, the interior ministry said on Friday.

The Tuwal district of Jazan, on the Saudi frontier with Yemen, came under fire on Thursday afternoon, wounding the border guard corporal, a ministry statement said.

U.S. President Barack Obama said Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas' presence at Shimon Peres' funeral on Friday was a reminder of the "unfinished business of peace."

At the start of his eulogy for Nobel Peace Prize winner Peres in Jerusalem, Obama mentioned Abbas, who was seated in the front row, and said his "presence here is a gesture and a reminder of the unfinished business of peace."

A Cypriot court ruled on Friday that an Egyptian man accused of hijacking a plane and diverting it to Cyprus can be extradited to Cairo for his alleged crimes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shook hands and spoke briefly at Shimon Peres' funeral on Friday in a rare public encounter between the two men.

The encounter took place as mourners gathered ahead of the funeral. It was believed to be their first handshake since a Paris climate meeting last November.

Around 3,800 civilians have been killed in one year of Russian air strikes in Syria in support of President Bashar Assad, a monitoring group said Friday.

French jets blasted off from an aircraft carrier Friday to go into operation over Iraq as the international coalition builds up for the looming battle to win back Mosul from Islamic State jihadists.

A car bomb exploded Thursday evening near the home of a senior assistant to Egypt's prosecutor general, a security official said.

The official said the blast took place in the upscale Tagammu Khamis suburb, steps away from the house of Zakraya Abdel-Aziz. One person was injured apparently from flying shrapnel, he said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday that Washington was on the brink of ending its talks with Russia on the Syrian conflict over the assault on Aleppo.

"I think we are on the verge of suspending the discussion because, you know, it's irrational in the context of the kind of bombing taking place, to be sitting there, trying to take things seriously," Kerry said.

The Saudi-led coalition killed eight civilians in two separate air strikes on rebel-controlled areas of northern Yemen on Thursday, a government official said.

The United Nations aid chief warned Thursday that Aleppo faces a humanitarian catastrophe "unlike any" witnessed so far in Syria's brutal five-year war.

"Let me be clear: east Aleppo this minute is not at the edge of the precipice," Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council.