Topic: King Abdullah II

President Trump plans to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz next week in Washington, D.C., in the first meeting between the two leaders.

Leaders from Egypt, France and Jordan urged President Donald Trump in a phone call to "to urgently secure a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip with Hamas and Israel.

North Korea on Wednesday slammed the United States over President Trump's announced aim to take control of the Gaza Strip and permanently displace its residents, calling it "slaughter and robbery" in state-run media.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Hamas that if the rest of the hostages are not released by Saturday at noon, the "cease-fire will be terminated" and Hamas will be "decisively defeated."

President Donald Trump met Tuesday with King Abdullah II as the Jordanian leader says his country will take in thousands of sick Palestinian kids displaced in the Gaza Strip.

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the first Gulf countries to normalize relations with Israel under the 2020 Abraham Accords, have condemned recent Israeli proposals to relocate Palestinians to Saudi Arabia.

Moscow said that the United Nations Security Council held an emergency session at its request Monday to discuss the situation in Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime by opposition forces.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the focus of NATO's Allied Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting being held Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium, and might lead to Ukraine joining NATO.

Leaders at the 33rd Arab League summit on Thursday condemned the Israeli offensive in Gaza and called for the "immediate" withdrawal of forces from the region.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Jordan's top leaders Tuesday in Amman, where he is working to secure more humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip and a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas.