The US government has said that Israel's construction of new settlements on occupied Palestinian land "may not be helpful" in achieving peace, a White House statement said. ....

The US President raised questions about whether the University of California should continue receiving federal funds after demonstrators at the Berkeley campus forced the cancellation of a speech by Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulos. ....

US President Donald Trump has sparked a fresh diplomatic row -- this time with Australia -- by branding a refugee deal with the country as "dumb", days after holding a heated conversation with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. ....

This is the question a seven-year-old Syrian girl Bana Alabed -- who has garnered worldwide attention by tweeting about her life in Aleppoin Syria -- asked the US President Donald Trump in a fresh video. ....

Kuwait has suspended the issuance of visas for nationals of Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. ....

Donald Trump blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refu­gee agreement which led to the US President abruptly end an hour-long phone call only after 25 minutes into speaking. ....

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said here on Wednesday that the US travel ban imposed on refugees and immigrants from seven Middle East and North African countries "is not the way to best protect the US or any other country," voicing his hope that "this measure should be removed sooner rather than later". ....

Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Christians to stand by their faith and believe in resurrection and eternal life, admitting that we all fear death. ....

An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing at an airport in Knoxville in Tennessee following a bomb scare, the media reported on Wednesday. ....

Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay will travel to Japan to deliver talks and highlight the Tibetan cause, his office said on Wednesday. ....