Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blasted his US counterpart Donald Trump's plan to recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital on Wednesday, saying it would not be tolerated. 

The Syrian government warned on Wednesday of the "dangerous consequences" of US President Donald Trump's plan to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Pope Francis Wednesday defended the "status quo" of Jerusalem, hours ahead of an announcement by US President Donald Trump in which officials said he will recognise the disputed city as Israel's capital.

Yemeni rebels who seized full control of the capital Sanaa over the past week have detained more than 40 media staff, press watchdogs said on Wednesday, demanding their immediate release.

The UN envoy for the Middle East peace process said Wednesday that Jerusalem's future status must be negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians and warned of the repercussions of any action over the disputed city.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warned Wednesday that President Donald Trump's plan to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital underlines the urgency of a new US-led Middle East peace plan.

President Donald Trump will recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital Wednesday, upending decades of careful US policy and ignoring dire warnings of a historic misstep that could trigger a surge of violence in the Middle East.

The U.N. Security Council called Tuesday on all sides in war-torn Yemen to "de-escalate" and return to talks as the conflict there took an ominous turn with the killing of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

"The members of the Security Council call all sides to de-escalate and to recommit and re-engage without preconditions in the U.N.-led political process to achieve a durable ceasefire," Japanese ambassador Koro Bessho, the council's president, said after a closed-door meeting on the situation.

Most of those detained in a sweeping anti-corruption purge of the Saudi elite have struck monetary settlements in exchange for their freedom, the attorney general said Tuesday, a month after they were locked up in a 5-star hotel.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday warned President Donald Trump that moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was a "dangerous step" that could rile Muslims around the world.

"Moving the U.S. embassy is a dangerous step that provokes the feelings of Muslims around the world," state-run al-Ekhbariya TV quoted King Salman as telling Trump in a phone call.