U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he will discuss with Saudi Arabia the implementation of a "humanitarian pause" in military operations in Yemen in order to help aid operations.

The possibility of a halt in the US-backed Saudi-led coalition raids in the country comes after United Nations warnings that key infrastructure in Yemen -- including water supplies and hospitals -- is on the brink of collapse and that an arms embargo was hampering the delivery of aid.

With a brand new Americas office in Mexico City, Amnesty International wants to tackle the "hidden crisis" afflicting human rights in the vast region, the organization's head said Tuesday.

In an interview with Agence France Presse, secretary general Salil Shetty said the first headquarters based inside the region, covering from North to South America and the Caribbean, will allow the rights groups to react faster to a slew of problems.

U.S. President Barack Obama met the head of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region at the White House on Tuesday, courting a vital ally on the frontline of the fight against Islamic militants.

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met Massud Barzani to discuss the campaign to regain Iraqi territory lost to the Islamic State group.

An appeals court delayed Tuesday the release of former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr from a Canadian jail in order to mull arguments that doing so would cause irreparable harm to Canada's diplomatic relations.

A final bail decision in the case has now been pushed to Thursday.

A trekker stranded for days in quake-hit Nepal has said he watched boulders the size of minivans smash buildings in a popular tourist area devastated by a massive avalanche, living to tell the tale using skills learnt from U.S. reality TV show "Survivor".

American Corey Ascolani described to Agence France Presse how he spent five terrifying days in the remote tourist area of Langtang following the April 25 quake, which trapped hundreds of tourists and Nepalis.

Taliban militants killed at least 13 policemen after storming security outposts in Afghanistan's remote mountainous northeast, officials said Tuesday, despite peace talks between insurgent representatives and an Afghan delegation.

The pre-dawn raid in Badakhshan province on Monday came just weeks after a similar Taliban raid on army checkpoints in the province in which 18 soldiers were killed -- including some who were beheaded.

Head of al-Mustaqbal Movement and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri met on Tuesday with French President Francois Hollande in Riyadh.

The meeting comes in light of Hariri's shuttle diplomacy to safeguard Lebanon from the conflict raging in the region.

A South Korean student held in North Korea for illegal entry has told CNN in an interview from Pyongyang that he wanted to be arrested.

Joo Won-Moon, 21, who attends New York University and has permanent U.S. residency, said he had hoped to create an "event" that could improve relations between North and South Korea.

An attempted attack by two suspected Islamist gunmen in Texas underscores the persistent threat posed by "homegrown" extremists and the difficulties U.S. authorities face in trying to thwart them, experts said Monday.

Investigators were still trying to piece together the details of Sunday's incident in a Dallas suburb in which a traffic policeman shot dead two heavily armed gunmen who had tried to storm an event organized by an anti-Muslim group.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday insisted her country needed to work with American intelligence agencies, in the wake of claims Berlin helped the US spy on EU leaders and companies.

Merkel's government has faced growing pressure over the allegations, and while analysts expect the popular leader to weather the scandal, her interior minister has drawn media and opposition fire over the "BND affair", referring to Germany's foreign intelligence service.