The White House on Tuesday condemned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's claim that Israel had a role in toppling ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the comments were "offensive and unsubstantiated and wrong."

The United States signaled Monday that it was prepared to resume aid to Mali following a presidential election that paved the way for the return of a democratically elected government.

Marie Harf, deputy spokeswoman at the State Department, hailed the strife-torn country's interim government for "securing a peaceful and orderly environment in which Malians were able to vote."

The United States on Monday urged North Korea to free a jailed U.S. citizen, warning that his health was deteriorating.

The State Department confirmed accounts by Kenneth Bae's sister that the Korean-American tour operator was moved from prison to a hospital in North Korea.

U.S. leadership at the United Nations is indispensable, Washington's new envoy to the global body said Monday.

Samantha Power presented her credentials to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon following her confirmation by the U.S. Senate late last week.

A woman who gave birth to a baby boy on a Metro platform in downtown Washington is getting $100 in subway or bus fare.

Shavonnte Taylor received a handwritten note of congratulations Thursday from Metro general manager Richard Sarles. Included in the note was a $100 fare card.

The White House said Thursday it would review plans for a U.S.-Russia presidential summit in early September after Moscow's decision to grant asylum to U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

"We're extremely disappointed," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. "We're evaluating the utility of a summit in light of this and other issues."

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday hailed new U.S. sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, approved ahead of the new Iranian president's inauguration.

"Following the Iranian elections the (U.S.) House of Representatives has sent a clear message to the Iranian regime that international pressure will increase until Iran... ceases its pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability," Netanyahu said in a statement.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed Tuesday to meet again within the next two weeks, aiming to seal a final peace deal in nine months, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.

The two sides will meet in either Israel or the Palestinian territories and "our objective will be" to reach a "final status agreement over the course of the next nine months," Kerry told reporters after Israelis and Palestinians ended a three-year freeze on talks.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet in Washington on Tuesday for a round of talks after a three-year break, a Palestinian official said on Saturday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, he told Agence France Presse that the Palestinian delegation would be led by chief negotiator Saeb Erakat with the Israelis headed by Justice Minister Tzipi Livni.

The United States has revoked the visa of a top Syrian diplomat who tried to enter the country to take up a post at the war-torn country's embassy, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

Ali Daghman was stopped from entering the U.S. when he arrived Tuesday at Dulles airport in Washington, the Wall Street Journal reported.