News of the day from across the globe, March 31

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet approved Israel’s first new settlement in two decades to compensate for the court-ordered demolition of a settler outpost.

For the past two decades, the international community has backed a two-state solution to the conflict where a Palestinian state would be established alongside Israel in territory it captured in the 1967 war.

The Trump administration has told Congress it plans to approve a multibillion-dollar sale of F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain without the human rights conditions imposed under former President Barack Obama.

The approval would allow the gulf island to purchase 19 jets from Lockheed Martin Corp. Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, is a predominantly Shiite island ruled by a Sunni monarchy.

Government forces, with help from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, crushed a 2011 uprising by Shiites and others who sought more political power.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said earlier this month that the purpose of the meeting would be to “defuse tensions over North Korea and the recent deployment” of the first stages of the U.S. Army’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense antimissile system in South Korea.

Trump entered office highlighting grievances with Beijing, including the U.S. trade deficit with China, charges of currency manipulation and concern over the country’s military expansion to back its territorial claims in disputed maritime areas.