The U.S. president has repeatedly asked the two Mideast allies to take in two million Palestinians from Gaza. Both Egypt and Jordan have been trying to offer Mr. Trump help in other ways.

Ecuador's president, Daniel Noboa, has named Luis Alberto Jaramillo as the country's new finance minister and confirmed interim energy and oil minister Ines Manzano in her post, presidential decrees showed.

WASHINGTON — Jordan’s King Abdullah II, long one of the United States’ closest allies, visited the White House on Tuesday to tell President Trump why a mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza to Jordan is not only illegal, but also could spell disaster for the Hashemite kingdom.