He said the football governing body had seen “enough” in terms of all the problems and scandals.
UNICEF’s Yemen representative said “many, many children” had been killed in the fighting.
The US president said GCC states are struggling with issues such as youth unemployment and “destructive” ideologies.
The aid agency has been negotiating for nearly a week to deliver life-saving supplies and equipment to Yemen.
Warplanes and ships from a Saudi-led coalition have been bombing the Houthi forces for 11 days.
The bomb exploded on a bridge leading to the upscale Cairo district of Zamalek on Sunday.
UAE fighter jets struck a surface-to-air missile base and a radar site in Marib.
Obama also invited the Gulf leaders to meet with him at Camp David this spring to discuss the tentative deal.
The company agreed terms last week with Egypt for the first phase of a $36.7 billion plan to construct one million homes across the country.
Sending troops in the future remains a possibility, he said.
A senior U.S. military official said the US was helping Saudi keep an eye on Houthi forces and monitor the Saudi border with Yemen.
The light weapons, telecommunications equipment and rocket-propelled grenades were dropped over Tawahi.
Uncomfortably close to the 2018 completion date, the GCC rail project is swamped by delays and challenges.
It is the first time since the survey was launched in September 2013 that the bears outweigh the bulls for both equities and fixed income simultaneously.
The first phase will consist of 100,000 units to be built in Egypt’s El Obour and Badr districts.
Corporal Salman Ali Yahya al-Maliki was killed in the border province of Asir.
The Iran-allied Houthi militia has weathered seven days of Saudi-led air strikes and continued to advance on several fronts, with support from army units loyal to Saleh.
V. Shankar has resigned as CEO of Europe, Middle East, Africa and Americas after 13 years at the bank.
The move came as Yemen’s own national carrier, Yemenia, confirmed it was suspending all operations.
Obama directed the release of 12 Lockheed Martin F-16 aircraft, 20 Boeing Harpoon missiles, and up to 125 M1A1 Abrams tank kits to Egypt.
A legal team has been assigned to build a framework by May this year for the eventual introduction of VAT in the region.
A local rights organisation said 29 civilians were killed in one strike near the airport on the first day of the offensive.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that Tehran has a proposal to end the conflict in Yemen.
A Saudi-led coalition has bombed Iran-allied Houthi fighters and army units fighting against President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Saudi Arabia, along with a coalition of Gulf states, is conducting airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The strike are aimed at stopping the Houthis from taking more territory and pressing them to negotiate a power-sharing deal with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) to the UAE, which although grew 25 per cent in 2014, did not reach the estimated amount of $14.4 billion.
Yemen’s state news agency Saba, which is under the control of the Houthis, said the camp at Haradh was hit by Saudi planes.
The conditions for the talks would include returning weapons to state authorities and not threatening the security of Yemen’s neighbours.
Pakistan, an ally of Saudi Arabia, has yet to commit itself publicly to military support to Riyadh’s campaign in Yemen.