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MAGA gets the Middle East treatment

Republican voters yearn to be subjects. Donald Trump understood that instinctively

Salon

Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights

This week, on his tour of the Middle East, United States President Donald Trump unveiled a suite of new deals with Saudi Arabia.

The Conversation

Delegates walk out of Fifa congress after Infantino arrives late from Trump trip

FA chair Debbie Hewitt was among those to walk out on Fifa’s annual meeting after Infantino prioritized travel to the Middle East with Donald Trump

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Uefa accuses Gianni Infantino of putting ‘private political interests’ before game after Saudi trip with Donald Trump

Fifa president Gianni Infantino was delayed arriving at the body’s annual Congress after joining US President Trump on his tour of the Middle East

The Independent UK

From 1948 to now, a Palestinian woman in Gaza recounts a life of displacement

Palestinians across the Middle East are commemorating the anniversary of the “Nakba” -- Arabic for “the Catastrophe” -- when some 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by Israeli forces or fled their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 war that surrounded its creation

The Independent UK

Trump holds a USA yard sale

At least on the issue of putting the USA up for sale, we’re all united against Trump

Salon

Live updates: Trump visits main U.S. military base in Middle East as violence flares in Gaza

Live updates: President Donald Trump is to visit the main U.S. military base in the Middle East even as he uses his four-day visit to Gulf states to reject the “interventionism” of America’s past in the region

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Trump signed plenty of contracts in the Middle East, but he’s no closer to the two ‘deals’ he really wants

US President Donald Trump’s visit to Arab states in the Middle East this week generated plenty of multibillion-dollar deals. He said more than US$1 trillion (A$1.5 trillion) worth of deals had been signed with Saudi Arabia alone, though the real total is likely much lower than that.

The Conversation

Boeing, trying to emerge from one of company's most difficult eras, is having a pretty good week

Boeing has secured a pair of major orders in the Middle East during a visit to the region by President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Key takeaways from day two of Donald Trump’s Middle East tour in Qatar

Trump was the first US president to make an official state visit to Qatar, and the stop culminated in a trade deal.

Al Jazeera

Why are Turkey and the PKK turning to peace – and can it last?

Negotiations to end more than 40 years of conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) have taken on a concrete dimension. On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, wrote a letter in which he called on the group to lay down…

The Conversation

Trump Declares the 'Neocon' Era Over

The president’s speech in Saudi Arabia promised a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Can he deliver?

Reason

Strongest solar flare of 2025 erupts from sun, sparking radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and the Middle East (video)

X2.7-class eruption from sunspot AR4087 disrupts radio signals as the active region rotates toward Earth, raising the risk of more flares ahead.

Space

Pope vows every effort to work for peace in regions where Christians persecuted, forced to flee

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North Africa that have been decimated by conflict and persecution

The Independent UK

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Trump's Middle East visit comes as his family deepens its business, crypto ties in the region

It’s not just the “gesture” of a $400 million luxury plane that President Donald Trump says he’s smart to accept from Qatar

The Independent UK

Live updates: Trump receives lavish royal welcome to Saudi Arabia

President Donald Trump is in Saudi Arabia for the first leg of his three-nation visit to the Middle East this week

International Business Times

Trump, Casting Himself As Peacemaker, To Lift Syria Sanctions

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would lift sanctions on Syria to offer it a chance for "greatness" after Bashar al-Assad's fall, as he cast himself as a peacemaker in the Middle East.

Al Jazeera

Trump visits the Middle East: All the countries visited by US presidents

For the second time in his presidency, Donald Trump’s first official state visit is to Saudi Arabia.

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Trump in the Middle East: How much are US-Gulf investments worth?

US President Donald Trump embarks on a three-day tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates from Tuesday.

International Business Times

Trump Heads To The Gulf Eyeing Deals Amid Diplomatic Offensive

Donald Trump will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday on the first leg of a Gulf tour that will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, eyeing business deals even as accords on the Middle East's hotspots will likely be harder to reach.

The Independent UK

Trump live: President says US ‘very close’ to a nuclear deal with Iran

The president also warned that the U.S. could be forced to take a ‘violent course’ with Iran if the friendly course of action does not work

The Independent UK

White House correspondents protest lack of wire reporters on Air Force One

The White House Correspondents Association says it is disturbed that no reporters from either The Associated Press, Bloomberg or Reuters were allowed on Air Force One to cover President Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East on Monday

International Business Times

Trump Heads On Major Middle East Tour

US President Donald Trump on Monday left for Saudi Arabia on what he called a "historic" tour of the Middle East that will mix urgent diplomacy on Gaza and Iran with huge business deals.

The Independent UK

What to know about the latest effort to end Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict

The militant Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, announced its resolve to dissolve itself in a historic declaration that could end one of the Middle East's longest-running insurgencies and bring stability to the region

The Independent UK

Trump reportedly is set to accept a jet from Qatar's royal family for possible use as Air Force One

President Donald Trump reportedly is set to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the royal family of Qatar during his trip to the Middle East this coming week

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