Look at who’s talking: divining Trump’s Middle East plans
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The Economist
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump will inherit a tangle of conflicts in the Middle East; will he deliver on his promise to “stop the wars”? That will depend on who has his ear. Our correspondent says the way to better rehabilitate people in British prisons is to take some of them out (10:33). And our obituaries editor on the staggeringly productive career of Quincy Jones (19:15).
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