Trump kicks off Middle East visit with talk of a 'golden age'
The World
PRX
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
As President Donald Trump heads to the Middle East, a look at how the countries he plans to visit are trying to position themselves. Also, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has announced it will disarm and disband. That marks the potential end of the group's four decadelong insurgency against the Turkish military. And, the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has won a mayoral election despite his detention by the International Criminal Court.
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