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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- The Latest on President Donald Trump's first trip abroad (all times local):
12:20 p.m.
The White House says it's aware that North Korea has launched a midrange ballistic missile in the North's latest weapons test.
White
House officials traveling in Saudi Arabia with President Donald Trump
say the system, which was last tested in February, has a shorter range
than the missiles launched in North Korea's most recent tests.
South Korea's military says the missile was fired Sunday from an area near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
The U.S. has sought to push back against North Korea's work to speed up the development its nuclear weapons and missile program.
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11:45 a.m.
President
Donald Trump is joining with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council in
an effort to counter the financing of terrorism.
White
House adviser Dina Powell tells reporters that a memorandum of
understanding signed by the U.S. and GCC nations represents the
"farthest reaching commitment" to not finance terrorist organizations.
She says it includes a pledge to prosecute the financing of terrorism, including individuals.
Along with the U.S., the participants include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The White House did not immediately release a text of the agreement.
Trump
and the GCC leaders watched as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef
and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson exchanged documents.
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10:20 a.m.
President Donald Trump is making plans for another foreign trip as he eases into his first.
Trump
said Sunday he would accept an invitation made by Egyptian President
Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to visit Egypt. Trump said the visit would happen
before long.
Trump is also calling el-Sissi
his "friend" and praising him for the release of U.S. aid worker Aya
Hijazi, who had been held captive for three years.
Through a translator, el-Sissi said Trump "had a unique personality" that allowed him "to do the impossible."
Trump smiled and said "I agree."
Trump was also overheard complimenting el-Sissi's shoes.
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9:58 a.m.
President Donald Trump says that he and the Emir of Qatar will discuss the purchase of "lots of beautiful military equipment."
Trump and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Sunday morning in Riyadh in a bilateral meeting.
The
president said the two nations had been "friends for a long time." He
added that "no one makes" military equipment like the United States and
said a deal would create jobs for the U.S. and security for Qatar.
The
potion of the meeting open to reporters did not include any discussion
of human rights in Qatar. The nation has come under scrutiny for the
harsh conditions faced by workers building the venues for the 2022 World
Cup.
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9:23 a.m.
President Donald Trump is beginning his day of meetings with Arab leaders with the King of Bahrain.
Trump says the two countries "have a wonderful relationship" but "there has been a little strain."
He
vowed Sunday to improve things further. Trump did not specify what
tension he needed to resolve. The two countries have had a long-term
military alliance though the U.S. Was critical of Bahrain's response to
uprisings during the Arab Spring.
The King of Bahrain also praised the two nations' long-term alliance.
Trump
is set to have a day of meetings before delivering a major speech to
the Muslim world urging unity in the fight against terror.
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9:05 a.m.
President
Donald Trump is kicking off the second day of his first foreign trip
abroad with a series of bilateral and group meetings with foreign
leaders.
Trump will meet with leaders from
Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait, and other countries before delivering a
speech on fighting extremism.
The president
will urge leaders in the region to "drive out the terrorists from your
places of worship." That's according to a draft of the speech obtained
by The Associated Press.
He'll also attend the opening of the new Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology.
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7:20 A.M.
President
Donald Trump is using the nation that is home to Islam's holiest site
as a backdrop to call for unity across the Muslim world in the fight
against terrorism.
In Trump's Sunday speech,
which is the centerpiece of his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, he will
address 50 Muslim and Arab leaders and urge them to "drive out the
terrorists from your places of worship." That's according to a draft of
the speech obtained by The Associated Press.
Trump's
presidential campaign was frequently punctuated by bouts of
anti-Islamic rhetoric. He is now poised to soften some of his language
about the Muslim faith.
Though during the
campaign Trump repeatedly stressed the need to say the words "radical
Islamic terrorism," that phrase is not included in the draft.
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