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President Trump is in Qatar for a second day.
NPR's Ahab Atrawi says the president is meeting with U.S. troops stationed at a base there after having announced the Gulf state has signed a large contract with Boeing.
The White House says Qatar's order of up to 210 Boeing airplanes could support a million jobs in the U.S.
It's business deals like this that brought Trump to the Gulf this week,
where big defense and tech deals were also inked in Saudi Arabia.
But looming over the trip is also what Trump has yet to achieve,
a ceasefire in Gaza that ends Israel's offensive and releases hostages held by Hamas.
Arab states have rejected plans to permanently displace Palestinians outside the territory.
Meanwhile, Israel's planning a major ground offensive to take territory and push Palestinians south.
Aya Batrawi, NPR News, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not taking part in today's peace talks in Turkey.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Istanbul in hopes that Putin would attend direct talks about ending their war.
Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman.