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Qatar's prime minister makes unscheduled G7 stop in Paris to brief allies after Trump talks

Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, is making an unscheduled stop at the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Paris today to brief European powers and Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports. The stop follows his talks with Trump at the White House on Monday 9 November.

According to Reuters, he is scheduled to meet the ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Saudi Arabia. They had already been invited to broader G7 talks on the situation in the Middle East.

France's foreign ministry says ministers will discuss

"in particular the Iranian crisis and its security and economic repercussions"

Reuters and The New Arab report that Monday's meeting was Trump's first with a foreign leader since the Republican midterm losses. The New Arab reports that Trump said afterwards the war is militarily "effectively over", while keeping open the possibility of new strikes.

No outcome of the Paris meeting has been reported so far.

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