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Macron Opens A 'Demanding' Dialogue With Putin In France

The newly elected French president is hosting his Russian counterpart at the Palace of Versailles on Monday. On the docket for the leaders: Ukraine, Syria and mending their countries' tattered ties.
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, arrive at the Palace of Versailles near Paris on Monday. It's the leaders' first meeting since Macron came to office. / FRANCOIS MORI / Getty Images

Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET

Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had a whole lot of ground to cover Monday: Between the long-standing conflict in eastern Ukraine, the six-year-old civil war in Syria and their own countries' tattered ties, the Russian president's stop at the Palace of Versailles promised plenty of difficult topics

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