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Officials present for the first face-to-face meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin offered differing accounts of what was discussed.
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The United States and Russia that a cease-fire in Syria will go into effect on Sunday. Officials present for the first face-to-face meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany of what was discussed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson if the U.S. policy of “peaceful pressure” on North Korea fails, “we don’t have Guantanamo Bay in a show of support for the detention center. The U.S. economy 222,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate increased slightly to 4.4 percent.

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