The meeting at the White House comes after a dramatic summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska that saw the U.S. president welcome the Russian leader to American soil for the first time in nearly a decade and pull back from his threat to slap new sanctions on Moscow,

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian preside...

Fortunately, if belatedly, Mr Trump appears to have recognised that Putin was not a good-faith negotiator.