exclusively focus on the past – as the world’s two largest nuclear powers, we must get along!”

President Barack Obama sought a reset of U.S.-Russia relations early in his administration. But the situation soured after Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, which prompted Russia’s expulsion from the former Group of Eight, now the Group of Seven. The U.S. has since heightened sanctions on Moscow and expelled Russian diplomats for interference in the 2016 election and following the poisoning in the U.K. of a former Russian spy and his daughter, an act Western countries say was likely carried out by Moscow.

Ahead of the news conference, the two leaders met one-on-one for more than two hours before being joined by their advisers for another two hours, discussing issues including arms control, SyriaDetained Saudi woman arrives in Canada to begin new life

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Toronto: Tired but smiling, an 18-year-old Saudi runaway who said she feared death if deported back home arrived Saturday in Canada, which had offered her asylum in a case that attracted global attention after she mounted a social media campaign.

"This is Rahaf Alqunun, a very brave new Canadian," Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said arm-in-arm with the Saudi woman in Toronto's airport.

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun smiled broadly as she exited an airport arrival door sporting a Canada zipper hoodie and a UN High Commissioner for Refugees hat, capping a dramatic week that saw her flee her family while visiting Kuwait and before flying to Bangkok. From there, she barricaded herself in an airport hotel to avoid deportation and tweeted about her