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Trump goes soft on poll meddling; Putin says Mueller probe a political game

Trump's apparent concessions to Putin over the elections controversy drew stinging condemnation from across the political divide

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To outrage in Washington, President Donald Trump has lent weight to Russian denials of meddling in US elections at his inaugural summit with Vladimir Putin, where the pair championed a fresh start in relations between the world's leading nuclear powers.    

The US and Russian presidents came out of their meeting in Helsinki expressing a desire to talk again on global challenges, after discussing an array of issues from Syria, Ukraine and China to trade tariffs and the size of their nuclear arsenals. 

There were indications of an arrangement to work together and with Israel to support a ceasefire in southern

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