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Trump and Putin plan November meeting in Paris

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US president Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he plans to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in the margins the 100th anniversary of the WWI armistice on 11 November in Paris. Trump has announced the United States will pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty because he believes Russia has violated the agreement. Beijing's growing arsenal also played into the decision to withdraw, he told press.

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