<|endoftext|> weekend, a presidential spokesman said.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin��s spokesman, told Russian news agency TASS that the two could ��quite likely�� meet before a Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 7-8. He said he hoped the leaders�� aides will "waste no time" in preparing.
Trump and Putin spoke Saturday in their first phone call since Trump became president. Peskov said was a ��good, constructive conversation.��
In a statement after the call, the Kremlin said the two ��had a detailed discussion of pressing international issues.��
They included fighting terrorism, the situation in the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Iran��s nuclear program and the Korean Peninsula, the Russian government said.
��The discussion also touched upon the main aspects of the Ukrainian crisis. The sides agreed to build up partner cooperation in these and other areas,�� the statement said.
��During the conversation, both sides expressed their readiness to make active joint efforts to stabilise and develop Russia-US cooperation on a constructive, equitable and mutually beneficial basis,�� the Kremlin added.
Peskov said that Putin and Trump did not discuss sanctions. He added: "We have seen a readiness to solve difficult problems through dialogue, which President Putin has long been calling for and unfortunately in previous years did not find a response (to)," Reuters reported.
Putin and Trump have expressed a desire to have a closer relationship, after the Obama administration imposed sanctions against Russian businesses and individuals for Russia��s alleged attempts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election to Trump's advantage, backing of separatist forces in Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea.
Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2jJXHlC<|endoftext|>Jamie visits the poorest areas of Jordan and Lebanon and co-ordinates with local and international NGOs to provide laughter and relief for refugees in psychosocial and educational support programmes.
A British magician has been putting a smile on the faces of Syrian child refugees in Lebanon by performing magic shows for them after fasts are broken this Ramadan.
Magician Jamie Balfour launched the Magic for Smiles initiative, which has led him to tour Lebanon and Jordan to provide free games in the Syrian refugee camps.
In a trip co-ordinated with local Lebanese non-governmental-organisation (NGO) Makhzoumi Foundation, which specialises in personal development, Jamie has been giving free performances to the refugees, shows them tricks and even speaks to them in the pockets of Arabic he has learned along the way.
Jamie visits the poorest areas of both countries and co-ordinates with local and international NGOs to provide laughter and relief for refugees in psychosocial and educational support programmes.
Magic has a high recreational value and helps relieve stress on children who have gone through traumatic situations
"Magic has a high recreational value and helps relieve stress on children who have gone through traumatic situations, especially refugees," Jamie says.
"Magic also gives children the ability to analyse knowledge and increase their focus when they try to figure out the trick, which happens all the time,�� he added.
Jamie��s initiative is self-financed, but he has launched a donation platform to help him sustain his work and continue to put smiles on the faces of traumatised children.<|endoftext|>Managers at five banks in the western French city of Brest came to work this week to find that someone had tried to make a rather foul deposit.
In total 17 machines had their cash slots force fed fecal matter by a 53-year-old suspect who told police after his arrest on Wednesday that he��d done it as a protest against ��The System,�� French paper Le Télégramme reported.
The suspect is due in court later this spring on vandalism charges.
Police said he��d been collecting faeces for a couple days, though they didn��t specify the source, before he scooped it into the machines with a spatula. Apparently the whole episode was caught on surveillance cameras, which allowed police to identify the suspect.
The poo protest was apparently not his first attack against the ��The System��. The suspect has also charged with spraying computers at a French post office with urine.
A protest in the same vein, though on much larger scale, came last month when someone dumped a truck load of dung in front of the French parliament with a slogan calling for President François Hollande to resign.<|endoftext|>Introducing Jupinx
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