Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
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President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not hold a meeting in Paris this weekend, as previously planned.

Putin told RT France they decided "not to interrupt the schedule" of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the armistice to end World War I. Yuri Ushakov, Putin's foreign affairs adviser, told Russian state television their planned meeting was canceled at the request of the French government. Trump and Putin did shake hands at a ceremony in front of the Arc de Triomphe.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.