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#BREAKING Putin, Biden arrive at Geneva summit venue

#BREAKING Biden and Putin shake hands, kicking off Geneva summit

#UPDATE US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin shook hands in Geneva on Wednesday at the start of their first summit, with tensions at their highest in years

#BREAKING Biden starts Putin meeting saying 'always better to meet face to face'

#BREAKING As Biden summit starts, Putin says hopes 'meeting will be productive'

#UPDATE US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin sounded upbeat Wednesday as they sat down for talks at a plush villa in Geneva for their first summit

#UPDATE President Joe Biden pressed counterpart Vladimir Putin at their Geneva summit on Wednesday to replace the combustible US-Russian standoff with a more "predictable" relationship between "two great powers" capable of agreeing to disagree u.afp.com/UBcg #BidenPutin

#BREAKING Biden, Putin finish Geneva summit: White House

#BREAKING US, Russia agree to return ambassadors: Putin

#BREAKING Putin says talks with Biden were 'constructive'

#BREAKING Russia, US agree to 'consultations on cybersecurity': Putin

#BREAKING Putin says 'may be compromises' with US on prisoner exchange

#UPDATE "The conversation was absolutely constructive", Vladimir Putin told reporters, adding that the sides had agreed for their ambassadors to return in a small gesture of healing in their strained relations