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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are to meet for the first time today amid violent protest in Hamburg as the two leaders hold a full bilateral meeting, which will include a photocall and public comments. The timing of the meeting, which according to the White House’s schedule will start at 2.45pm, would mean the two leaders would be unlikely to take part in the working session on energy and climate change. Russia’s news agency Interfax said the meeting was at 3pm, UK time, which might allow them to attend the start.

Berlin, Jul 4 (AFP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s scientist-husband will take leaders’ spouses at a G20 summit, including Melania Trump, to a climate research centre amid a bitter row over global warming. Joachim Sauer, who usually shuns publicity, will take the visiting dignitaries sightseeing through Hamburg on a river cruise and to the spectacular new Elbphilharmonie concert house. But the quantum chemist has also insisted they stop off at the German Climate Computing Centre — an itinerary point sure to put the spotlight on the US First Lady after President Donald Trump in June pulled out of the 2015 Paris...