Trump had secret chat

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a previously undisclosed conversation during a dinner for G20 leaders at a summit earlier this month in Germany.

The two leaders held a formal two-hour bilateral meeting on July 7 in which Mr Trump later said Mr Putin denied allegations that he directed efforts to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election.

Mr Trump’s interactions with the Russian leader were scrutinised closely because of those allegations, which have dominated his first six months in the White House, and Mr Trump’s comments as a presidential candidate praising the former KGB spy.