Summary
President Donald Trump will learn this week whether he gets a second chance to make a first impression as he returns to Europe and has his first encounter with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Trump is leaving Washington for Europe Wednesday.
The Trump-Putin encounter will be one of at least nine meetings the U.S. president will have with foreign leaders while in Hamburg for a G-20 summit of industrial and emerging market nations beginning Friday.
Previewing the trip, White House officials said Trump would reiterate the U.S. commitment to NATO's Article 5, which says an attack on one member is an attack on all – something he didn't do at NATO headquarters in Brussels during his first overseas trip but eventually endorsed last month.
Trump has expressed hopes of improved relations with the global power.
Trump's overseas trip will be his first since he announced that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate agreement, to the regret of a number of world leaders who had lobbied Trump to remain in the 2015 pact.
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