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HELSINKI (AP) — Sweden is fighting its most serious wildfires in decades — including blazes above the Arctic Circle — prompting the government to seek help from the military, hundreds of volunteers and other European nations.

US President Donald Trump has said he holds Russian President Vladimir Putin personally responsible for Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

"Just like I consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. So certainly as the leader of a country you would have to hold him responsible, yes," President Trump told CBS News in an interview.

Putin assessed that relations between Russia and the United States are "in a difficult state," but hopes that the two sides will now understand each other better.

Trump pointed out that relations between the two countries have never been worse, but that "everything has changed" after the talks.

As Athens seeks to defuse tensions with Moscow over its expulsion last week of Russian diplomats, the prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, brought the issue back to the fore on Monday, accusing Greek businessmen "sympathetic to the Russian cause" of paying large sums of money to his country's citizens to commit acts of violence ahead of the referendum on the

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump will meet in Finland today for their first one-on-one summit. Relations between their two countries are at lows not seen since the Cold War, so the pair will have their work cut out to bring anything positive out of the meeting.

Putin talks up anti-hacking prowess

Before coming to Europe, U.S. President Donald Trump raised eyebrows by predicting that July 16's historic Helsinki summit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would be the "easiest" stage of his tour.

Belgrade-based daily Blic writes this, and adds that "the two leaders should reach an agreement on that issue."

The newspaper claims, citing diplomatic sources, that this is "the plan of the Serbian leadership and President Aleksandar Vucic."

A Finnish woman who underwent hormonal therapy has become the nation's first transgender man to give birth, local media said Wednesday, triggering controversy as laws require infertility to change gender, AFP reports.

Twenty-odd European cities are currently experimenting with autonomous vehicles in public transport. Other cities are carrying out studies that will most likely lead to concrete tests within the next five years./.roboticsbusinessreview.com

In a statement on Wednesday, former socialist prime minister Costas Simitis said Athens should urge European Union officials to enforce measures to protect Greece from Turkey which has become increasingly aggressive in recent weeks.