EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five biggest stories of the day.

1. #MEETING: US president Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin had their first face-to-face talks today on the sidelines of the G20 summit.

2. #NOT GUILTY: Irish footballer Jeff Hendrick has been acquitted of committing violent disorder during a nightclub row in Dublin city four years ago.

3. #DISCLOSURES: The chairman of Charleton Tribunal has said he was “not impressed with the notion” that the onus was on a social worker to follow-up when she did not receive a reply from a senior garda to a query about allegations of sexual abuse.

4. #UNFAIR: Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said he feels that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is “being unfair to gardaí” following a TV interview last night.

5. #MICROSOFT: The US tech giant has said that it is planning to cut thousands of jobs worldwide – but that the effect on Irish jobs “will be minimal”.

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