President Barack Obama and Russian President President Vladimir Putin, bottom right, attend a luncheon hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon center, Monday, at United Nations headquarters. (AP/Andrew Harnik)Vladimir Putin played it cool, Barack Obama was earnest but firm and Iran’s president walked in smiling. World leaders glided through the opening day of a U.N. gathering Monday that aims to wrestle with the globe’s biggest crises — a historic flood of refugees, the rise of threats like the Islamic State group and the conflict in Syria.The U.N. secretary-general for the first time called for the civil war in Syria to …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
