UNITED NATIONS, United States – Russian President Vladimir Putin has stolen the spotlight at the United Nations with a swaggering push on the Syria crisis as he tried to shake off Western isolation over Ukraine.In his first speech to the UN General Assembly in a decade, Putin on Monday called for a broad UN-backed coalition to fight Islamic State (IS) jihadists before sitting down to talks he called “constructive, business-like and surprisingly open” with his US rival Barack Obama. …read more
Source: AsiaOne
