Matt Spetalnick: Barack Obama

Barack Obama: ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - A brief photo-op on Thursday between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin spoke volumes, limited mostly to tight smiles and a businesslike handshake between U.S. and Russian leaders bitterly divided by the crisis in Syria, according to Reuters. Obama and Putin have never had anything close to personal chemistry, and there was hardly any on display as the armored limousine carrying the U.S. president pulled up to where Putin waited to greet arriving world leaders and By Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland Their sparse encounter outside a tsarist palace in St. Petersburg at the start of a Group of 20 G20 economic summit underscored the dismal state of U.S.-Russia relations, with tensions mounting over Obama's threatened military strike against Syria, a Russian ally. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.