Daily Mail: Tillerson is frozen out in Moscow: Two hours of talks with Putin end with nothing to show as Kremlin refuses to admit Assad gassed his own people - then lectures him on Iraq and Libya
* Putin met with Tillerson just before his departure from Moscow after yo-yoing the American diplomat around for days
* But no pictures have been released of the two-hour encounter in a caluclated snub
* US and Russia continued to disagree about Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons on Wednesday
* Kremlin is insisting that the Syrian dictator did not gas his own people and the Trump administration is asserting that he did
* Talks got off to an icy start - Tillerson's counterpart Sergey Lavrov wanted to know the 'real intentions' of the US
* Russia has questions about America's 'very ambiguous' and contradictory' ideas
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is leaving Moscow empty-handed following two hours of frosty talks with Vladimir Putin - without even a snapshot with the Russian president to show for it.
Instead he got a public lecture on America's past actions in the Middle East from Putin's foreign minister, and reminded of Sean Spicer's Hitler gaffe by a Russian reporter.
And he could not even get agreement that Bashar al-Assad's used chemical weapons, with the Kremlin insisting that the Syrian dictator did not gas his own people and the Trump official asserting that he did.
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WNU Editor: No pictures of Putin and Tillerson together. No agreement on any of the big issues. A complete absence of trust. And no way forward to lessen tensions. This is not what I call a success.
U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson Ends His Trip To Moscow -- News Roundup
Tensions High as US, Russia Call for Syrian Chemical Weapons Probe -- VOA
Putin finally meets Tillerson in Moscow -- RT
Tillerson and Putin Find Little More Than Disagreement in Meeting -- New York Times
Tillerson meets Putin: Some agreements, but mostly divisions -- USA Today
Putin says trust erodes under Trump, Moscow icily receives Tillerson -- Reuters
Lavrov-Tillerson meeting round-up -- TASS
Tillerson faces off with Russia's foreign minister in tense press conference following Syria strike -- Business Insider
Trump says US-Russia relations may be at "all-time low" -- AP
Trump: US 'Not Getting Along With Russia At All' -- Sputnik
Trump's hopes for warmer relations with Russia in deep freeze -- Stephen Collinson, CNN
Rex Tillerson feels the chill in Moscow -- Nahal Toosi, Politico
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