United Nations HQ in New York. Photo: wiki commons.

Politico – President Barack Obama, who’s under fire from Republicans and some in the press for failing to schedule the usual leader-to-leader meetings during his United Nations visit this week, did meet briefly on Tuesday with the president of Yemen and the secretary-general of the United Nations, according to the White House.

Obama dropped in on a meeting Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan was having with Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi at the U.N., Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters on Air Force One as Obama returned to Washington Tuesday afternoon.

Read full story.