
Foreign ministers from the G20 top economies have gathered in South Africa’s Johannesburg, amid geopolitical rifts, tensions over the Ukraine war and with the top US diplomat a notable absentee.
The G20, a grouping of 19 countries as well as the European Union and the African Union that represent some 85 percent of global GDP and three-quarters of trade, is deeply divided on key issues from Russia’s war in Ukraine to climate change.