Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday evening he was boycotting the G20 meeting in South Africa scheduled for later this month over the country's controversial land expropriation law.

JOHANNESBURG — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will skip a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the leading rich and developing nations that starts on Thursday after criticizing host ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend an upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa, he said on Wednesday, days after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off funding to the African ...

Johannesburg — South Africa will host a meeting of foreign ministers from the G20 group of major economies later this week, but the chief diplomat for the world’s largest economy, the U.S., is ...

The first G20 ministerial meeting, a gathering of foreign ministers, is due to begin Feb. 20 in Johannesburg. On Wednesday night, Mr. Rubio said on social media that he will not be there.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said he will snub the meeting of G20 foreign ministers from the world’s biggest economies in Johannesburg this month over South Africa’s attempts to ...

Earlier this month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he was boycotting this week’s Group of 20 meeting, accusing the host, South Africa, of “doing very bad things.” ...

Rubio will skip a G20 meeting after calling host South Africa’s policies anti-American Rubio posted on X this month that he would also not attend the main G20 summit in Johannesburg in November.

The G20 is a group of the world’s 19 major individual economies as well as the EU and African Union. This year marks the first time an African country is in the rotating presidency position of the G20 ...