Deep rifts among G20 diplomats, including from China and Russia, prompt U.S. to ditch group photo

The top diplomats from the Group of 20 largest world economies, including envoys from Russia and China, are meeting in Atlanta as they face deep rifts over multiple wars and other global crises that threaten international security and trade. Those rifts prompted the United States to scrap plans for a group photo with participants at the G20 foreign ministers meeting after several European diplomats objected to being photographed with Russia’s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, and threatened to walk out of it, U.S. officials said. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is chairing the gathering on Friday and Saturday that will…