JOHANNESBURG/BERLIN - Germany said on Thursday that it would seek to persuade Donald Trump to reverse his decision to exclude South Africa from next year's G20 summit in Florida following the U.S. president's false claims that the country mistreated its white minority. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The president did not attend this year’s annual gathering in South Africa, which has been a frequent target of his attacks.

President Donald Trump said that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year in Miami and will "stop all payments and subsidies" to the country over its treatment of a US government representative at the event.