
Rubio meets with Russia's Lavrov in Malaysia
The two top diplomats went into the meeting at a regional conference of Southeast Asian states in Kuala Lumpur, AFP reporters saw, hours after Moscow unleashed its second major attack on Ukraine in as many days.

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