LONDON – Ambitions by the BRICS group to take on a greater climate leadership role, building on the success of last month’s United Nations nature talks, depend on the countries overcoming fractious ...

A family photograph with BRICS Members during the 17th BRICS Summit at Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, July 6, 2025. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of India The BRICS countries (henceforth BRICS+) have ...

Malaysia embodies the values that underpin the BRICS grouping of emerging economies and could be a natural fit for future full membership, Russian deputy prime minister Alexey Overchuk said today.

The last two summits of BRICS countries have raised questions about the coalition’s identity and purpose. This began to come into focus at the summit hosted by South Africa in 2023, and more acutely ...

[JOHANNESBURG] Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is convening a virtual meeting of Brics leaders next Monday (Sep 8) to discuss US President Donald Trump’s trade policy, according to four sources ...

With the U.S. withdrawing from international organizations and alienating other countries with tariffs, the 10-nation BRICS grouping of major emerging economies has been gradually stepping in to fill ...

Both Jakarta and Hanoi seek to preserve strategic autonomy while navigating an increasingly polarized international environment. BRICS may offer a third path. In June 2025, Vietnam was granted BRICS ...

Towards the dawn of the new millennium, the rise of the Global South ushered in a new geo political order. Initially coined as BRIC by Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs in 2001 to depict the rise of ...

BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sept 8 doubled down on efforts to pitch China as a defender of the international order and free trade at a meeting of Brics, but divisions remain among the 11 ...

BRICS ministers expressed concern over rising tariffs, protectionism, and unilateral trade measures inconsistent with WTO rules. Meeting chaired by India stressed multilateral reform, counterterrorism ...