Pars Today
Leaders of the BRICS countries are set to meet in South Africa for their annual summit next week to discuss the potential expansion of the group of major emerging economies and turning it into a geopolitical bloc to challenge Western dominance.
New Development Bank (NDB) launched by the BRICS bloc aims to increase local currency fundraising and lending, amid Western sanctions against founding shareholder Russia, South African Finance Ministry has announced.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani says Iran-Brazil cooperation in the international arena will play a pivotal role in promotion of multilateral mechanisms and sustainable stability and security.
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has highlighted the significant role of BRICS in driving global economic growth, saying the Islamic Republic can be a “reliable and influential” partner of the five-member bloc of emerging economies.
Indigenous people took to the streets of Belem, in Brazil to protest , as leaders of eight Amazonian countries met on the first day of the Amazon Summit on Tuesday, August 8.
Governments of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico have called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Palestine and urged the involved sides to prevent the escalation of violence.
Judges in Brazil have barred former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says rich countries must pay for environmental damage inflicted on poorer countries with their "historic debt" to the planet.
At least 11 people have been killed and another 20 remain missing in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone hit the region on Friday, according to the state’s authorities.
Nearly 20 states have sought to join the BRICS group of countries as more nations realize the benefits of joining the economic bloc, according to a senior Russian diplomat.