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Brics talks end without joint statement, exposing divisions over war in Iran

2026-05-16T02:48:35.000Z
China President Xi Jinping (right) and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Their countries remain at odds over border issues and Brics' strategic direction.
Opinion & Features

Brics+ wall has growing Middle East cracks

2026-05-12T23:00:00.000Z
Driving the impasse is the fact that multiple members of the bloc are on different sides of the conflict, making any hard consensus difficult to wrangle.
International

Iran war shows limits of Brics as India pushed to choose sides

2026-03-25T11:07:00.000Z
The RBI has publicly expressed interest in linking India’s digital rupee with other nations’ CBDCs to expedite cross-border transactions and bolster its currency’s global usage.
Banking & Finance

India’s central bank proposes linking Brics’ digital currencies: sources

2026-01-19T06:23:45.000Z
Brics nations, including India, are pushing ever-more trade and financing into the rupee, rouble, renminbi, real and rand.
Wealth & Investing
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The ‘Rs’ challenging the US dollar: rupee, rouble, renminbi, real and rand

2025-12-09T06:25:26.000Z
Membership in the New Development Bank aligns Indonesia with a strategic partner whose footprint in the archipelago is already enormous.
Opinion & Features

Indonesia’s US$1 billion bet on the Global South

2025-12-05T07:24:37.000Z
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has also sought a higher profile for his country, which maintains a non-aligned foreign policy stance.
Asean Business

Indonesia assigns US$1 billion to Brics-led New Development Bank

2025-12-02T04:34:44.000Z
Above: Port of Oakland, California. “Almost every emerging market or global market understands that we need to do business with the US and China,” said Reema Bhattacharya, head of Asia research at Verisk Maplecroft.
Global Enterprise

Most emerging nations can realign trade to weather US tariffs, report finds

2025-11-13T14:29:28.000Z
US President Donald Trump has threatened harsher duties on countries accused of rerouting Chinese goods.
Asean Business

Tariff tracker: Clock’s up and where Asean countries landed

2025-07-07T04:55:59.000Z
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends an extraordinary virtual summit of the Brics group of nations at the initiative of Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Global Enterprise

Brics leaders denounce protectionism, tariff ‘blackmail’

2025-09-08T16:15:51.000Z
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