The Latest Breaking News from BRICS

Trade tensions in era of Trump tariffs create serious potential risk to global growth, warns Sir Mark Tucker

President Trump expresses skepticism on BRICS creating new currency and threatens tariffs on member nations. Expansion and potential implications discussed.

Countries like Malaysia and Thailand have expressed interest in joining BRICS, seen as a counterweight to the West, in recent years.

US president says levies will restore a sense of ‘fairness’ to trade relations with other countries.

With France fast losing its influence in west Africa’s Sahel region and an unpredictable US president in power, will China fill the vacuum?

During its 16th annual summit in Kazan, Russia, Brics – a group of emerging economies determined to act as a counterweight to the west and to whittle down the influence of global institutions – invited Nigeria and eight other countries to join it as “partner” countries. Nigeria formally accepted the…

President Donald Trump attempted to renew his threat against a bloc of nine nations in case they tried to undermine the US dollar.

Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan hit a brief stumbling block on January 26 when Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, refused to allow two US flights carrying deported Colombian migrants to land. Petro’s complaint was that the US government was treating the migrants like criminals by repatriating them in military planes.

Brics has emerged as a significant international force since 2009 when it was established at a summit in Russia. What began as a five-member group encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is now expanding with the integration of five new members and eight new partner countries. Even more…

Trump wrongly told a reporter: ‘They’re a Brics nation, Spain. Do you know what a Brics nation is? You’ll figure it out’

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirm strong bilateral ties and strategic coordination in a recent video call, emphasi...