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The recent BRICS summit in Brazil revealed a loose alliance of emerging powers becoming more complex — and perhaps more consequential. For BRICS, heft matters.

BRICS leaders are meeting in Brazil for a two-day summit. But China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin are skipping the gathering.

China, Russia, and other non-Western countries are building a viable alternative to the U.S.-led world order.

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As BRICS leaders meet in Rio, the growing bloc seeks to push for global reform, climate action, and economic cooperation, despite internal differences and global tensions.

Member countries of the Brics trading bloc seem to have backed down from their rather lofty ideal of establishing their own ...

Another Bric in the wall. The grouping called the bombing of Iran, one of its new faces, a “blatant breach of international law” but didn’t mention the US or Israel by name – an indicator of the ...

The original BRICS group gathered leaders from Brazil, Russia, India and China at its first summit in 2009. The bloc later added South Africa and last year included Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia ...

Xi Jinping skips BRICS Summit for the first time amid speculation of political turbulence in China and divisions between ...

The Brics acronym was coined by Lord Jim O’Neill, then chief economist at Goldman Sachs, in a 2001 paper about the power of the world’s emerging economies. Brazil, Russia, India and China later ...