Ankara’s cooperation with the economic group does not contradict its membership in the US-led military bloc, Mark Rutte has said

He hopes this week’s summit will spark a sanctions-busting big bang.

Turkey’s application to join the BRICS bloc, led by Russia and China, is sparking concerns over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's commitment to NATO. The move, by a member of the world’s most powerful military alliance, highlights the geostrategic shifts straining the post-war order at a time of heightened international tensions.

Turkey has submitted a request to join the BRICS group of major emerging market nations, the spokesman of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party said Tuesday. 

Relations between Moscow and Ulaanbaatar are developing in all areas, the Russian leader has said

Vladimir Putin has said cooperation between Beijing and Moscow does not pose a threat to other nations

The first meeting between Ethiopian and Russian representatives in Moscow was welcomed by the African country

Newly elected President Javier Milei had previously expressed his reluctance to join the bloc

The BRICS groups of nations called for a truce in Gaza during a virtual meeting, during which South Africa accused Israel of 'war crimes' and acts 'tantamount to genocide.'

Following the Johannesburg summit, the continent will become a major focus for the organization

Leaders of some of the developing world's most important economies turned Wednesday to the main business of their summit in South Africa, a day after a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the gathering an anti-Western tinge that officials had been hoping to avoid. 

The Chinese leader has flown out to South Africa for the summit but asked his commerce minister to read out his remarks.

Putin won't attend BRICS summit this week because he could face arrest over alleged war crimes in Ukraine

Officials from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gather in Johannesburg on Tuesday for a three-day BRICS summit, a five-nation club comprising 40% of the world’s population and more than 25 percent of global GDP that positions itself as an economic counterweight to the West. Almost 15 years on from the group’s founding, FRANCE 24 takes a look at the BRICS nations in numbers and their relative weight in the global economy.

Global South versus Global North? The BRICS summit in South Africa is set to be all about the group's plans to expand and how to deal with sanctions.

Officials are reportedly discussing the idea of moving the upcoming summit to China due to ICC charges against Vladimir Putin

Iran and Argentina see potential in Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa bloc

Indian PM makes reference to neighbour as ‘nurturing a mindset that terrorism is justified’ in speech to world leaders in Goa