WorldXi, Modi set to meet as India hosts BRICS summit this weekend

Ahead of this weekend’s BRICS summit in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding talks with Russian and Iranian leaders. South Korean and Iranian diplomats have voiced concern over developments in the Strait of Hormuz, amid reports that Iran-backed Houthi rebels seized an island at the Bab-el-Mandeb entrance. In Hong Kong, three more activists received prison terms of up to seven years over vigils marking the 1989 Tiananmen incident.