World3:11BRICS leaders are meeting in New Delhi on Saturday for a summit centred on trade, investment and global conflicts. The bloc is seeking a larger role in shaping the global agenda for emerging and developing countries while facing pressure from wars and tensions with the United States.
World6:52Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in New Delhi for the BRICS summit, where leaders are confronting challenges involving global trade, energy and security. India-China relations and the Iran war’s effects on global markets are also in focus.
World0:57Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral meetings with the leaders of Ethiopia, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam as they arrived in New Delhi for the 2026 BRICS Summit.
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World1:35Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in New Delhi for the BRICS summit, marking his first visit to India in seven years. He is expected to hold bilateral talks with Narendra Modi as the two countries try to repair ties damaged by the deadly 2020 Galwan Valley clashes, which killed at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers and led to a military standoff and deep diplomatic freeze.
World2:23India is hosting the BRICS summit for the fourth time at a difficult moment globally and within the bloc. Founded by Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2006, BRICS has expanded to 11 members, representing nearly half the world’s population, 40 percent of global GDP and 26 percent of global trade.
PoliticsIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in New Delhi before this weekend’s BRICS summit, seeking to strengthen their longstanding military and trade ties. Modi gave Putin a Russian translation of an ancient Tamil text that promotes virtues including non-violence. The summit is expected to address the war in Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East.
WorldLeaders from China, Russia and Iran are among those attending this weekend’s 11-nation BRICS summit in New Delhi. As the Trump administration jolts global trade, the US war with Iran has disrupted energy supplies and tested the bloc’s cohesion. Tehran wants condemnation of Washington, while the UAE and Saudi Arabia have faced Iranian attacks.
Politics1:34New Delhi will host a weekend BRICS gathering organized by India, with leaders representing major emerging economies.
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WorldAhead 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.
World4:16India is hosting the BRICS summit as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks common ground amid the wars in Ukraine and Iran. He held bilateral talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Iran’s leader, with the Modi-Putin meeting reportedly focused on trade, energy and defence. A meeting with China’s Xi Jinping is also being arranged for tomorrow.
WorldWorld leaders gathered in Bishkek for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s 25th anniversary summit as Kyrgyzstan concluded its year as chair, highlighting the bloc’s expanding global role.
PoliticsRussian President Vladimir Putin met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday before the BRICS weekend summit in New Delhi. The talks came as both countries seek to strengthen longstanding ties while India deepens strategic and economic relationships with Western countries.
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Politics8:04Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit India this weekend for the BRICS summit, his first trip there since 2019. Antara Ghosal Singh of the Observer Research Foundation says progress has been made on border issues, but economic ties between the two countries remain difficult.
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World11:02BRICS leaders are due to meet in India this weekend as the group confronts divisions over the ongoing Middle East conflict. Analyst Sarang Shidore says the summit could give Iran and the United Arab Emirates, both members, a “safe space” to engage and better understand each other’s positions after Iranian attacks targeted the UAE.
WorldChina’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and India’s Narendra Modi are among the leaders attending Shanghai Cooperation Organization summits, despite their often limited concrete results. Experts discuss how the 25-year-old group has become a platform for geopolitical signaling and why more countries want to join.
WorldChinese President Xi Jinping is visiting Egypt on his first Middle East trip in four years. As US partners in the region reassess their strategic relationships over the US-Israeli war against Iran, Beijing is seeking greater influence. Analyst H.A. Hellyer describes Egypt’s and others’ approach as a “diversification of relationships.”
WorldEgypt welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to Cairo as ties between the two countries deepen. Regional turmoil following the Iran war is prompting US allies to reconsider their security partnerships.
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World5:01Chinese President Xi Jinping offered to help protect maritime shipping in the Middle East during talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo. The meeting came amid turmoil caused by the US war on Iran and marked Xi’s first visit to Egypt in a decade.
WorldEgyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping in Cairo on Wednesday, beginning a visit that underscores Cairo’s strengthening ties with Beijing. The trip comes as regional turmoil leads U.S. allies to reconsider longstanding security relationships.
WorldChinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Egypt this week appeared to be a routine chance for the two countries to deepen economic and diplomatic ties. But the meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi also reflected China’s effort to build an extensive relationship with a key US ally in the Middle East and expand its influence in a rapidly changing region.
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WorldChinese President Xi Jinping is visiting Egypt for the first time in ten years. Talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi are expected to address security and the economic fallout from conflict in the Middle East. The programme also covers China’s dissent over G20 action on trade imbalances and restored access to Tibet’s disaster zone.
WorldChinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for his first visit to the Middle East since the region was engulfed by a series of conflicts. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a military honor guard and officials welcomed him at the capital’s international airport.
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WorldAt a summit in Bishkek marking the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s 25th anniversary, China, Russia and Iran urged stronger multilateral cooperation and a multipolar world order. Xi Jinping and Masoud Pezeshkian opposed unilateralism and military blocs, while Vladimir Putin cited more than $400bn in intra-SCO trade and a growing role for national currencies.
WorldChina and Russia say the world is becoming more uncertain and unpredictable. At the latest Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, leaders from China, Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan and other countries discussed security, trade and the future of international cooperation. China expert Eva Seiwert examines how much influence the group actually gives Beijing.