Both Jakarta and Hanoi seek to preserve strategic autonomy while navigating an increasingly polarized international environment. BRICS may offer a third path.

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has sent a letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, formally expressing the city’s interest in hosting the bloc’s headquarters

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that BRICS was not an anti-American group and that it will not listen to "language of threats and manipulation".

A summit of leaders from the BRICS group of major emerging economies kicks off in Brazil Sunday – but without the top leader of its most powerful member.

At their latest summit in Brazil, the BRICS nations once again portrayed themselves as an emerging geopolitical heavyweight. Yet the internal contradictions within this expanding group remain plain to see.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that the BRICS group is not an anti-American group and that it will not listen to "language of threats and manipulation".

The world has changed and the western-led postwar order is over, or so the Brics bloc of developing nations insists. Equally clear at the group’s annual summit in Rio de Janeiro this week was that the Brics have changed too — and not for the better. The new model is bigger, less coherent and far less likely to achieve any of its putative goals.

Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes says bid, which would centralise Brics offices, would boost city’s global standing and draw investment and jobs.