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Global South must become a 'rule shaper': PM Modi at Brics summit
Leaders from Brics member and partner countries are gathering in the capital to discuss resilience, cooperation and ways to shield developing economies from the impact of global conflicts
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Brics Summit 2026: What to expect from Day 1 as leaders meet in Delhi today
From PM Modi's meeting with Xi Jinping and other key bilateral talks to the closed-door Brics session, here is the agenda for Day 1 of the summit in New Delhi
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Russia faces over 30,000 sanctions: Putin condemns 'ugly' trade tactics
Speaking at the Brics Business Forum in New Delhi, the Russian president criticised economic coercion, trade restrictions and the threat of secondary sanctions
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Brics 2026: Identify 10 trade obstacles to be removed, PM tells industry
Brics leaders call for deeper financial integration, greater intra-group trade and a new investment platform to mobilise private capital for infrastructure projects
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Brics 2026: Modi, Putin discuss $100 bn trade target by 2030, defence ties
Modi and Putin reviewed bilateral trade and defence cooperation, with both sides seeking to expand economic ties and achieve $100 billion in bilateral trade by 2030
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Putin says Brics not against anyone, vows to scale up ties with India
Putin said Russia was ready to work with partners on infrastructure and logistics projects, including the Arctic Transport Corridor and North-South Transport Corridor, as well as cooperation in tech
Brics Summit: PM Modi, Putin hold bilateral talks on trade, defence
Dmitry Peskov said both sides are also exploring BrahMos missile upgrades, and Moscow remains committed to fulfilling its remaining S-400 system deliveries
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Brics Summit 2026 agenda: India-China bilateral meeting among key events
Hosted by India under its 2026 Brics chairship, the two-day summit will mark the culmination of India's year-long leadership of the grouping
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Russian Prez Vladimir Putin arrives in New Delhi to attend Brics summit
It will be his first in-person participation at a Brics summit outside Russia since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022
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Putin wants Ukraine peace deal, but feud with Zelenskyy blocking it: Trump
Trump said Russia's president is willing to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war but argued that deep hostility between Putin and Zelenskyy remains the biggest barrier to a diplomatic breakthrough
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Kremlin says Ukraine talks with US envoys useful but no breakthrough seen
In televised remarks at the start of the talks, Putin praised Trump's efforts to end the war
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Putin meets Witkoff, Kushner in Moscow to revive stalled Ukraine talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin met US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow as Washington seeks to revive stalled efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Putin pauses strikes on Kyiv for 72 hours as US envoys visit Russia
Washington's push to end the fighting, now in its fifth year, has lost momentum as US attention has been focused for the last six months on its war with Iran
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Trump says Putin will not attack NATO territory, downplays Ratcliffe trip
"He's not going to attack a NATO territory," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Earlier in the day, Trump told Axios in a phone interview that there would be no such attack
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Focus on critical minerals during PM Narendra Modi's Uzbekistan visit
Bilateral trade rose from $13 billion in 2021 to $60 billion in 2025, while the trade imbalance widened from $6.6 billion to over $50 billion in Russia's favour
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Vladimir Putin offers to increase Russia's fertiliser exports to India
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was prepared to increase fertiliser supplies to India, while noting that bilateral trade grew in the first half of 2026
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Putin says Ukraine opened 'Pandora's box' with strikes on economic targets
Russian president warns Moscow will target Ukraine's sensitive economic sectors in response to drone strikes on Russian infrastructure, including oil refineries
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Putin wants to draft 300,000 new troops, said Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
Moscow's forces are pressing ahead with an effort to capture the rest of eastern Ukraine's industrialised Donbas region, where its troops have ground forward at what Kyiv says is a great cost
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Putin rejected Ukraine's offer for Black Sea shipping truce, says Zelenskyy
Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks on each other's commercial ships and ports in the Black Sea area, raising fears about the impact on grain supplies to world markets
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Putin says Russia will respond in kind if EU nations seize Russian vessels
TASS cited Putin as saying of those measures: "Of course, this is nothing short of piracy and banditry. And if this is actually put into practice, we will be forced to respond in kind."
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