By FRANCE24
China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders arrived Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies that the Kremlin hopes to turn into a rallying point for defying Western influence in global affairs. Story by Emerald Maxwell and Delano D’Souza.
Source: Putin hosts Global South leaders at BRICS summit meant to counterbalance Western clout



