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  • US President Donald Trump has reiterated his threat to impose a 10% tariff on BRICS nations, claiming that the economic bloc would quickly dissolve if it were to form in a meaningful way.

  • Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says the recent dispute between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump highlights a chaotic global landscape where foreign policy decisions do not occur in isolation.

  • Iran expects a major boom in trade ties with members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) after the country gained observer status in the bloc and just months before the two sides enter into a free trade agreement.

  • Ali Bigdeli, an international affairs expert, has said that Europeans generally do not want to get involved in regional equations and conflicts, and that is why only some of the big and prominent European countries adopt their own position regarding the Middle East and Israel's actions.

  • The Cuban government has made an official request to join the BRICS bloc as a partner country in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, since Moscow currently chairs the association.

  • European foreign ministers will hold emergency talks Monday on the situation in Lebanon, Brussels said, as the Israeli regime presses on with air strikes after assassinating Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

  • Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Akbar Ahmadian, who is attending the 14th summit of BRICS high-ranking officials for security matters in Russia, has called on the bloc members to help stop the crimes being committed by the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip and other occupied areas of Palestine.

  • Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has denounced the European Union as a “disgrace” following the meddlesome remarks of the bloc’s foreign policy chief about the protests in the South American country in the aftermath of its presidential election.

  • The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry Kanaani addressed a meeting of the BRICS foreign ministries’ spokespersons elaborated on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s proposals on the role of the bloc’s member states in the media and information dissemination in achieving objectives like establishing a just and multipolar world.

  • NATO tapped outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Wednesday to become the bloc’s next secretary-general who will replace Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg from October 1.