The leaders of the BRICS nations have called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during an extraordinary summit of the bloc.

Raeisi tells BRICS members that they should move to designate the Israeli regime as a terrorist entity.

Guterres was addressing a summit in Egypt to discuss the ongoing war in Palestine.

Arab leaders have called for renewed peace efforts between Israel and Palestine to end the Israeli occupation and resolve the decades-long conflict between the two sides, amid Tel Aviv’s ongoing onslaught against the Gaza Strip.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi will leave Tehran for Johannesburg on Wednesday to take part in the 15th summit of BRICS heads of state.

Leaders of the BRICS countries are set to meet in South Africa to discuss turning it into a geopolitical bloc to challenge Western dominance.

The Kremlin says the US-led Western states are putting an unprecedented level of pressure on all African countries to sabotage an upcoming Russia-Africa summit.

Foreign Minister Kuleba of Ukraine said NATO member states reached a consensus to drop the requirement for the Membership Action Plan (MAP).

A Russian official says Iran's full membership of the SCO will be at the top of the agenda of the upcoming summit of the organization.

Officials of the Asian Clearing Union meet in Tehran to discuss the use of alternative currencies as substitutes for the US dollar.