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Expansion and a common currency on agenda at BRICS summit

(From L to R) Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a photo during the 2023 BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 23, 2023. © Gianluigi Guercia, AFP

Leaders of some of the developing world's most important economies turned Wednesday to the main business of their summit in South Africa, a day after a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the gathering an anti-Western tinge that officials had been hoping to avoid. 

The BRICS group of emerging economies made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is debating whether to expand the bloc and allow new members more than a decade after it came into existence.

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