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Turkey’s application to join the BRICS bloc, led by Russia and China, is sparking concerns over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's commitment to NATO. The move, by a member of the world’s most powerful military alliance, highlights the geostrategic shifts straining the post-war order at a time of heightened international tensions.

Lord Jim O’Neill says small businesses could lose out from merger of local government schemes to create large fund

Officials from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gather in Johannesburg on Tuesday for a three-day BRICS summit, a five-nation club comprising 40% of the world’s population and more than 25 percent of global GDP that positions itself as an economic counterweight to the West. Almost 15 years on…

Jim O’Neill coined the term BRIC when he worked at Goldman Sachs in 2001, and he’s blasting the idea of a BRICS currency. “It’s embarrassing almost.”

Jim O’Neill says OBR should be given new powers to emphasise economic benefits of public investment

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban has its first day in court Wednesday — but it isn’t the judge’s first time presiding over a case on abortion.

Former culture secretary says prime ministerial diaries ‘are frequently wrong’

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman announced Thursday her office has closed its investigation into North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, over an allegedly false campaign ad for which her office was preparing to indict the high-profile Democratic official last year.