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• Brics group looks to expand at summit despite divisions among key members

  21-08-2023 20:01
  
  Experts say India concerned about expansion and any overt anti-west turn as leaders fly into South AfricaLeaders from developing countries representing almost half the world’s population including China and Russia are to meet in South Africa for a key summit aimed at reinforcing their alliance as a counterweight to the west.The Brics grouping summit in Johannesburg, which starts on Tuesday, will be hosted by the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, and brings together the prime minist
  
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• Murder of Black community activist, 72, in Brazil prompts calls for action

  21-08-2023 12:05
  
  María Bernadete Pacífico, whose son was shot dead in 2017, killed by gunmen at her home in BahiaHuman rights organisations in Brazil are clamouring for justice following the murder of a Black community activist who had been receiving threats.María Bernadete Pacífico, a community and religious leader in the Pitanga dos Palmares quilombo – an Afro-Brazilian settlement of descendants of escaped slaves in the north-east state of Bahia – was killed on Thursday
  
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