#BRICS2024 UPDATES : BRICS membership : NATO membership : Countries in the G20 : 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗚𝟳 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻!

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal
🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP

1. 🇮🇱🇺🇸 Missiles strike Tel Aviv as Secretary of State Blinken arrives in Israel, with Hezbollah launching 20 rockets from Lebanon, targeting the city’s suburbs and central Israel, while the IDF reports no injuries so far.

2. 🇺🇸 A senior Pentagon staffer, Ariane Tabatabai, is allegedly identified as the leaker of highly classified documents detailing Israel’s military preparations to strike Iran.

3. 🇱🇧🇮🇱 Hezbollah claims responsibility for an attack on Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea, warning that if they did not reach him previously, “between us and you are days, nights, and the field.”

4. 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Xi Jinping arrives in Russia for the BRICS Summit, signaling China and Russia’s deepening alliance, as Indian PM Modi meets with Putin, and President Maduro also attends summit.

5. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Leaked documents reveal British advisors to Kamala, including the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), plan to “Kill Musk’s Twitter” and coordinate with Democrats on online misinformation laws ahead of the U.S. election.

6. 🇺🇸 An E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sickens 49 people across 10 states, causing 10 hospitalizations and one death, as investigators work to identify the contaminated ingredient.

7. 🇺🇸 Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and his partner Matthew Smith are arrested on sex trafficking charges, accused of running a global operation exploiting men at private events.

8. 🇺🇸 Trump is reportedly set to appear on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast as early as this week.

9. 🇱🇧🇮🇱 An Israeli airstrike hits a residential building in Tayouneh, a crucial junction in Beirut, near landmarks like Horsh Beirut and the Beirut Hippodrome.

10. 🇺🇸Trump addresses the leak of Israel’s military plans, stating that the highly confidential information was leaked by someone on the U.S. side and that the person responsible is a serious concern, calling them “an enemy from within.”

BRICS membership

1. 🇧🇷 Brazil
2. 🇷🇺 Russia
3. 🇮🇳 India
4. 🇨🇳 China
5. 🇿🇦 South Africa
6. 🇪🇬 Egypt
7. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
8. 🇮🇷 Iran
9. 🇦🇪 UAE

Officially invited to join

10. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

Officially applied for membership

11. 🇩🇿 Algeria
12. 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
13. 🇧🇭 Bahrain
14. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
15. 🇧🇾 Belarus
16. 🇧🇴 Bolivia
17. 🇨🇺 Cuba
18. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
19. 🇰🇼 Kuwait
20. 🇲🇾 Malaysia
21. 🇵🇰 Pakistan
22. 🇵🇸 Palestine
23. 🇸🇳 Senegal
24. 🇹🇭 Thailand
25. 🇹🇷 Turkey
26. 🇻🇪 Venezuela
27. 🇾🇪 Yemen
28. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Expressed interest in joining BRICS

29. 🇦🇴 Angola
30. 🇨🇲 Cameroon
31. 🇨🇫 Central African Republic
32. 🇨🇩 DR of the Congo
33. 🇨🇬 Congo
34. 🇬🇭 Ghana
35. 🇳🇬 Nigeria
36. 🇸🇸 South Sudan
37. 🇸🇩 Sudan
38. 🇹🇳 Tunisia
39. 🇺🇬 Uganda
40. 🇨🇴 Colombia
41. 🇸🇻 El Salvador
42. 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
43. 🇵🇪 Peru
44. 🇦🇫 Afghanistan
45. 🇮🇩 Indonesia
46. 🇮🇶 Iraq
47. 🇱🇦 Laos
48. 🇲🇲 Myanmar
49. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
50. 🇸🇾 Syria
51. 🇻🇳 Vietnam

BRICS cities with the most millionaires

🇨🇳 Beijing – 125.6 k
🇨🇳 Shanghai – 123.4 k
🇦🇪 Dubai – 72.5 k
🇮🇳 Mumbai – 58.8 k
🇨🇳 Shenzhen – 50.3 k
🇨🇳 Hangzhou – 31.6 k
🇮🇳 Delhi – 31 k
🇷🇺 Moscow – 30 k
🇨🇳 Guangzhou – 24 k
🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi – 22 k

(Henley & Partners)

Amir Dev
@amirkdev

BRICS now represents 45% of the world’s population, 28% of global GDP, and nearly half of crude oil production. With new members, it’s like a geopolitical party that’s just getting started!

Capt Shashank
@Capt_Cool1
BRICS in Numbers
-45% of World’s population (3.5 billion people)
-33% of Land mass
-28% of world economy ($28.5tn)

10 current Members:
2009: India, Russia, China, Brazil
2011: South Africa
2023: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia

30 request for membership

NATO membership

🇺🇸 United States
🇨🇦 Canada
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇪🇸 Spain
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇳🇴 Norway
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇦🇹 Austria
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇵🇱 Poland
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇲🇹 Malta
🇦🇱 Albania
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
🇲🇪 Montenegro
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇷🇴 Romania
🇬🇷 Greece
🇹🇷 Turkey

Countries in the G20

1. 🇦🇺 Australia
2. 🇦🇷 Argentina
3. 🇧🇷 Brazil
4. 🇨🇦 Canada
5. 🇨🇳 China
6. 🇭🇺 Hungary
7. 🇮🇩 Indonesia
8. 🇮🇳 India
9. 🇯🇵 Japan
10. 🇲🇽 Mexico
11. 🇷🇺 Russia
12. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
13. 🇸🇩 South Africa
14. 🇹🇭 Turkey
15. 🇺🇸 United States
16. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
17. 🇪🇺 European Union (represents 27 member states)

Invited guest countries:

18. 🇮🇱 Israel
19. 🇰🇪 Kenya
20. 🇧🇭 Bahrain

BRICS members by GDP

🇨🇳 China: $17.9 trillion
🇮🇳 India: $3.4 trillion
🇷🇺 Russia: $2.2 trillion
🇧🇷 Brazil: $1.9 trillion
🇸🇦 Saudi: $1.1 trillion
🇦🇪 UAE: $0.5 trillion
🇪🇬 Egypt: $0.48 trillion
🇿🇦 South Africa: $0.41 trillion
🇮🇷 Iran: $0.39 trillion
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: $0.13 trillion

Walid
@walid_saraj
𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗚𝟳 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻!

Since the #Soviet Union disintegration three decades ago in #Afghanistan, there was clearly one superpower in the world (USA).

However, that trend changed dramatically since the withdrawal of the US and NATO from Afghanistan, increased tensions in the Middle-East as well as the Russia-Ukraine war. It’s highly likely that the world will be splitting into two spheres. One #Washington centered the other #Beijing centered in the coming years.

Thereby, #BRICKS summit is gaining huge reputation and its members are increasing.

Sputnik
@SputnikInt
🇷🇺🇨🇳 XI JINPING RECALLS HISTORIC RUSSIA-CHINA TRADE ROUTE TO PUTIN AT BRICS SUMMIT

“400 years ago, the Great Tea Road connecting our countries passed through Kazan [where the BRICS summit is taking place],” Xi said. “And it was through this route that Chinese Wuyishan tea was brought to Russia.”

The Great Tea Road, also called the Siberian Route, was one of the major Chinese trades routes connecting the biggest Russian cities, including Moscow, with China. In 1915, China exported 70,000 tons of tea to Siberia, which accounted for 65 percent of the country’s tea exports.

Sputnik
@SputnikInt
🤝 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN TO HOLD BILATERAL MEETINGS WITH ALMOST ALL THE LEADERS WHO WILL ARRIVE AT THE BRICS SUMMIT

🗨️”The Russian President will hold bilateral meetings with almost all the leaders participating in the summit,” the Kremlin’s statement said.

The BRICS leaders will focus on the possible expansion of association at the summit, the statement said.

🗨️”It is planned to discuss current international issues with an emphasis on the aggravated situation in the Middle East and the interaction of the BRICS countries and the Global South in the interests of sustainable development,” the statement read.

Sputnik
@SputnikInt
🇻🇪 VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO CALLS HIS VISIT TO THE BRICS SUMMIT HISTORIC

The BRICS organization is at the center of a new world order that offers hope to the Global South for access to a fair and cooperative economy, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro told reporters upon his arrival in Kazan for the BRICS summit.

“BRICS is the epicenter of new geopolitics, diplomacy, peace, and, above all, the hope for us—the countries of the Global South, striving for development. For 200 years, with Bolivar as our symbol, we have carried the flag of equality and freedom. Now, we seek access to a different kind of economy—one not dominated by sanctions, blackmail, or hegemonism, but by cooperation, true free trade, joint investment, and new technologies. We are part of this world, the new BRICS world,” Maduro emphasized.

Sputnik
@SputnikInt
🤝 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN TO HOLD BILATERAL MEETINGS WITH ALMOST ALL THE LEADERS WHO WILL ARRIVE AT THE BRICS SUMMIT

🗨️”The Russian President will hold bilateral meetings with almost all the leaders participating in the summit,” the Kremlin’s statement said.

The BRICS leaders will focus on the possible expansion of association at the summit, the statement said.

🗨️”It is planned to discuss current international issues with an emphasis on the aggravated situation in the Middle East and the interaction of the BRICS countries and the Global South in the interests of sustainable development,” the statement read.