Putin hosts Global South leaders at BRICS summit meant to counterbalance Western clout

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China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders arrived Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies that the Kremlin hopes to turn into a rallying point for defying Western influence in global affairs. Story by Emerald Maxwell and Delano D’Souza.