<span fr-original-class="customBullet" fr-original-style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 12px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block;" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 12px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; box-sizing: border-box;">•&nbsp; BRICS expansion:&nbsp;Brazil’s government announced that Indonesia has been admitted as a full member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, after expressing its interest in membership late last year.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Important note:&nbsp;Brazil, which holds the bloc’s presidency this year, said in a statement that member states had approved Indonesia’s entry by consensus, making it the first nation from Southeast Asia to join the economic grouping.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Zoom out:&nbsp;The BRICS grouping, named after its core members–Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa–has undergone a round of expansion that was endorsed at the 2023 BRICS summit in Johannesburg. Last year, it absorbed Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, while bringing 13 other nations on board as “partner countries.”</li></ul>

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