Archive image. The Brics meeting in November 2019 took place in Brasilia. From left: South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa, China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Brazil's then-president Jair Bolsonaro. Pavel Golovkin / AP
China's global ambitions
Sources: China wants Brics pact to take on G7
China intends to elevate the Brics emerging market pact - made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - as a "full-fledged rival" to the G7 industrial pact at the annual summit in Johannesburg this week. This is stated by sources for the Financial Times.
Before the summit, however, China and India have ended up in a clinch about how the pact should develop. According to the sources, the stumbling block is whether Brics should be an organization for the economic interests of developing countries or a political force that openly challenges the West.
- If we expand Brics so that we account for a similar share of the world's GDP as the G7, then our voice in the world will grow stronger, says an anonymous Chinese official to the newspaper.
However, South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said earlier this week that it is "extremely wrong" to interpret an expansion of the Brics pact as a stance against the West.
A person works at the crime scene after a woman was shot dead in her car outside the West Bank city of Hebron. Mahmoud Illean / AP
The Israel-Palestine conflict
Israeli woman killed in West Bank attack
An Israeli woman has been shot dead in an attack in the West Bank, AFP reports. A man is also said to have been seriously injured in the attack when a person started shooting from a car near the city of Hebron in the West Bank.
Since last year, violence in the West Bank has increased with a series of attacks by Palestinians against Israeli targets, but also repeated Israeli army raids and violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinian communities.
Bernardo Arevalo waves to the press after voting in Guatemala City. Moises Castillo/AP
The elections in Guatemala
Social democratic politician wins the presidential election
The social democratic politician Bernardo Arévalo wins the presidential election in Guatemala. Arévalo landed on 59 percent when 95 percent of the votes were counted, figures from the country's electoral authority show. His rival, former first lady Sandra Torres, got 36 percent. It reports Prensalibre.
- This victory belongs to the people and together we will fight against corruption, Arévalo said during a press conference after the victory.
Arévalo was a big surprise when he received the second most votes in the first round of elections. Guatemala now gets its first leader on the left in over a decade.
Presidential candidate Jan Topic brought his family to the polling station. Martin Mejia / AP
The presidential election in Ecuador
A foreign legionnaire one of the favorites to win the election
One of the main candidates was murdered - then instead a right-wing businessman sailed to the front in public opinion, writes AFP.
Jan Topic is 40 years old, former Foreign Legionnaire who promised to get rid of the gangs and build more prisons. But can the unrest in Ecuador carry all the way to the presidency?
"Rambo", as he is known, met with the press when he appeared at the polling station with his wife and children.
- Choose the candidate who has the experience, the will and the plan to annihilate the violence in this country, Topic urged.
Topic is one of three candidates highlighted as the early favourites. The other two: Louisa Gonzalez and Otto Sonnenholzner have been involved in national politics significantly longer than Topic, who is running for the first time.
If none of the candidates gets a full majority in the election, a new round of elections awaits in mid-October.
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