BRICS nations call for ‘maximum restraint’ in Mid-East war

Members of the 11-nation BRICS group including China, Russia, Iran and India called for calm in the Middle East at a summit in New Delhi on Saturday, overcoming earlier divisions to issue a joint statement.Chinese President Xi Jinping, who joined Russian, Iranian, Indian and other leaders in the Indian capital, told the summit that the Middle East war “does not serve the common interests of the international community”.Foreign ministers of the BRICS grouping failed to agree on a joi