Dilma Rousseff will head the group’s New Development Bank until the end of Brazil’s presidency in 2025
Former Brazilian head of state Dilma Rousseff has been named as the next president of the BRICS group’s New Development Bank after Brazil won the backing of its partners for the appointment on Friday.
The nominee was agreed by Brazil’s government, which is currently headed by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Rousseff, who served as the president of Brazil between 2011 and 2016, will replace Brazilian diplomat Marcos Troyjo, who was appointed by the country’s previous leader Jair Bolsonaro.
Rousseff will hold the position until the end of the current Brazilian mandate in the bank’s management in 2025, and is expected to accompany President da Silva during his visit to China scheduled for March.
The BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – are working to develop their own financial infrastructure, including a joint payment network, with some member states having already switched to trade in local currencies in order to reduce dependence on the US dollar and euro.
The five BRICS economies currently account for more than 40% of the world’s population and nearly a quarter of global GDP.
https://www.rt.com/business/571321-brics-bank-brazil-dilma-rousseff/
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has long fought to publicize the files related to the late pedophile
A Republican lawmaker has accused US President Donald Trump of attempting to distract the public from the Epstein scandal by embroiling the country in a conflict with Iran.
Representative Thomas Massie’s comments come after the release of millions of pages of files on late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein by the US Justice Department (DOJ). The documents mention Trump over 5,000 times, though without any indication of criminal activity.
“Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away,” Massie said on X on Sunday.
In other posts, the congressman described the US-Israeli attacks on Iran as “acts of war unauthorized by Congress” and expressed opposition to the conflict. “This is not ‘America First.’”.....more below
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced the largest wave of retaliatory attacks against the Israeli-occupied territories on the second day of the joint US-Israeli war of aggression against the Islamic Republic.
In a brief statement on Sunday, the IRGC said it has launched the seventh and eighth waves of Operation True Promise 4 as it vowed to take revenge for the blood of the martyrs, including IRGC chief commander Major General Mohammad Pakpour.
“With the grace of God, we will avenge the blood of the martyrs and defend the security, national interests and territorial integrity of the country,” the statement read.
The Israeli army radio reported that at least 38 missiles were fired from Iran toward the occupied territories. It described the operation as the largest wave of attacks by Iran.
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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles.
In its seventh statement on Operation True Promise 4, which was launched immediately after the latest Israeli-American aggression against the Islamic Republic on Saturday, the IRGC’s public relations office announced on Sunday that the attack was carried out as part of ongoing operations against American and Israeli enemy targets.
According to the statement, the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was targeted by four ballistic missiles successfully.
The IRGC added that the Iranian armed forces have entered a new phase of operations and warned that both land and sea would become a “graveyard for the aggressors.”
Further information about the operation will be released later, the statement said.....more below
