Morning digest: India to host BRICS leaders in Delhi today; Saudi Arabia shuts down major oil pipeline amid fighting in Yemen, and more
New Delhi is hosting the BRICS summit while negotiators struggle to finalize a declaration due to geopolitical tensions in West Asia. Simultaneously, Saudi Arabia has shut down a major oil pipeline following drone attacks, and India's Supreme Court is reviewing food labeling regulations.
Why it matters
The convergence of geopolitical conflict, energy security, and diplomatic summits highlights the volatility of current global relations.
As New Delhi prepared to host the BRICS Summit of 11 emerging economies, negotiators were working late into the evening on Friday (September 11, 2026) to forge a consensus for the “Delhi Declaration”. Diplomatic sources and officials said that all member countries had agreed to “almost all the text, with the exception of one paragraph”, indicating that the references to the war in Iran started by the U.S. and Israel, and Iran’s attacks on installations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other West Asian countries, had still not been resolved
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