In a sign of growing frustration over a lack of progress in talks to join the European Union, Turkiye is holding talks and negotiations with the BRICS countries.

Egypt has been invited to join BRICS, a group of five major emerging economies, as part of an expansion that will also include Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and three other countries.

The BRICS no longer wants to present itself as a group of five developing nations but rather as a rival of the United States and the European Union.

After years of diplomatic decline and isolation, Algeria seeks to reassert its regional role and forge new alliances with emerging powers, especially Russia and China.

Saudi Arabia is in talks to join the BRICS Group's new Development Bank as a new member, a move analysts consider as anti-U.S.