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"Turkey cannot intervene against the threats right next to it? We will never accept this ... We don’t need permission for this, and we don’t plan on getting it."
"We are working for a strategic partnership anchored on trade and security," Zuma said.
Oil prices rose to one-year highs on Russia's pledge but quickly subsided on fears cuts may be too token.
Turkey expects Putin's visit to hasten the normalization of ties which neared collapse after the SU-24 incident last year.
The mainland Chinese indices were also buoyed by a rally in energy company trade.
The BRICS countries account for more than a quarter of the world’s economic output.
The attack on the funeral hall is among the most horrific of the two-year civil war.
A French draft resolution had called for an end to aerial bombing and oveflights of Russian, Syrian aicraft over Aleppo.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Santos the prestigious prize for his efforts to broker a peace deal with Colombia's FARC rebels.
The Lower House of Russia's Parliament, the Duma, has ratified a deal to keep the air force in Syria indefinitely.
