Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline after the vital oil conduit came under aerial attack in the widening Middle East war, threatening to send energy prices even higher.

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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 yesterday, overcoming earlier divisions to issue a joint statement.

US President Donald Trump yesterday said he would “love” to see British-run Northern Ireland unify with Ireland, remarks made during a visit to Dublin that drew a sharp response frompro-British unionists in Northern Ireland.

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The declaration, adopted on the first day of the BRICS leaders' annual summit in New Delhi, comes at a time when US and Iran have resumed tit-for-tat strikes against each other, after a pause in fighting for much of August.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said today that the Middle East war, sparked by US-Israeli strikes on Iran in late February, does not serve the world's interests, Beijing's state media reported.

"I think very soon. I think it'll be probably right after the mid-terms. They're trying to hold out as long as they can to complicate the election. But I think people are wise to it," Trump told reporters in Dublin.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that the Middle East does not need the United States to be a "regional policeman", with the two countries at war and vying for control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Washington has recently sought to kick-start long-stalled efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its fifth year, with US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visiting Moscow and Kyiv last weekend

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Trump is making his 48-hour foreign trip as his Republican Party campaigns to keep its majorities in both chambers of the US Congress. The Iran conflict has heightened economic concerns among American voters by raising gas prices nationwide.

The bloc, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, is holding its annual summit in New Delhi this weekend.

Eleven hotels and 35 key routes have been pulled into Delhi’s summit security map, with NSG commandos, foreign teams and anti-sabotage units operating across the capital.

Xi stepped out of his plane to a red carpet welcome and was greeted by women performing traditional Indian dances.

More than 350 meetings across over 25 Indian cities have preceded the leaders’ gathering, as India concludes a year of BRICS engagements spanning political, economic and people-to-people cooperation.

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Leaders of the BRICS group of nations will meet on Saturday in the Indian capital of New Delhi for their annual summit