Global military spending has begun rising in real terms for the first time since the U.S. began its withdrawal of troops from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the SIPRI. Defense budgets rose 1 percent to $1.68 trillion in 2015, making up about 2.3 percent of the world’s GDP. Source: Bloomberg
The Italian Ministry of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, announced on Saturday that Italian police officers would be sent to patrol the French border to prevent the French sending migrants over the border, after protesting against an episode on Friday in Clavière, despite being described as routine by France. Source Le Figro
The facts would go back to Thursday, and would have taken place in a class at Edouard-Branly high school in Créteil, according to Le Parisien. On the video footage filmed with Snapchat and published on social networks, we can see a high school student pointing a gun a few centimetres from a teacher’s face. Source Actu17
Two large global wealth managers have imposed restrictions on staff travel to China after a UBS Group AG employee was detained, underlining the challenges of capturing business in a country where fortunes are growing the fastest on the planet. Source Bloomberg
