MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested Bill Browder, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin heads a British investment fund, in Madrid on Wednesday, according to a tweet by Browder from the back of Spanish police car. Source: Reuters World News
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected Ukraine's allegation that Moscow was behind Tuesday's murder of a Russian dissident journalist in Kiev, Russia's state news agency TASS reported. Source: Reuters World News
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Northern China's Hebei province will build winter sports and tourism facilities to create an "ice and snow industry" worth as much as 150 billion yuan ($23.33 billion) a year by 2025, the provincial government said on Wednesday. Source: Reuters World News
ROME (Reuters) - Last-ditch efforts to form a government in Italy showed little sign of succeeding on Wednesday, with major parties calling instead for repeat elections in July - a vote investors fear could become a de facto referendum on the euro. Source: Reuters World News
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will review its espionage laws, the government's chief legal officer said on Wednesday, as the country seeks to strengthen spy agencies strained by juggling counter-terror work and worries about China's rising influence. Source: Reuters World News
KABUL (Reuters) - More than 50 senior Taliban commanders were killed in an artillery strike on a meeting in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a U.S. military spokesman said on Wednesday, as fighting continues across the country. Source: Reuters World News
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian opinion poll published on Wednesday showed support for the right-wing League party up eight percent to 25.4 percent compared to is result at the March 4 elections. Source: Reuters World News
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines is prepared to go to war if military personnel are harmed in disputed waters, a top security official said on Wednesday, firing back at criticism the government was going soft on China and allowing it to militarize the South China Sea. Source: Reuters World News
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Six months ago, the UN Security Council agreed to send an additional 900 troops to the Central African Republic (CAR), reinforcing one of its biggest peacekeeping missions in one of the world's most dangerous countries. So far, just 400 have arrived -- a worrying sign of the problems that the UN mission, known by its [...]