A UN report released on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women said that “almost 60 percent of all women who were intentionally killed in 2023” died at the hands of partners or family members. The report added that “the home is the most dangerous place for women and girls”. Source link
FRANCE 24’s Stuart Noval is joined live by Oliver Heer, Vendée Globe competitor and skipper on Tut gut’ — good for you — boat. “it’s a childhood dream,” explains Heer, speaking from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. But the skipper is also well aware of the dangers that lie in wait in the ‘Everest … Read more
All forms of violence against women are on the rise in Germany. The Federal Criminal Police Office’s (BKA) first-ever situation report “Gender-specific crimes against women in 2023″ notes 360 women killed because of misogyny, in the course of domestic violence or separation. At the presentation of the report in October, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) … Read more
New Delhi: After winning the US Presidential elections, Donald Trump is still busy forming his team. He wants to prepare his team even before assuming the chair. In this series, he has made a person as minister, who has seen the account books of India’s enemy. Yes, Donald Trump has chosen Scott Besant as his … Read more
Latifa doesn’t mind being interviewed, but she warns that she doesn’t have many good things to say about trying to find work in Germany. An Afghan IT professor who studied at the Technical University in Berlin before gaining eight years’ experience in operating system administration, she has been looking for work in Germany for over … Read more
French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen was on Monday holding talks with Prime Minister Michel Barnier as her party intensified warnings it was prepared to topple his government in a move that would fling France into political crisis. Source link
A conference on how to end plastic pollution opened on Monday in Busan, South Korea, but there was little consensus between nations on how to deal with the 90 percent of plastic produced globally that is not recycled. Source link
With evidence over in the shocking trial of a man who drugged his wife Gisele Pelicot for years so he could invite dozens of strangers to abuse her, French prosecutors will from Monday set out their sentencing requests to judges. Source link
In a surprise outcome in the first round of Romania’s presidential election, an obscure hard-right candidate, Calin Georgescu, came first with 22.9 percent of the vote while Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, favored to win the poll, was knocked out of the race, near-complete results showed Monday. Source link
Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) are on Monday set to officially nominate Chancellor Olaf Scholz as the party’s lead candidate going into the snap federal election on February 23. Scholz’s nomination comes after two weeks of tense discussions within the SPD as to whether to back the incumbent Chancellor for a second term or to … Read more