Category: International

Recent murders have drawn public attention to gender-based violence in India, where officials have failed to track such attacks. As the UN compiles femicide statistics, DW looks at why India is likely to come up short.On November 12, news broke of a young woman in Delhi who was strangled and dismembered by her live-in partner. […]

LONDON: Indian students have for the first time overtaken Chinese as the largest group of foreign students studying in the UK with a massive 273 per cent hike in visas granted over the past few years, according to the country’s official immigration statistics released on Thursday.The UK Home Office data collated by the Office for […]

NEW DELHI: Just days before his retirement, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday said that the East Pakistan debacle of 1971 was a political failure and not a military one.The army chief rejected the commonly held notion that 92,000 soldiers surrendered in the 1971 war and claimed that there were […]

ISLAMABAD: Former premier Imran Khan has lamented that the US has been using Pakistan like a “hired gun” in the war against terror and America’s ties with his country are “very undignified” as compared to a very “civilised relationship” with India.His comments came days after Khan signaled his readiness to mend ties with the United […]

ISLAMABAD, Nov – Pakistan named Lieutenant-General Asim Munir on Thursday as chief of its army, an organisation that plays a hugely influential role in the governance of the nuclear-armed nation.His appointment coincides with a dispute between the military and former prime minister Imran Khan, who blames the army for playing a part in his ouster […]

ANKARA, Nov – Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar told his Russian counterpart in a call on Thursday that Ankara would continue responding to attacks from northern Syria, after Russia asked Turkey to refrain from a full-scale Syria offensive.Akar told Sergei Shoigu that “Turkey’s priority is to prevent the terrorism threat (from northern Syria) permanently,” and […]

HOUSTON, Nov – Oil prices fell more than 4% on Wednesday as the Group of Seven (G7) nations considered a price cap on Russian oil above the current market level and as gasoline inventories in the United States built by more than analysts’ expected.Brent futures for January delivery fell $3.47 to $84.89 a barrel, a […]

CHESAPEAKE, Va., Nov 23 – A manager at a Walmart Inc. (WMT.N) store in Virginia entered a break room and opened fire on fellow employees before turning the gun on himself, an eyewitness said on Wednesday, leaving a total of seven dead in the latest mass shooting in the United States.Walmart employee Briana Tyler told […]

ISLAMABAD, Nov – Pakistan’s outgoing army chief rejected on Wednesday as “fake and false” claims by ousted prime minister Imran Khan that a U.S.-backed conspiracy had toppled his government, and also said the military would play no role in national politics in future.General Qamar Javed Bajwa made his comments in one of his farewell addresses […]