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Friends, family reunite in Ottawa on Christmas EveBelfast city centre in the evening (Image: Belfast Live) A local councillor has said she is “frustrated” that Belfast initiatives on women’s safety continue to put the “onus on women protecting themselves” rather than men changing their behaviour. At a Belfast City Council committee meeting, Alliance Councillor Jenna Maghie made the comments after a council official’s update on work relating to violence against women and girls and possible interventions to improve women’s safety in the city. Attention has been slowly focusing on what has been described as a growing “epidemic” of violence against women in recent years in Northern Ireland. Aside from domestic incidents, a particular area of concern has become women and girl’s safety in the city centre, particularly at night. READ MORE: Belfast councillor slates pension body for “investing as much in Israel as in Northern Ireland” READ MORE: Belfast Council calls on Trust to scrap plan to remove out of hours GP service Since January 2020, 23 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland. There were more than 33,000 domestic abuse incidents in NI in 2023, and in the last year there were more than 4,000 sexual violence and abuse reports. Two weeks ago a city centre “multi-agency operational taskforce” met on the issue, with representatives from the council, Stormont , the police, the Belfast Business Improvement Districts, Retail NI, and the Belfast Chamber. Councillors learned that activity in the run-up to Christmas includes the distribution of personal safety alarms to members of the Linen Quarter Business Improvement District, and University of Ulster and Queens University Belfast hosting a number of pop-up safety events and supplying a number of personal safety alarms to students. Belfast Council Safe Neighbourhood Officers are planning additional programming over the December period, which will see an increased visibility of police officers and SNO officers throughout the day and evening. At the November meeting of the Strategic Policy and Resources Committee, Councillor Maghie said despite these actions little was being done towards structural change. She said: “I obviously give massive thanks to everyone who has been involved in pulling this together, and all those who contributed across all of the committees this has come to recently. It is really sad we have to shine a light on this again, but it is really important work that the council is doing. “I want to restate that I am really grateful for the list of things that are in here, the suggestions that are here, and all the work that lots of organisations are doing. “But I have said I am going to do this every time it comes up, and I am doing it again today. I am so frustrated that when we bring any paper on this, the onus is always on women to protect themselves. You have to carry an alarm, you have to carry your own anti-spike kits, because a lot of hospitality places don’t want to stock them, and you have to take a self-defence class. “These are immediate things that we can do, and they are important, and we should do them. But systemic change is the bit we always have to talk about.” She added: “Even in reports like this, we have to talk about the fact that the responsibility for women in our city to be safe is not just on them to take steps to protect themselves. “It is men who have to do this, who have to change their attitudes, and it is only through continuing to say it, that we will see the message get across. Unfortunately when men say it, it is heard more than when I say it. “It is a real source of frustration for me, that while we cannot fix this before Christmas, it is not there in the report. That is the piece of work that has to happen.” DUP Councillor Sarah Bunting said: “If someone comes to us and says 'what can you do to help protect women in our community' we need to know where to signpost with confidence. We need the ability to do it there and then. “An inter-agency meeting, which could be set up for all councillors to attend, with key stakeholders such as the PSNI and the SOS Bus, would be really important. And (designed) so it is not the same few people that show up.” Green Councillor Áine Groogan said: “The worst we could do is not mobilise the energy around this at the moment. We should pull together some sort of civic meeting on this and try to map a way forward, that would be really useful, because we know there is money coming down the line from the Executive Office. But we need to act strategically and have a cohesive voice moving forward." Join our Belfast Live breaking news service on WhatsApp Click this link or scan the QR code to receive breaking news and top stories from Belfast Live. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice . Belfast Council has a commitment to Belfast being recognised a 'Safe City' by signing the White Ribbon Charter, and has signed the Onus Workplace Charter on Domestic Violence. The council also has its Gender Action Plan 2024-27, in which it works with the Stormont Executive Office to deliver the £3 million strategic framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls, released this year. It is also in a partnership project with Queen's University to improve the design of public spaces for interventions to end such violence. 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Vladimir Putin and Rajnath Singh (R) NEW DELHI: India's expansive strategic partnership with Russia was reinforced on Tuesday, with defence minister Rajnath Singh telling President Vladimir Putin that their "friendship is higher than the highest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean", while the two countries also inked a wide-ranging protocol on defence cooperation in "ongoing and prospective areas". In his almost-hour-long meeting with Putin at the Kremlin, Singh also stressed that India "has always stood by its Russian friends and will continue to do so in the future", underlining the fine balance India has struck between Russia and the US-led western countries even during the ongoing Ukraine war. However, there were several concerns raised by the Indian delegation during the 21st India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Military Military-Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-M&MTC) meeting, which was co-chaired by Singh and his Russian counterpart Andrey Belousov. Sources said New Delhi asked Moscow to speed up deliveries of the two remaining squadrons of the S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems as well as set up a repair and overhaul facility for them in India, while also ensuring timely deliveries, maintenance support and supply of spares for several other weapon systems and platforms, ranging from Sukhoi-30MKI fighters to T-90S main-battle tanks. Moscow was also asked to give more transfer of technology to improve the "maintenance and sustenance" of the IAF's existing fleet of 259 Sukhoi jets, the bulk of them produced by HAL under licence from Russia for over $12 billion. With Singh asking Russian defence industries to "explore new opportunities" to enhance their participation in 'Make in India' projects, Belousov said the operationalisation of the military technical cooperation agreement for 2021-31 would give the necessary impetus to such endeavours. Dubbing the joint production of AK-203 assault rifles at the Korwa ordnance factory in UP a "resounding success", Singh told Belousov that Russia must expand the production of such products in India and explore exporting them to other countries, the sources said. Russia still remains India's main weapons supplier, accounting for over 36% of its arms imports, though New Delhi has been focussing on enhancing its own domestic defence production. India has also increasingly turned to countries like the US, France and Israel for military hardware and software over the last two decades. Around 60% of Indian military's inventory is still of Russian-origin, including fighters like Sukhoi-30MKIs and MiG-29s, warships like aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, Talwar and Teg-class frigates and Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines, AN-32 medium-lift aircraft and Mi-17 helicopters. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .
Obsidian Entertainment's satirical sci-fi video game, "The Outer Worlds," launched back in 2019, and now, thanks to The Game Awards, we finally got a look at the gameplay of the follow-up, " The Outer Worlds 2 ". The Outer Worlds takes place in the colonized six-planet solar system of Halcyon and offers a dark, dystopian take on humankind's expansion as a multi-planetary species in the year 2355 and the true costs of bureaucratic outer space endeavors . This popular first-person shooter with an attitude was offered for PS4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo Switch, offering a blank-slate playable character simply called The Stranger. You awaken from suspended animation eager to begin a fresh life beyond your home planet only to discover that via some corporate error, your fellow settlers will not be joining you and that bright future you'd been dreaming of in hypersleep has now become a nightmare. Now a new trailer for the sequel, "The Outer Worlds 2," just blasted into our orbit at last week's The Game Awards 2024 and it's stuffed like a Christmas goose with all sorts of sarcastic humor and a classic rock anthem from Bachman Turner Overdrive, "You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet." We don't have a firm release date yet, but according to the announcement "The Outer Worlds 2" is due for release on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Steam, and Game Pass in 2025. it's definitely one of our most anticipated upcoming space games for 2025, so stick with us for more news and trailers when they drop. Here's the official description: "The call to go beyond the stars is here once again, and it's bigger, bolder, and more unpredictable than ever. We just revealed a first gameplay trailer for 'The Outer Worlds 2' during The Game Awards 2024, promising a fresh adventure in a brand-new colony next year. No really, we know we're not supposed to promise things in marketing, but the setting is completely new, so this is all factual. Just don’t break the colony again. We're looking at each of you who sent the Hope into the sun in the last game. "In true Obsidian Entertainment fashion, you carve your path through Arcadia, a colony teeming with factions, intrigue, and chaos. It's also home of skip drive technology and where the fate of the entire colony – and the galaxy – rests. As a daring, undeniably good-looking, and questionably competent Earth Directorate agent, you're tasked with uncovering the source of devastating rifts threatening the entire galaxy. Talk about stakes (not to be confused with raptidon steaks, those are very different)! The choice of how to deal with the rifts is up to you. 'Your worlds, your way,' as we say at Obsidian." "The Outer Worlds 2" is also getting additional attention this week in the form of a December 17 episode of Prime Video's video game anthology series, "Secret Level," with an original story set between "The Outer Worlds" and "The Outer Worlds 2." Obsidian's "The Outer Worlds 2" and its barbed humor is slated to hit the marketplace in 2025 for Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, Steam, and PlayStation 5. While you're waiting, be sure to check out our list of the best space games in the galaxy... OK fine, you got us, we've only checked Earth, but the lineup is still amazing.
