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Scientists have found tantalizing evidence of a liquid water ocean swirling under the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa, Nasa announced on Monday, with new evidence of water plumes bursting out into space. With Jupiter as a bright light behind the moon, the scientists observed […]

A petition signed by more than 14,000 Saudi women calling for an end to the country’s male guardianship system is being handed to the government. Women must have the consent of a male guardian to travel abroad, and often need permission to work or study. […]

Young 19-year-old Fahima Mohammadi has organized “her own funeral” and invited close friends to say goodbye last time. Kashmiri Shiite Muslim women participate in a Muharram procession in Srinagar, India © AP Photo/ Mukhtar Khan Talaq Talaq Talaq: Emergence of Islamic Feminism in India The […]

Famous Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan, who arrived in Istanbul last week, visited a Syrian refugee family with Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Abdurrahim Boynukalın in coordination with Bosphorus Center for Global Affairs. Lohan shared a photo of her visit on the popular photo sharing […]

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — Only 30 doctors remain in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where they are in dire need of medical and surgical supplies to treat hundreds of wounded people among a trapped population of 300,000, Syrian doctors said on Monday. At least 40 wounded people in […]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is confident that the close bonds between Israel and the U.S. will continue regardless of who wins November’s presidential election. “The relationship is so strong between Israel and the United States of America that whoever is elected, she or […]

The operation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria was initially expected to last only several months but it dragged on since there has been no true broad anti-terrorist coalition created so far, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Monday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia […]

The size of the bomb craters is becoming larger and the destructive power is growing of the missiles that Russian and Syrian government warplanes are launching at civilians and rebels in Aleppo. Since the breakdown last week of a U.S.-Russia negotiated cease-fire in Syria, the […]

On Friday, Japan received its first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Given that one of the Pentagon’s own models caught fire on the very same day, can Tokyo expect similar setbacks? Japan’s Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) received the JSF as part of an elaborate celebration […]