Kurdish women continue to protest Ankara's ongoing atrocities against Kurds in the mainly-Kurdish town of Cizre in Turkey's southeast and elsewhere in the region.

Kurdish women will continue to hold protest rallies in Strasbourg against Ankara's ongoing atrocities against Kurds living in the mainly Kurdish town of Cizre in southeastern Turkey's Sirnak province, according to Nursel Kilic, a representative of the Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe.

In an interview with Sputnik, Nursel Kilic, who represents the Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe, said that the protests are being held in front of the buildings of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights.

She recalled that in addition to Cizre, the violence shows no sign of abating in other towns throughout southeastern Turkey, where Turkish irregular troops have stepped up their activity.

A loud explosion has taken place near a police headquarters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, local media reports. At least 12 people are feared to have been killed there - on top of another dozen killed by a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan. The explosion occurred hours after a suicide bomber killed at least another 12 people in the eastern province of Kunar.

Provincial Governor Wahidullah Kalimzai said the attacker arrived on a motorcycle to the entrance of the government headquarters, and blew himself up. "Most of victims were civilians and children who were either passing by or playing in the park," he told Reuters.

No organization immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but tribal elder and militia commander Haji Khan Jan was killed. He had participated in several operations against the Taliban over the last year.

Violence in Afghanistan has been escalating since the US-led international coalition withdrew the majority of its troops fighting the Taliban Islamist movement in 2011-14.

The US continues to provide the Afghan government with training and logistical assistance, as well as with air support. In October 2015, the US Air Force targeted a hospital in the city of Kunduz operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) killing at least 42 people, including 14 MSF staff. According to a UN report, last year the conflict in Afghanistan left more than 3,500 civilians killed and about 7,500 injured.

Teens in the US state of New Mexico have been officially allowed to keep themselves busy sexting - sending or receiving sexually explicit messages, images through e-means, particularly between cell phones - without fear of paying the price and going to jail.

A new bill has legalized sexting between 14 and 17 years old, who willingly send explicit images of themselves to one another. Before it was passed, New Mexico minors could face charges of possessing, distributing and manufacturing child abuse images, if caught sexting. From now on, a pair of youths sharing explicit photos with each other no longer risk facing child pornography charges, prison terms and a criminal record.

"Kids will be kids, and they're going to make mistakes," state senator George Muñoz, a Democrat who pressed for an amendment to the child pornography bill. "You can't punish them for the rest of their lifetime with a charge of child pornography... if they're consensually sending photos back and forth," the Guardian quoted him as saying.

Many residents of the eastern German state of Saxony are convinced that the only person capable of saving their country from political chaos, the refugee influx and their "corrupt, anti-popular government" is Russian President Putin; actually taking to the streets while chanting an invitation for him to come.

Every Monday evening in Dresden, the capital of the the eastern German state of Saxony, thousands gather in front of the city's Opera House mostly in protest of the German government's refugee policies.

The US has been dumping so many weapons into the Syrian conflict that there is now an apparent surplus. ISIS has since taken to selling them online.

Last year, the Free Thought Project reported on a video, apparently recorded just outside of Aleppo, Syria. The video illustrated just how insane the US "War on Terror" has become.

In the video, the U.S. backed, armed, and financed Free Syrian Army, (aka moderate rebels, aka ISIS-linked terrorists) are firing a U.S. supplied anti-tank TOW guided missile.

Of course, the 'moderate rebels' firing a US missile is nothing out of the ordinary. However, what makes this U.S. paid for missile so special is that it was fired at what is clearly a U.S. paid for Humvee.

A former Bethel cop who claimed that he "kindly tried to assist" Alaska Native Wassillie Gregory into his cruiser is now facing criminal charges. Andrew Reid, 29, is charged with fourth-degree assault and official misconduct after a video surfaced which shows his treatment of Gregory was anything but kind.

"The incident itself provoked outrage from some Bethel residents. Bethel's tribe, Orutsaramiut Native Council, said publicly that it was concerned for community members who felt threatened by police."

In the video obtained from a store surveillance camera, Reid can be seen repeatedly picking up and slamming an inebriated Gregory to the concrete before arresting him. Gregory clearly has poor motor control and is pushed away from the cruiser before being tossed around like a sack of potatoes. He sustained a fractured rib and shoulder which needed surgery.

An uncontrollable radioactive flow from the Indian Point nuclear power plant continues leaking into groundwater, which leads to the Hudson River, raising the specter of a Fukushima-like disaster only 25 miles from New York City.

The Indian Point nuclear plant is located on the Hudson River, approximately 25 miles North of NYC, and serves the electrical needs of an estimated 2 million people. Last month, while preparing a reactor for refueling, workers accidentally spilled some contaminated water, containing the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium, causing a massive radiation spike in groundwater monitoring wells, with one well's radioactivity increasing by as much as 65,000 percent.

Entergy, the Louisiana-based company that owns the plant, chalked up the readings to "fluctuations that can be expected as the material migrates." According to Entergy, the tritium contaminated water spill was contained within the plant, and never reached the Hudson or any other water source.

As sad as this story is, it also might restore your faith in humanity a little.

Ten-year-old Kiera Larsen died Monday while saving the lives of two toddlers from an out-of-control SUV that was barreling down on them.

A 1999 Mercedes parked on a sloping driveway near where the girl and toddlers were playing somehow went into neutral and took off backwards down the slope.

Kiera's stepmom had run inside for just a second to grab a car charger. Kiera risked her life pushing the toddlers out of the way but was hit by the SUV and later succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.

Once the crucible of youthful rebellion, London's streets have been emptied of punks, skinheads and rude boys by the rise of the Internet, a lack of public spaces and protective parents.
"The police used to have to wait at Sloane Square and round up all the punks as they got off the Tube," recalled Westwood in her memoirs.

"Once they had about 200 of them, they would escort them in a procession down the King's Road to the shop".

If you experience it every day, you quickly get used to it; you no longer overreact. Figures turn into statistics and then into history. This history has become so familiar that it no longer surprises anyone, hardly affecting most people. But two years have passed since Ukraine's Euromaidan. In retrospect you start to realize how low the country has fallen during this period.

What is the 'European' present, now?

Territory and population

The Ukraine lost 47,000 sq. km. or 7.2% of its territory.

The population officially amounts to 42.7 million people, about 35-36 million without the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics and citizens who emigrated to Russia. Taking into account whose who left for Europe, we get 33-34 million people.