1. Meet the Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS in Syria
As ISIS continues to seize land and inflict terror with their claim of a new cross-border caliphate, several thousand Kurdish women are choosing to fight back, enlisting in the Women’s Protection Unit, or YPJ, which sprung from the wider Kurdish resistance movement. These women, who are mainly unmarried and between the ages of 18 and 24, have chosen to live lives of discipline and austerity to say the least; their grueling schedules include getting roughly six hours of sleep and 4 a.m. workouts preceding their drills and classroom lessons. However, though many of these women have never fought before their training, it is said that they inspire great fear in their ISIS enemies who believe that if they are killed by a woman they will not go to heaven.
2. 5 Things That May Happen if Scotland Votes for Independence
With the vote just one week away, British politicians head north to advocate against Scotland's choice to vote to become independent from Great Britain, which currently includes England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. If these politicians fail and Scotland still votes to secede, some major changes will take place, the greatest of which perhaps being the dissolution of Great Britain and the Union Jack (the red-white-and-blue flag which represents Great Britain). Though the Queen will still remain on the throne, there would be many changes spanning from Scottish currency exchange, to the question of a new prime minister, to the nuclear weapons that Scotland has been storing for England.
3. Kentucky Teacher Found Dead in Chile
Police are investigating the death of a 22-year-old woman from Kentucky who was found Saturday at an apartment in Chile. Erica Hagan, a young English teacher from Georgetown College, a private Christian school, traveled to Chile to serve there as a teaching assistant. Her body appeared to have been stabbed with sharp objects, and she had also sustained head injuries, while Chilean police investigate the story as a possible homicide.
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