PARIS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The new year is not beginning well and challenges -- including food security, economies and political upheaval -- face the Earth.
HERNDON, Va., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- The story is the same in North Korea, which seems more intent on nuclear weapons programs and honoring its leaders than feeding its people, the author says.
TUNIS, Tunisia, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Two years after the revolutions, Arab Spring nations continue to face turbulent transitions as they try to forge ahead through new challenges and old legacies.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. {WOMENSENEWS}-- The Black Women's Roundtable wants automatic spending and tax changes averted as soon as possible. They would be too punishing for families already living at the edge of survival.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The author says a Foreign Policy issue that looked at the Iranian nuclear controversy wasn't hard enough on Tehran and its plans.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- The United States is facing a "fiscal cliff" but that doesn't mean tax increases have to be part of any solution, the author argues.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- As investigations continue into the Sandy Hook massacre, Michele Weldon can't stop thinking about the killer's mother, Nancy Lanza, and if she should be blamed too.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Since World War II, the Middle East in particular and the Arab world in general is a kaleidoscope of wars, revolutions, coups, counter-coups and assassinations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- To most observers, the most dangerous of ticking time bombs at the Pentagon is budgetary but there are three less visible and perhaps more dangerous issues.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- MomsRising began pressing for gun-control regulations the day of the Newtown, Conn., massacre. Mayors and a U.S. senator with an "A" rating from the NRA are also leading the effort.
HERNDON, Va., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- For those who have served in uniform, there is a feeling of family. There is a bond among all who serve and reaching especially to those who are lost.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Two years after the start of the Arab Spring, Hajer Naili interviews three post-revolutionary women about the increasingly radical Islamist forces that are smothering their hopes. "I don't even know what their aims are," says one woman.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The European Union and the United States have revived the venerable scheme of a free trade pact between the two giants of the global economy.
CAIRO {WOMENSENEWS}-- After three weeks of sometimes violent revolt against Morsi's pro-Islamist power grab, Egypt is slated to hold a vote this weekend on a controversial draft constitution. For women concerned about divorce rights and FGM, the spotlight falls on the loosely worded Article 10.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Even if U.S. President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, manage to avert the "fiscal cliff," Washington's budget woes won't be solved.
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- If you're working at Burger King, 22, and have three children, you don't make enough. You're part of a low-wage work force that is predominantly female and--as of a few months ago--starting to protest.
HERNDON, Va., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's recent attempt as a power grab could signal the end to the recent attempt at democracy in Egypt.
LONDON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- It will take something close to a miracle to stop average temperatures rising more than 2 degrees and sea level rise down to 3 feet because of climate change.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Which corporations are financing whose campaigns? What are their political surrogates saying about Planned Parenthood and rape? Should we boycott? After 2012 these are big civil rights questions for women to consider.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. economy added 146,000 jobs in November, up a bit from 138,000 in October. The unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, largely because 542,000 additional adults chose not to look for work.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- For Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu apartheid, or institutionalized segregation of Palestinians, is less threatening than full-fledged Palestinian independence.
TEL AVIV, Israel (WOMENSENEWS) A U.N. resolution passed over 10 years ago requires women's involvement in conflict resolutions. But that has little bearing on the Israel-Palestine conflict, where women are far from the power roles on either side.
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
