WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Unintended consequences often combine the most diabolical of dangers with the greatest of huge rewards. This Janus-like face of danger and reward is often unrecognized and even ignored in the taking of major decisions by states and leaders.
ISTANBUL {WOMENSENEWS}-- Amid calls for Turkish women to have more children, a proposal to lengthen the paid maternity leave allowance raises fears that it may actually hinder women's work force participation.
HERNDON, Va., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- With talks scheduled between Iran and the P5+1 nations -- China, England, France, Russia, the United State and Germany -- on Tehran's nuclear program, a world leader is expressing urgency the negotiations yield concrete results.
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- The women who gather on these two street corners of New York are looking for day work as housekeepers. The territory comes with harassment and haywire scheduling. Hurricane Sandy blew a different type of cleanup work their way, but only a few dare to give it a try.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- There is a significant chance that by this time next week the world could be back in the throes of a full-blooded financial crisis.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- “Why the U.S.-Pakistani Alliance Isn’t Worth the Trouble,” says former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani.
MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Indiana remains the poster child of efficient regulation of telecommunications in America; the envy of most other states.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The opening last November of a Saudi-backed interfaith center in Austria has created speculation and controversy in the religious and human rights worlds.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Tennessee Republican Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. has sparked a surge of internet outrage after he told reporters this week that men can handle violence “a little better than a lot of women.”
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is painting a dire picture if the House Republicans don't agree to raise taxes, yet again, to avert sequestration.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- European Parliament members call for Iranian dissidents in Iraq's Camp Liberty to be return to Camp Ashraf and moved to third countries.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Strong community support and resources are a starting point in the next frontier for breastfeeding success. Kimberly Seals Allers challenges governors in three Southern states to make a pledge to mothers.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- In English slang, "pickle" means a bad situation or a state of disorder. And pickle well applies to the nuclear ambitions of North Korea, Iran and U.S. policy.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Europeans are pinning more of their hopes on President Barack Obama's proposal for a Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to kick-start growth.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Safety activists say universal background checks could save the lives of women such as Jennifer Lynch, murdered by her husband on Valentine's Day 2006. They also welcome the president's order to get the CDC back to tracking gun violence.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- The Iranian people had many hopes after the fall of the shah in February 1979 but that great revolution was hijacked by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Islamic fundamentalists and a much more ruthless tyranny began.
{WOMENSENEWS}-- With Senate passage assured ahead of time, focus falls on the 22 all-male GOP lawmakers who voted against passage. From here the bill moves to the real battleground in the House, where GOP ranks are at least somewhat divided.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Last year, the Obama administration released its latest strategic guidance for the Pentagon. The lead headline read "U.S. pivots to Asia."
KATHMANDU, Nepal (GPI)-- Thousands of young women each year are lured into Kathmandu's booming and unregulated sex industry that operates out of cafes and bars. Many arrive with hopes of saving money and going home, but the wages are often too meager for that to ever happen.
HERNDON, Va., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- As the latest sanctions were imposed against Iran in a continuing effort to force it to end its push to develop nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said something which again demonstrates his detachment from reality.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Maurice Zard is becoming a Johnny Appleseed for Lebanon, giving away fast-growing Paulownia saplings to farms, municipalities, schools or anyone who wants them.
PARIS, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Against most predictions and against tough odds, British prime minister David Cameron won the battle of the European budget last week. But he may have condemned himself to defeat in the far more important and long-term campaign to reform and secure Britain's future relations with its European partners.
