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PARIS, April 15 (UPI) -- The euro crisis is looking like death by a thousand cuts. Just when you thought Cyprus was resolved, a new crisis has broken out in Portugal..
Bookkeeper overbooked but not raising fees
ATLANTA {WOMENSENEWS}-- Dee Jay Beard earns slightly less than the average bookkeeper and is bursting with business. She could probably ask for more, but so many of her clients are small businesses that suffered in the economic downturn that she's kept her fees in check.
Tougher gun laws won't much stem violence
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 11 (UPI) -- With the U.S. Senate will likely to vote on a bill to toughen gun controls, Americans should remember the effectiveness of government regulations has limits.
Femen's Islam-bashing disregards Muslim feminism
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- The April 4 agitations of the breast-baring iconoclasts serve few Muslim feminists. Many of us are pro-women and pro-Islam and we insist on that fusion.
WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) -- Given the antics of Kim Jung Un, it is hard to know how serious or desperate the current situation on the Korean Peninsula is.
Equal pay isn't enough; let's also make it fair
{WOMENSENEWS}-- On April 9 we mark Equal Pay Day, a time for spurring the modernization of the Equal Pay Act. But let's not stop there. Let's also attack the problems of low-paid work and volatile scheduling that hold back millions of female workers.
HERNDON, Va., April 9 (UPI) -- During his unannounced trip to Baghdad last month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to seek greater assistance in monitoring flights from Iran to Syria flying through Iraqi airspace.
WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. has lost the media war in Pakistan. Popular talk show hosts have already made up their minds that America is preparing a war against their country.
PARIS, April 8 (UPI) -- We live in the age of central bankers, and hope they know what they are doing.
SAT revision stokes fears of wider math gap
{WOMENSENEWS}-- As the college test-prep industry buzzes with anticipation over the new exam, some tutors and college admissions counselors say there's a chance the decades' long trend in higher male math scores could intensify.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Labor Department announced the U.S. economy only created 88,000 jobs in March as many more adults quit looking for work than found jobs -- for many Americans, good job remain tough to find.
WASHINGTON, April 5 (UPI) -- If Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma then Ukraine must be even more so.
Islamic extremists alarm secular women in Tunisia
{WOMENSENEWS}-- Tensions are rising between secular Tunisian women and political Islam. "There is no room for the opposition and women to participate in building the country we want," says one critic.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 4 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department to report Friday that the U.S. economy added 193,000 jobs in March. This is in line with the pace of recent months but hardly enough to lower unemployment down to acceptable levels.
LINCOLN, Calif., April 4 (UPI) -- Governors of Oregon and Washington asked for unprecedented "life-cycle impact" analysis of five export terminals and the cargo being transported through them.
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A festival attendee arrives on the red carpet before the screening of the film "The Great Gatsby" during opening night of the 66th annual Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 15, 2013. UPI/David Silpa