By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The shadow of North Korea's latest provocations for the moment has obscured Iran and its nuclear ambitions.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., April 16 (UPI) -- With the beat of war drums becoming a daily ritual in North Korea and as analysts struggle to assess what makes the natives restless, three points are worth considering.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 16 (UPI) -- Free trade has been a rock on the back of the U.S. economy and American workers and the Barack Obama strategy will only make things worse.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
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..
By Diane Loupe
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.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
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.
By Hajer Naili
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.
By Melissa Josephs
{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.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
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.
By MARTIN WALKER, UPI Editor Emeritus
PARIS, April 8 (UPI) -- We live in the age of central bankers, and hope they know what they are doing.
By Nancy Zeldis
{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.
By Hajer Naili
{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.
By Hajer Naili
NEW YORK {WOMENSENEWS}-- The 2003 Iranian Nobel Laureate said that the main obstacle for post-revolutionary Arab women is a "patriarchal culture" that imposes a false interpretation on Islam.
By Swapna Majumdar
NEW DELHI {WOMENSENEWS}-- And that can be life-saving in a place such as Gujarat, India, where 40 percent of brides are under 20 and anemia is a major threat. A three-year awareness campaign shows how much can be changed by education and information.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- Cyprus was headquarters for Russia’s new class of wealthy entrepreneurs – until disaster struck last month.
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