Good morning, WMPW readers! The European Union’s top diplomat led a key mission to Iran, designer Victoria Beckham has a new business line, and three women from the University of Connecticut’s basketball team set yet another record. Got some buzz on a powerful woman? Get in touch, at: laura.cohn@gmail.com or @laurascohn. Happy Monday!
[bs-content]Federica Mogherini, the European Union's top diplomat, led a high-powered visit to Tehran. The visit included seven commissioners--the largest EU delegation in over a decade. While in Tehran, Mogherini said it was crucial that banks from Europe start doing business again in the country. She also said the EU would press Iran on human rights violations, and she criticized Tehran's ballistic missile tests in the wake of last year's nuclear deal. Mogherini was a key player in the talks that produced the recent nuclear agreement with Iran.[/bs-content]
[bs-link link="http://www.wsj.com/articles/eus-mogherini-affirms-support-for-closer-banking-ties-with-iran-1460804651" source="Wall Street Journal"]
[bs-share text="Back to Iran" link="http://www.wsj.com/articles/eus-mogherini-affirms-support-for-closer-banking-ties-with-iran-1460804651"]
EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
[bs-title]An illegal handshake?[/bs-title] [bs-content]In other Iranian news, the nation has barred Minoo Khaleghi, a new female member of parliament, from the governing body for allegedly shaking hands with a man she's not related to. Iran's Islamic law makes such an action illegal. Khaleghi, an environmentalist, has denied the claim. Earlier this year, Khaleghi was among the 14 women elected to Iran's 290-seat legislature.[/bs-content] [bs-link link="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/15/iran-bars-female-mp-for-shaking-hands-with-unrelated-man" source="Guardian"] [bs-seperator]
[bs-title]Makeup like Beckham[/bs-title] [bs-content]Designer Victoria Beckham has a new business: makeup. The former Spice Girl is joining forces with Est?e Lauder to create Victoria Beckham Est?e Lauder, a new makeup collection likely to launch in September. Since Beckham debuted her high-end fashion label in 2008, her designs have garnered positive reviews.[/bs-content] [bs-link link="http://fortune.com/2016/04/15/victoria-beckham-estee-lauder/" source="Fortune"] [bs-seperator]
[bs-title]Not funny anymore[/bs-title] [bs-content]German Chancellor Angela Merkel has given German officials the nod to begin a criminal investigation into comedian Jan B?hmermann, who wrote an off-color poem about the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The move angered free speech supporters in Germany.[/bs-content] [bs-link link="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/216e723c-02fa-11e6-99cb-83242733f755.html#axzz464ScNX8N" source="Financial Times"]
ASIA-PACIFIC
[bs-title]Tweeting in China[/bs-title] [bs-content]Twitter has appointed tech veteran Kathy Chen as the new managing director of its Greater China office in Hong Kong. While Twitter has been banned in mainland China for seven years, the company opened a Hong Kong office just over a year ago.[/bs-content] [bs-link link="http://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/1936051/twitter-appoints-new-greater-china-head-number-chinese-advertisers" source="South China Morning Post"] [bs-seperator]
[bs-title]Now for the hard part[/bs-title] [bs-content]For Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar who created the new role of "state counselor" for herself, the road ahead won't be easy. Suu Kyi, who took the title because of a constitutional rule that bars anyone with foreign children from becoming president, still has to deal with the country's military, which has control of several crucial ministries. So while she managed to beat back the military's opposition to her new role, she still has to cope with its presence in the government.[/bs-content] [bs-link link="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/17/can-myanmars-lady-realise-countrys-dreams" source="Guardian"]
THE AMERICAS
[bs-title]Inching toward impeachment[/bs-title] [bs-content]Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was hit with another setback. By a vote of 367-137, the country's lower house of congress approved a measure that will move the impeachment process to the Senate, where her odds of prevailing are not good.[/bs-content] [bs-link link="http://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-lower-house-votes-in-favor-of-impeaching-president-dilma-rousseff-1460945357" source="Wall Street Journal"] [bs-seperator]
[bs-title]Green Google[/bs-title] [bs-content]Rebecca Moore, a Google exec, is using technology to improve the environment. Moore, director of Google Earth, Google Earth Engine, and Google Earth Outreach, says she hopes someday real time data from Earth Engine will provide a "living breathing dashboard for the planet." In the meantime, Google has used sensors on its Street View cars to help the Environmental Defense Fund track methane leaks from pipes found underground.[/bs-content] [bs-link link="http://time.com/4295351/rebecca-moore-google-earth-outreach/" source="Time"] [bs-seperator]
[bs-title]Hill as heroine[/bs-title] [bs-content]The TV show "Confirmation," which recounts lawyer Anita Hill's role in Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings in 1991, depicts the challenges of being an American who's both black and female. While the makers of the show--including actress Kerry Washington, who plays Hill--say the film does not take a side, Hill comes out as the heroine.[/bs-content] [bs-link link="http://fortune.com/2016/04/16/hbo-confirmation-anita-hill/" source="Fortune"] [bs-seperator]
[bs-title]Scoring a hat trick at the draft[/bs-title] [bs-content]Three women from the University of Connecticut's champion basketball team--Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck--were the top picks in the WNBA draft. It was the first time three players from the same school scored the top consecutive slots.[/bs-content][bs-link link="http://www.si.com/nba/2016/04/13/uconn-womens-basketball-wnba-draft-breanna-stewart-moriah-jefferson" source="Sports Illustrated"]
IN BRIEF
[bs-title size="small"]Hillary Clinton's new ad takes aim at Donald Trump[/bs-title][bs-link link="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/us/politics/in-hillary-clinton-ad-a-more-direct-swipe-at-donald-trump.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well" source="New York Times"]
[bs-title size="small"]A kickboxing champ just launched a line of sports hijabs[/bs-title] [bs-link link="http://www.elle.com/culture/news/a35649/ruqsana-begum-sports-hijabs/" source="Elle"]
[bs-title size="small"]Belgian transport minister Jacqueline Galant resigns over airport security failure[/bs-title] [bs-link link="http://time.com/4295725/belgiums-transport-minister-resigns/?xid=homepage" source="Time"]
[bs-title size="small"]Beyonce posts teaser for Lemonade, dubbed a "world premiere event" on HBO[/bs-title] [bs-link link="http://fortune.com/2016/04/16/beyonce-lemonade-hbo/" source="Fortune"]
PARTING WORDS
[bs-quote link="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=167556&subid=18468311&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2" author="-- Monica Lewinsky"] A lot of vicious things that happen online to women and minorities do happen at the hands of men. But they also happen at the hands of women. Women are not immune to misogyny.[/bs-quote]
