OneWorld.net (U.S.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 6 (New America Media) - Perhaps the most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the 12 people who died in the melee will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (OneWorld.net) - Climate analysts are calling on the Obama administration to use an international finance meeting this week to press for a swift end to subsidies for coal, oil, and natural gas companies around the world.

JAKARTA, Nov 4 (IRIN) - Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say.

CANCUN, Nov 3 (IPS) - With HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis occupying the global health spotlight, few resources are devoted to the "neglected tropical diseases" like dengue fever, hookworm infection and schistosomiasis that afflict some 1 billion people.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 2 (New America Media) - My nine years in the military, including four years as a cadet at West Point and almost two years deployed to Iraq where I was awarded the Bronze star, came to an abrupt end when the Army discharged me under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

HANOI, Oct 30 (IRIN) - While residents in Vietnam's low-lying coastal provinces were riding out Typhoon Ketsana, few knew that upriver the storm had unleashed a new hazard.

NAIROBI, Oct 29 (IRIN) - Flash floods caused by four days of torrential rains have displaced more than 15,000 people in the southwestern town of El-Waq near the Kenyan border and submerged most homes and businesses, say locals.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 28 (New America Media) - What do the health care proposals being discussed in Congress have in store for legal immigrants?

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27 (New America Media) - Is immigration reform back?

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Oct 26 (IRIN) - Thousands of displaced children from South Waziristan have received measles vaccinations for the first time.