http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/ News from the non-aligned countries and progressive movements Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:44:27 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7749 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7749 Following the political deadlock between the Israelis and Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to take the matter directly to the U.N. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:44:35 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7748 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7748 The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year, Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:36:02 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7747 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7747 Amira Hass was spot on when she said last week that her lifetime women's award was an award for failure. The West Bank correspondent of the Israeli paper Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:34:52 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7746 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7746 The United States envoy to Afghanistan has written to Washington expressing deep concern over possible deployment of thousands of new troops to the country, Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:45:57 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7745 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7745 In a speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of Australia's human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger describes the "unique features" Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:36:27 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7744 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7744 The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during last winter?s military assault on the Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:28:15 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7743 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7743 ...while Pakistan's government may have been saying the things that the White House wants to hear, the country's media and public have often been openly Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:02:48 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7742 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7742 UN health experts are helping the Philippines contain an outbreak of a deadly disease in the wake of massive storms that claimed more than 1,000 lives Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:01:20 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7741 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7741 October 29, marks the 80th anniversary of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the event which most historians point to as the beginning of the Great Depression. On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:37:32 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7740 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7740 Dozens of people were wounded on Sunday in clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in and around the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a flashpoint Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:32:00 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7739 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7739 US President Barack Obama has declared swine flu to be a national emergency.The proclamation allows authorities to bypass bureaucratic procedures that would Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:40:08 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7738 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7738 Through nearly 5,000 different actions planned in 170 countries for Saturday, climate change activists will try to raise public awareness on the need for a new Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:35:02 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7737 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7737 Official figures released in Britain show the economy has contracted for a sixth successive quarter, making the country's current recession the longest since Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:34:32 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7736 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7736 Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has announced that presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on 24 January. His office said in a statement that Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:23:58 GMT Dave Muller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7735 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southnews/message/7735 Leftist Latin American leaders agreed here on the creation of a regional currency, the Sucre, aimed at scaling back the use of the US dollar. Nine countries of