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The United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa talks about the current state of the AIDS crisis there. He recently returned from a tour of Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia, where he was investigating links between hunger and AIDS. He is the former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and was the Canadian ambassador to the U.N. from 1984-1988.

A U.N. envoy who met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says there will be a Syrian timetable early next week for withdrawal from Lebanon. The U.S., France and Russia are among nations pressing Syria to remove its troops.

After months of negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran agrees to suspend a key part of its nuclear program. The U.S. has remained on the sidelines of the talks, and has indicated it may still bring the issue to the U.N. Security Council. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that Slobodan Milosevic lashed out against the U.N. war crimes tribunal today on the second day of his war crimes trial. The former Yugoslav president called the trial a "lynch process," and challenged the tribunal's jurisdiction. Milosevic is charged with crimes against humanity, including genocide, for his role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

U.N. weapons inspectors, foreign diplomats and journalists leave Baghdad in anticipation of possible war. In Kuwait, about 235,000 U.S. troops and 45,000 British troops move into position and prepare for a possible invasion of Iraq. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with U.N. envoy to Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi about Iraq's future. Brahimi admits the United States will continue to have a significant presence there, but puts a great deal of faith in Iraq's newly announced government.

NPR's Eric Westervelt in Baghdad reports on reaction among Iraqis to the beheading of American businessman Nicholas Berg. A video of the beheading by masked militants was carried on some Arabic language satellite television networks. Many Iraqis say they were horrified by the act, which they called "un-Islamic."

NPR's Ann Cooper reports that the man designated to be the next Secretary- General of the United Nations received congratulations from around the globe today. The UN General Assembly yesterday confirmed Kofi Annan of Ghana, a West African country, to replace the outgoing Secretary-General, Egyptian diplomat Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that despite reports from northern Iraq that some Iraqi troops have dug-in south of Irbil and that rival Kurdish groups were still clashing, US officials insist the Iraqi army is standing down and withdrawing from the UN air-patrolled area of northern Iraq.

Kate Seelye in Beirut reports the U.N. Secretary General is expected in Lebanon soon to discuss efforts to arrange the release of 3 Israeli soldiers, captured by Hizbollah guerrillas during a border clash last Saturday. Hizbollah wants to swap the Israelis for Arab prisoners held in Israel, but the exact terms of the exchange are far from clear.