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The Security Council has voted to change the United Nation's role in South Sudan from nation building to civilian protection. Thousands of civilians have been killed in months of ethnic fighting.

As inspectors continue looking for weapons in Iraq, the U.N. and the United States begin to examine the country's official response to charges it has ongoing weapons programs. Iraq says it has no weapons of mass destruction. The Bush Administration says Iraq is lying. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and Vicky O'Hara.

The U.N. special envoy for AIDS in Africa praises President Bush's pledge to combat global AIDS. Half of the $15 billion program would be spent on treatment, a third on prevention and the rest on care. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Rachel Swarns of The New York Times.

Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix tells the Security Council that Iraq has not genuinely accepted disarmament. Meanwhile, chief nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei says inspectors have found no evidence so far that Iraq has renewed its nuclear weapons program. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

Russian, French and German leaders wind up two days of meetings held to discuss postwar Iraq, and reassert their demands for a leading U.N. role in postwar affairs. But the chief opponents of the U.S.-led war cautiously welcome the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

A senior U.N. envoy wraps up a week of talks with Iraqi leaders with an apparent consensus on the need for elections later this year to choose members of a transitional national assembly. The fate of U.S. plans to transfer sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government by the end of June remain in doubt. NPR's Deborah Amos reports from Baghdad.

During a two-day open debate, countries without seats on the 15-member U.N. Security Council speak out against a possible war with Iraq. Some countries, including Switzerland, South Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia, appeal to the council to give arms inspectors more time to disarm Iraq. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

In Geneva, Switzerland, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council discuss a U.S.-backed resolution which would give the U.N. a larger role in post-war Iraq. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Robert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the resolution's prospects.

"Harmful health advice and snake-oil solutions are proliferating," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said. "Wild conspiracy theories are infecting the Internet. Hatred is going viral."

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says people from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are subject to persecution and should not be forced to return home.