Civil servants and students massed in the streets of Damascus and Aleppo on Monday to protest a U.N. report implicating Syria in the killing of a Lebanese leader, joining in a government-orchestrated campaign to drum up support before a U.N. Security Council meeting. The United States and Britain were pushing for the council to take a tough stand against Syria at a meeting today, but France said sanctions shouldn’t be voted on until investigators finish looking into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
U.N.: Kids overlooked in AIDS fight
Children have been overlooked in the global fight against AIDS, officials with the United Nations are warning as they release a report today saying that less than 5 percent of HIV-positive children have access to life-preserving drugs. An estimated 15 million children worldwide have lost at least one parent to AIDS, and only 10 percent of those children receive help from government or aid agencies, according to UNICEF. Fewer than 1 in 10 HIV-positive women get treatment to help prevent the virus from being transmitted to their children.
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