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WHO revises estimates of fatality ratio in SARS cases

The United Nations health agency today revised its initial estimates of the case fatality ratio of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), saying that the proportion of people who contract illness, and then are likely to die from it, depends on factors such as the age group affected.

Annan meets with US's Powell, who says new Iraq resolution to come soon

After meeting with Secretary-General Kofi Annan today in New York, Secretary of State Colin Powell of the United States said a new resolution lifting sanctions against Iraq would be presented this week to the members of the Security Council, one that would also give the United Nations a vital role in the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.

East Asia-Pacific must invest more in children and mothers – UNICEF

Despite enormous economic and political progress in East Asia and the Pacific, too many countries there still fail their children in the “national and international disasters” of child malnutrition, maternal mortality, sexual exploitation and HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns in a report released today.

UN tribunal indicts two Serbs for crimes against humanity

The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted two former officials of Serbia's State Security Service for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war in the murder, persecution and deportation of non-Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia from 1991 to 1995.