President Bashir of Sudan, who faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes in Darfur, is scheduled to arrive Sunday
in Turkey for an Islamic conference. Darfur groups want Bashir arrested.
The UN General Assembly passed a resolution Thursday calling for a probe into alleged war crimes by Israel and Hamas in last
winter's fighting in Gaza. The resolution is based on the UN Human Rights Council's Goldstone report.
As head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei says the world has not done well in preventing nuclear
proliferation. But ElBaradei has high hopes for the Obama administration.
North Korea said Tuesday that it has reprocessed 8,000 nuclear fuel rods – perhaps enough to build another nuclear bomb. US
officials say this was a violation of North Korea's commitments to nuclear disarmament talks.
It's amassing low-enriched uranium at the rate of 2.75 kilograms per day – enough to give Iran nuclear program enough feedstock
for two bombs by February, by one estimate.
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