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Police have again arrested Zimbabwe's most prominent opposition figure, a day after security forces allowed a memorial to take place for a slain opposition activist. Violence against the government's political opponents has galvanized opposition to President Robert Mugabe.

Arab leaders are gathering in Riyadh for a summit conference that may reaffirm a five-year-old offer of peace with Israel. The plan, drafted by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah when he was crown prince, calls for Israel to withdraw from territory it took in the 1967 war.

An Australian detainee takes a first step toward getting out of the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. David Hicks has pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism. His lawyers say he will be allowed to serve his sentence in Australia.

The U.N. Security Council votes to toughen sanctions on Iran, which is being punished for refusing to halt its uranium-enrichment programs. The measures approved Saturday include a ban on exports of firearms.

Police in Zimbabwe this week attacked members of the opposition group Movement for Democratic Change. In neighboring South Africa, response has been muted to brutality attributed to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.

The six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program have broken down in China, and Pyongyang's negotiator has left Beijing. The impasse revolves around North Korean funds frozen in a bank in Macau. The country refuses to talk until the account is released.

North Korea says it is ready to shut down its main nuclear reactor, which has produced plutonium for its nuclear weapons program. But the country is also calling on the United States to lift financial sanctions. Mohamed El Baradei, head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, returned from the country Wednesday.

A year ago, Dr. Ali Hamdani wanted to leave Iraq, but he predicted he would need a year to obtain the necessary papers. He was right. Now he's set to depart, and still wary of last-minute perils. Hamdani reflects on the hardest part of all: leaving the only country he's ever known.

France's Louvre is opening a branch in the Middle East. In a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars, one of the United Arab Emirates will get to use exhibits from, and the name of, the Louvre. But critics say the deal is nothing more than crass commercialism.

Saturday's meeting between Iraq, its neighbors and the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council produced the first public contact between officials of the U.S. and Iran since 2004.