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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - After 21 days at a near-standstill, a global conference to toughen controls on nuclear arms enters its final week with prospects dimming for agreement on new ways to keep the ultimate weapons out of more hands.
Concerns over nuclear "breakouts" are growing. In Europe, diplomats this week resume difficult talks with Tehran to rein in an Iranian nuclear project that could help make bombs. In Asia, North Korea is pondering its next move in the tense maneuvering over its weapons plans.
In U.N. lounges and Manhattan hotel suites, meanwhile, diplomats bickered for weeks over simply defining the job at hand at their 188-nation conference, a twice-a-decade effort to strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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