Pitt, Clooney, Cheadle move spotlight to Darfur
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CANNES, France  - Hollywood celebrities Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Don Cheadle have more than just acting in common -- they share a passion for trying to help people from the troubled Darfur region of Sudan.
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A major Hollywood studio and top US screen star unveil a new documentary addressing the bloody conflict that has raged without resolution for four years in in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region.
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Please be advised the Khartoum story reporting George Clooney had cut short his Darfur trip is wrong and has been withdrawn. Reuters will issue a substitute story shortly:
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Actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle said  world leaders must not be allowed to ignore the war in Darfur,  as they received an award by Nobel peace laureates for their  efforts to help civilians caught up in the conflict.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The Sudanese government faced intense Western and African Union pressure to accept additional observers and soldiers in the Darfur region, as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain flew to Sudan yesterday to urge the country to do more to disarm marauding militias.
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While most of the country&#39;s attention has been focused on Iraq, a human-rights crisis has been unfolding in north Africa. In Darfur, Sudan, more than 50,000 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in  Darfur, as a U.N. "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the  world body's peacekeeping efforts.
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Hollywood film star Mia Farrow arrived  in Central African Republic at the weekend seeking to draw  world attention to what aid workers call a "forgotten crisis"  worsened by spillover from war in Sudan's Darfur region.
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There has been increased interest among Americans in recent months in the ethnic conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. Following a visit by Colin Powell, millions of Americans who had little
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The struggle over human rights in Sudan's Darfur region is coming to New York, with speeches Thursday from Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel and actor George Clooney and a weekend demonstration at Central Park.
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George Clooney welcomes the visit to Italy by Sudan's president, saying increased international contact with the Khartoum leadership could ease the plight of the millions who have fled their homes in Darfur.
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A mini summit opened on Sunday night in Tripoli where the situation in Darfur was discussed. The Libyan leader, Muammar Qadhafi, had invited the presidents of Egypt, Chad, Sudan and Nigeria as well as the
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Actor George Clooney on Thursday warned the U.N.'s most powerful body Thursday that if it did not send peacekeepers to Sudan's Darfur region, millions would die in the first genocide of the 21st century.
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For a surrealistically &quot;feel-good&quot; version of the Rwandan genocide, check out the new Don Cheadle movie &quot;Hotel Rwanda,&quot; opening around the country on Dec. 22.
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Brad Pitt spent four days in Ethiopia to learn more about AIDS in Africa as part of a fund-raising campaign to combat the disease on the world's poorest continent.
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China urged activists linking its stance over Sudan to the Beijing Olympics to play fair and rebel groups in Darfur praised the decision by film director Steven Spielberg to quit as an artistic adviser to the Games.
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Oscar-winning US actor and director George Clooney and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel will address the UN Security Council Thursday on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, UN and US officials said.