US actor Clooney suggests Annan serve as Darfur peace envoy
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Oscar-winning US actor George Clooney suggested that UN chief Kofi Annan should serve as peace envoy to Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region after he leaves office at the end of the month.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon designated George Clooney as a U.N. "messenger of peace" Friday to promote the world body's activities, especially in its far-flung peacekeeping missions.
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The US envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, called on Saturday for Libya to help convince Khartoum to accept a UN force for its war-torn western region of Darfur.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has picked Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney, a passionate advocate for an end to war and famine in Sudan's Darfur region, as the world body's latest Messenger of Peace, an official said Friday.
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Nigeria's most prominent armed group Saturday urged George Clooney, the Hollywood actor named the latest UN Messenger of Peace, to work on solving the unrest in the Niger Delta.
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KHARTOUM : UN Secretary General Kofi Annan&#39;s envoy Jan Pronk said he would report back to the Security Council next on the situation in Darfur, the region of western Sudan devastated by 19 months of conflict.
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Outgoing UN chief Kofi Annan decided to send a senior adviser to Khartoum to clarify Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir's stance on a proposed Darfur peace plan and appointed a new interim special envoy to Sudan.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is sending a top aide to Sudan to press his case for bolstering an African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur with substantial U.N. resources, a spokesman said on Monday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan named a five-member panel on Thursday led by Italian  judge Antonio Cassese to investigate whether genocide has taken  place in Sudan's Darfur region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday to immediately address the escalating atrocities in Darfur by sending an independent team of investigators to the volatile Sudanese region.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  Â Militants in Nigeria's restive oil region on Saturday invited actor and peace activist George Clooney to visit the area and asked for U.N. intervention in their conflict.
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American actor George Clooney thanked France for its efforts in the Darfur crisis Sunday as he accepted a prestigious government award marking his achievements in cinema.
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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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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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CANNES, France  - The men of "Ocean's Thirteen" -- Brad Pitt, George Clooney and their crew -- have turned their Hollywood hype machine into a campaign to raise money for Darfur refugees.
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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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UNITED NATIONS  - Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the UN Security Council to take urgent action over a US draft resolution on Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region.