US Darfur envoy heads to Khartoum, threatens 'Plan B'
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US President George W. Bush's personal envoy returns to Sudan after warning Khartoum to meet a January 1 deadline to accept a plan to deploy UN peacekeepers to Darfur or face tougher action to end atrocities in the war-torn region.
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The United States and Britain must stop   making threats over the crisis in Sudan's vast Darfur region   because the government in Khartoum knows they can't back them   up with action, a leading British diplomat said on Friday.
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A key report on war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region is triggering an intense diplomatic battle between the United States and Europe on how to prosecute perpetrators of pillage, slaughter and rape.
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The US warns that the international community is "getting nowhere" in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur.
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The United States plans to announce tough new sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday before working out a resolution in the United Nations in an intensified effort to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Sudan risks falling into  Somalia-style anarchy if peace talks aimed at ending separate  crises in Darfur and the south fail and embolden more factions  to take up arms, the top U.S. envoy to Sudan said Friday.
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The UN envoy to Sudan has tried to ease the pressure on Khartoum after a flurry of indictments of the government's failure to end the crisis in Darfur drew irate reactions from President Omar al-Beshir.
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The United States said on Friday it is preparing a new UN resolution on Darfur and that Secretary of State Colin Powell might address next week whether the violence in western Sudan constitutes genocide.
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Sudan's government is once more bombing the troubled western region of Darfur, a US envoy says.
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The US and Britain are considering enforcing a no-fly zone over Sudan's war-torn Darfur region if the Khartoum government does not allow a UN-led peacekeeping force in, the State Department said.
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The top U.S. envoy for Darfur on Friday accused the Sudanese government of bombing civilian targets in its war-ravaged western region and rebels of cynically obstructing international efforts to end the conflict.
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Sudanese President Omar Hassan  al-Bashir, under international pressure over wartorn Darfur,  said on Sunday his government would impose a travel ban on U.S.  officials that would confine them to the capital Khartoum.
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The United States is set to impose fresh sanctions on Sudan over the conflict in Darfur, officials say.
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The United States demanded an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday over a letter in which Sudan's government said it would view any troop commitments to a future force in Darfur as a "hostile act" and a "prelude to an invasion."
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The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, is due to arrive in Khartoum today to add to the diplomatic pressure on the Sudanese government to stop the suffering of its people in the Darfur region.
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The United States has drafted a new UN resolution threatening oil sanctions against Sudan if Khartoum does not stop abuses in Darfur and accept an expanded African Union monitoring force with more powers.
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The United States next week  intends to tell Sudan and its southern opposition that offers  of aid may be withdrawn if an agreement is not signed soon to  end Africa's longest-running civil war, its U.N. ambassador  said.