US State Department rejects Kerry critique of Bush response to Darfur
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The US State Department refuted suggestions from Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry that the United States under President George W. Bush had been &quot;toothless&quot; in its response to the crisis in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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Sudan's U.N. ambassador challenged the United States to send troops to the Darfur region if it really believes a genocide is taking place as the U.S. Congress and President Bush's administration have determined.
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The United States and others will consider imposing a range of punitive measures against Sudan for its refusal to accept an international force into Darfur region, the State Department said on Tuesday.
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European states showed reluctance to agree with the US description of what is taking place in the Sudanese Darfur as a genocide. A spokesman for the German foreign ministry Walter Lendner said that Berlin
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Khartoum has dismissed charges that a US diplomat had been denied an entry visa and said the envoy would be welcome in Sudan as long as the mission was &quot;constructive,&quot; the foreign ministry said.
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The Sudanese foreign minister rejected on Friday a US declaration of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and said the United States was using a humanitarian crisis for political purposes.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell indignantly rejected any suggestion today that the United States&#39; response to the Asian earthquake and tsunami catastrophe had been insufficient
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Sudan is accusing the United States of using violence-torn Darfur to compete for voters heading to the polls in November. Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said Saturday that Washington&#39;s recent hard-line
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United States and Britain plan to push for a vote on a UN resolution sending peacekeeping troops to Darfur, despite a new rejection by Sudan yesterday of any deployment of UN troops there.
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The U.S. State Department on   Wednesday described as "unsatisfactory" Sudan's official reply   to a personal message sent by President George W. Bush for   Khartoum to accept a U.N. force in Darfur.
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The State Department on Thursday  repudiated comments by one of its officials who suggested the  U.S.-British "special relationship" was a myth, calling his  comments "ill-informed ... and just plain wrong."
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A renewed US push to end the tragedy in Sudan's Darfur region shows little promise of quick success, with Washington unwilling to put new teeth into its demand that the Khartoum government accept an aggressive UN peacekeeping force to halt the killing.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell declared Thursday that the United States views the killings, rapes and destruction of homes in the Darfur region of western Sudan
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The US stands by its claim of genocide in Darfur, in contrast to the findings of a United Nations report.
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The US State Department refused Wednesday to comment on calls for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign because of the oil-for-food scandal.
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Sudan said on Saturday the United  States was wrong to try to label the conflict in Darfur as  genocide and that recent hardline U.S. statements on Sudan were  aimed at domestic constituencies and the U.S. elections.
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US President W Bush defends his decision not to intervene in Darfur's "genocide", in a BBC interview.