Pressure on China as president heads to Sudan
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International pressure was on China to try its hand at peace diplomacy as Chinese President Hu Jintao headed to war-racked Sudan, the highlight of an eight-nation tour of Africa.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has touched down in the Sudan for talks in the crisis-ridden country. Mr Blair arrived in capital city Khartoum ready to urge the Sudanese government to end the slaughter that has
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Khartoum yesterday as the most senior official yet in a parade of Western government figures seeking to pressure the Sudanese over violence in Darfur.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao jets in to South Africa on Tuesday to buttress ties with Beijing's main trading partner on the continent and a key ally in pushing the developing world's agenda.
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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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As diplomats scramble to end the killing in Darfur, the crucial call could be Beijing's
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KHARTOUM, Aug 23  -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew into Khartoum, vowing to impress on Sudanese leaders the international community&#39;s growing concern over the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Saturday warned the West not to botch the handling of the crisis in the troubled southern region of Darfur as it did in Iraq.
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China was facing a major international crisis linked to the Olympics Thursday amid mounting pressure over its role in Darfur after US filmmaker Steven Spielberg severed his links to the Games.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao told Sudan's leader on Friday he must give the United Nations a bigger role in trying to resolve the conflict in Darfur and also said China wanted to do more business with its key African ally, Sudan state media reported.
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Steven Spielberg used his position as an artistic advisor for the 2008 Beijing Olympics to urge Chinese President Hu Jintao into pressure Sudan to accept UN peacekeepers. He also urged the Sudanese government to accept the peacekeepers. The UN peacekee...
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A group of British politicians called Monday on China to use its role as host of the 2008 Olympic Games to put pressure on Sudan over the Darfur conflict and to stop selling weapons to its government.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has flown to Khartoum on a mission to pile the pressure on the Sudanese government to tackle the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair was due to arrive in Sudan on a landmark visit during which he is to demand immediate action from the country's leaders over the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn western region of Darfur.
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Sudan will watch from a distance on Monday as world powers, including ally China, gather in Paris to seek ways to end the violence in Darfur, in a conference Khartoum rejects as a distraction from current peace efforts.
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The United States said it will push for a vote on its UN resolution on the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region, and offered strong words in the face of a possible veto from China.
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Legendary film director Steven Spielberg has appealed to Chinese President Hu Jintao for a second time to use China's influence over Sudan to end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.