US senate backs US$75 million for Africa troops in Sudan
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The United States senate has backed a measure that would provide an emergency US$75 million ($114.2 million) to finance efforts by African Union troops to try and restore peace in Sudan.
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TRENTON, NJ -- US Sen. Jon Corzine is scheduled to leave Sunday for a trip he hopes will take him to Sudan, where ethnic violence in the Darfur region has resulted in thousands of deaths and the displacement of 1.4 million people.
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Congress on Saturday approved a &#36;477 billion defense bill with a military pay raise and new money for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The United States and other nations are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping force into position in Sudan's Darfur region to halt the bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
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The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved a final US$422 billion ($631.64 billion) bill for defence programmes that backs next year&#39;s round of military base closings and kills a proposed US$23.
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A US Senate panel on Tuesday backed a $94 billion 2005 spending bill which included an extra $800 million to fund space projects next year.
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Sudan has backed away from a warning to dozens of countries not to pledge troops to a U.N. force for Darfur, the United States said on Friday.
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The United States said Friday it is donating 97 million dollars (69 million euros) to Ethiopia in recognition of the Horn of Africa country&#39;s &quot;strategic importance.&quot;
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The United States is pushing for an expanded African Union force to monitor the cease-fire in Sudan's troubled Darfur region and will support sanctions against Khartoum if the government resists, U.S. Ambassador John Danforth said.
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The United States welcomed on Friday Sudanese official&#39;s announcement to accept a larger AfricanUnion (AU) mission in the western region of Darfur and urged the speedy deployment of AU troops.
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N&#39;DJAMENA, Chad As Bill Frist, the majority leader of the US Senate, was interviewing Darfurian refugees in Chad earlier this month, the Sudanese government and Arab janjaweed forces attacked a number of black Darfurian villages just a few miles away
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The United States is pushing for prompt UN Security Council approval of a resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan for failing to protect civilians in Darfur.
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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 Senate voted Tuesday to provide $70 billion for U.S. military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing a victory to President Bush and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill.
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President Bush yesterday signed legislation that authorises $300 million to help victims of violence and support peace talks in the African nation of Sudan.
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The United States declared on  Thursday that the violence in Sudan's Darfur region amounted to  genocide and urged the world to back an expanded African  peacekeeping force to halt the bloodshed.
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The United States has produced a revised version of its United Nations draft resolution on the crisis in the Darfur region in Sudan.