Wiesel urges swift action; Danny Glover arrested at Sudan embassy
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WASHINGTON, Aug 25  -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel urged the international community to take swift action to end the humanitarian crisis in Sudan&#39;s embattled Darfur region.
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A U.S. official was critically wounded  in a shooting attack on an embassy vehicle in Khartoum on  Tuesday and his Sudanese driver was killed, a Western  diplomatic source said.
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Kiefer Sutherland, who stars on the  hit TV thriller &quot;24&quot; as a secret agent with nerves of steel,  was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving on Tuesday, hours  before he was due to be honored by a Canadian actors&#39; union.
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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday strongly criticized Sudan's decision to promote to a government post a man Washington has accused of coordinating Darfur's marauding militias.
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Events in Ukraine continue to dominate the European papers. A Budapest daily takes everyone to task over the invalidated referendum on citizenship for ethnic Hungarians abroad. Two German dailies comment on Mr Schroeder's visit to China. And in France a sniffer dog forgets to sniff!
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New penalties against Sudan &#151; check. More dollars to fight AIDS in Africa &#151; check. A respected internationalist to lead the World Bank &#151; check. Friendly words about tackling global warming &#151; check.
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Kiefer Sutherland was arrested early Tuesday for investigation of misdemeanor drunken driving after he was stopped for making an illegal U-turn and failed a field sobriety test, authorities said.
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HAMBURG -- The decision by Munich prosecutors to press charges against CIA counterterrorism operatives for kidnapping a German citizen, Khaled el-Masri, won widespread applause last week from German politicians and the public. "The great ally is not allowed to simply send its thugs out into Europe's...
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German authorities arrest a Sudanese man on suspicion of spying on dissidents living abroad.
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American journalist Paul Salopek said he believes his arrest in Sudan was intended to be a message from that nation's government to foreign journalists to tone down their criticism of conditions in the African nation.
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Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover has been arrested outside the Sudan Embassy in Washington DC during a heated protest march. Glover - who was taken into custody by police yesterday - was charged with disorderly
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FRANKFURT, Germany U-S based human rights lawyers are asking German prosecutors to investigate the U-S attorney general nominee for possible war crimes.
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"At some point, it is a publicity stunt"  George Clooney welcomes the visit to Italy by Sudan's president, saying increased international contact with the Khartoum leadership could ease the plight of the millions who have fled their homes in Darfur.'The policy of not talking to them because they're unsavory hasn't been very effective,' the 46-year-old actor said in a telephone interview Thursday with The Associated Press.'So my hope is that having a conversation with this man can somehow further movement toward getting these people back into their homes, their villages.' Read more
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Today's topics include the theft of one of the world's most instantly recognisable paintings, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's welfare reforms and some advice from Madrid to Western entrepreneurs seeking to do business in Russia.
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Foreign Office minister Chris Mullin will today urgently press the government of Sudan to do more to halt the violence in Darfur. Mr Mullin, the Minister
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A South African photographer was arrested in Namibia on Wednesday for the second time in a week while trying to snap a picture of Hollywood superstars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
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U.S. and Sudanese security agents are  close to identifying a suspect in the shooting of an American  aid official and his driver in Khartoum, Sudan's Ministry of  Foreign Affairs said on Monday.