Sudan must stop trying to limit Darfur force: Rice
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Sudan must stop trying to &quot;scale back&quot; a  hybrid international force for Darfur, U.S. Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice said as she flew to Paris for talks on the  humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region.
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A U.S.-backed United Nations resolution threatening oil sanctions for the violence in Sudan's Darfur region will only make it harder for the government to calm the insurrection there, a Sudanese official said Sunday.
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President George W. Bush on Tuesday ordered U.S. sanctions tightened against Sudan's government for its refusal to stop the violence in the Darfur region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the U.N. Security Council took turns Monday demanding swift intervention to ease the mounting humanitarian crisis in Darfur, but the Sudanese government again resisted a U.N. peacekeeping force.
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The United Nations proposed on  Wednesday a quick and "substantially" larger international  force in Sudan's Darfur region, saying Khartoum had failed to  stop attacks against civilians by Arab militia.
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Sudan blunted U.S. pressure to accept  U.N. troops in Darfur, sidelining Washington's top diplomat on  Africa on Monday ahead of a critical U.N. Security Council  debate on taming Sudan's violent western region.
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The leader of southern Sudan's  main rebel group called on Tuesday for up to 30,000 Sudanese  and international troops to stop the fighting in Darfur,  demobilize combatants and institute power-sharing.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan has pledged to halt military operations in Darfur, a United Nations spokeswoman said Sunday, but African Union officials said the government had kept up attacks on rebels in the region.
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In announcing new U.S. sanctions on Sudan yesterday, President Bush made clear his frustration with the inability of his administration and the United Nations to halt the violence in Darfur, which he has described as ongoing "genocide."
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Britain will push for tougher U.N. sanctions against Sudan if its government does not support international efforts to end the conflict in Darfur, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday.
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia  - U.S. Secretary of State   Condoleezza Rice said on Monday she had urged Sudan's   government "in the strongest possible terms" to accept a U.N.   force in its troubled Darfur region.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Sudan's government kept up attacks on rebels in Darfur last night, defying a deadline set by African Union mediators for an end to active hostilities, AU officials said.
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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 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 United States urged Sudan's  Islamist rulers on Saturday to curb Arab militia attacks in  Darfur and said peace efforts in the turbulent west should draw  strength from an imminent end to a civil war in the south.
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UNITED NATIONS/KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The United  States piled pressure on Sudan Wednesday to accept a more  powerful monitoring force in Darfur with a new U.N. draft  resolution threatening sanctions on its oil industry.
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The United States pressed Sudan's  government on Monday to stop its latest military action in the  western Darfur region and remove any obstacles preventing full  deployment of U.N.-African Union peacekeepers.