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The National

Concerns over diamond trade begin anew
The National
These beautiful gemstones returned to the news this winter, when the natural-resource monitors Global Witness issued a warning about the processes designed to keep corrupt diamonds off the market. Often called "blood diamonds" due to their use as a ...
US dampens hopes of swift blood diamonds overhaulDefenceWeb (press release)
Angolan Diamonds and Human RightsJewelers Circular Keystone Online (blog)
Botswana Army Chief Commends Local Indigenisation PolicyAllAfrica.com

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Cinema Blend

Man Of Steel's Henry Cavill May Help Edward Zwick Build The Great Wall
Cinema Blend
Blood Diamond: the story of conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone told through the eyes of a white guy. So what's his next project going to be? Of course, it's the story of how the Great Wall was built...through the eyes of a white guy.
Henry Cavill Investigating 'The Great Wall' Directed by Edward ZwickFirst Showing

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US dampens hopes of swift blood diamonds overhaul
Reuters Africa
By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A review of a global scheme to monitor blood diamonds could bring changes to the Kimberley Process, under fire over its damaging loopholes, but the United States on Tuesday dampened hopes of a swift and ...

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Apple's 'blood diamond' moment
The Seattle Times
Are our shiny iPhones and iPads little different from the "blood diamonds" mined and sold to finance bloody insurgencies in Africa? Yes: United States policy under presidents Clinton and George W. Bush banned importation of these ill-gotten gains.

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US takes helm of troubled 'blood diamond' monitor
Fox News
WASHINGTON – The United States is taking over the leadership of the international body charged with monitoring and preventing the sale of blood diamonds, just a month after a major human rights watchdog quit, accusing the group of refusing to address ...

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The Zimbabwean

Zimbabwe diamonds not blood diamonds , says KPCS chair
Africalegalbrief
The statement deals a blow to Western-sponsored NGOs' efforts to have the gems branded blood diamonds. Ambassador Milovanovic said Cote d'Ivoire was the only country dealing in conflict diamonds. Marange diamonds have brought stiff competition on the ...
Newly-Appointed Chair of the Kimberley Process (KP) for 2012Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Kimberley Process Looks at Core Objectives and Definitions
Rapaport
It was launched in 2003 in order to stem the flow of conflict diamonds that were funding rebel groups. It is a process that operates by consensus, and therefore, seeking consensus, fostering the ability to come together and to make decisions in order ...

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AFP

UN 'blood diamond' group aims to salvage campaign
AFP
WASHINGTON — The new chief of the UN-sponsored Kimberley Process that aims to stop "blood diamonds" reaching market said she was in talks to regain support of a campaign group that recently quit the scheme. Kimberley Process chairwoman Gillian ...

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KPCS Must Treat Govt Fairly and With Due Respect
AllAfrica.com
The admission by the chairperson of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic that Zimbabwe's diamonds are not blood diamonds should put to rest Western interference in the trade of our gems. Zimbabwe has always argued ...

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Lexington Herald Leader

New blood in director's chair helps 'Twilight series'
Lexington Herald Leader
Older films on Blu-ray: Lady and the Tramp: Diamond Edition ($39.99); It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ($19.99); Casino Royale (1967; $19.99); Dangerous Liaisons ($19.98); A Star Is Born (1937): Kino Classics ($24.95, $29.95). Music: The Phantom of the ...

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