The gem trade, fearing sales won't sparkle, campaigns against `Blood Diamond.' "BLOOD DIAMOND," Ed Zwick's film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly, doesn't open until Dec. 15, but it's already getting more free publicity than Warner Bros. could have dreamed of. Set in the late '90s when rebel militias seized control of Sierra Leone's diamond mines, selling rough
Diamonds mined in the rebel-held north of war-divided Ivory Coast are being sold through neighbouring Ghana and Mali in breach of a United Nations ban on Ivorian sales, a U.N. report said.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The ZigBee Alliance released an updated specification Wednesday (Sept. 27) that should help system developers targeting the home automation market.
Chapter One "Any questions?" chief prosecutor Janet McNeil asked the insolent young man slouched across from her. His cuffed hands shifted behind him at the scarred table in the private conference room.