As a means to drive home its chief argument – that the 14-carat rock on your fiancée’s ring finger might be little more than a blood-drenched byproduct of an African civil war – the stringent ...

Djimon Hounsou stars as Solomon Vandy in ’Blood Diamond’ from Warner Bros. Pictures. Good intentions are no substitute for good drama. Edward Zwick’s “Blood Diamond” has no shortage of earnest ...

In the ambitious, sweeping and sometimes moving Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick aims to fuse recent history with mass-scale entertainment. That’s nothing new for Hollywood, and the story of the wages of ...

What a fuss a number can make -- one little number. And here it is: Fewer than 1 percent of diamonds on the market today are "conflict diamonds." The number seems surprising, considering all the ...

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They say a diamond is forever. From today, and for now, that also includes blood diamonds. On Monday the respected rights and commerce watchdog Global Witness announced it was quitting the ...

LOS ANGELES /*Naomi Campbell*/, who is famous for her hot temper as much as she is for her modeling, is refusing to answer questions about allegations that she accepted a blood diamond from former ...

Blood diamonds are stones mined in war zones and sold to fund violence and armed groups. They became widely known during ...

Having already roiled the diamond industry, "Blood Diamond" arrives with the best of intentions, harrowing sequences but ultimately mixed results. Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou deliver powerful ...

“T.I.A.,” mutters Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), slouched across a bar in Sierra Leone. It is 1999. As the West obsesses over Clinton’s blow job, the West African nation is mired in a savage civil ...