When an Amazonian tribe tried to regulate the mines on their territory, they invited the violence of modern life into their ...

Riffing on the opening of the Leonardo DiCaprio film "Blood Diamond," the State Department's own rock stars, Paul E. Simons, deputy assistant secretary for energy, sanctions and commodities, and Sue ...

Blood Diamond is a Hollywood thriller, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about the illegal gem trade. It doesn’t open for another couple of months, but the diamond industry has already launched a ...

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 ...

In an office in Santa Elena, deep in the Venezuelan jungle bordering Brazil and Guyana, a diamond trader inspects a rough gem under his magnifying glass. Surrounded by precious minerals, stuffed ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Diamond-producing Namibia launched an international advertising campaign on Friday to counter any adverse effect of the Warner Brothers thriller "Blood Diamond". The movie, ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Every year, consumers the world over unwittingly spend billions of dollars on diamonds crafted in Israel, thereby helping to fund one of the world’s most protracted and contentious conflicts. Most ...

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 ...