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Tue 06 Jun 2007International eyes focus on DarfurSUDAN:President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to inject a sense of urgency into the Darfur crisis yesterday when he received participants in a one-day international conference at the Élysée Palace."Tens of thousands of human beings are dying in that part of the world, and we cannot leave the situation as it is," the French president said. "Silence kills, and we want to mobilise the international community to say, 'That's enough'."