1.   Now, De Beers is using the controversy over so-called blood diamonds to advance a strategic switch to address its commercial problems.

2.   The essential mystique of its product, nurtured over decades of artful image-building and brawny cartel management, seemed threatened by association with these so-called blood diamonds.

3.   Then, De Beers hit upon a way to use the controversy over blood diamonds to address its commercial problems.

4.   Congo plans to organize a scheme to certify that its exports are clean of blood diamonds, but analysts were cautious in predicting its effectiveness.

5.   The industry also promised severe penalties for dealers who break the rules and buy or sell blood diamonds.

6.   U.N. sanctions on conflict diamonds, so-called blood diamonds, were instituted in large part to cut the flow from Sierra Leone.

7.   Belgium said Thursday it has arrested and detained Sanjivan Ruprah, a Kenyan national named in a UN report into blood diamonds and the war in Sierra Leone.