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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - European nations look unlikely to meet an urgent U.N. call to provide military helicopters for a peacekeeping force planned for Darfur, saying their armies are already stretched by missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo and other hot spots.
More than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million uprooted from their homes in Sudan's western Darfur region since a rebellion broke out in 2003, and many European governments have said they support deploying the peacekeeping force.
Despite the verbal support, no one has offered any of the 24 helicopters sought by U.N. officials.
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