Japan's coast guard to protect whalers from activists
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Japan's coast guard said Tuesday it has sent a team of officers to protect its whaling fleet against intensifying protests by environmentalists.
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Anti-whaling protesters lost in the  Southern Ocean on Friday after a clash with a Japanese whaling  ship tied their damaged boat to an iceberg for protection from  icy winds as they drifted in fog, media reported.
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Japan is dropping its much-criticized plan to kill protected humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, a media report said Friday.
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The Coast Guard plans to use dozens of buoys bobbing off United States coastlines to extend the reach of a security system that monitors large vessels heading in and out of ports.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Anti-whaling nations said on Monday they oppose Japan's proposal to permit whale hunting in its coastal communities and will push for Japanese concessions on other issues.
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Australia said Wednesday that Japan has agreed to release two activists detained after going aboard a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica, as whale hunters and defenders traded accusations of piracy.
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Japan expressed outrage on Friday after  anti-whaling activists poured acid on the decks of a whaling  ship in the Southern Ocean and slightly injured two crew  members, terming their activities "piratical, terrorist acts."
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A ship carrying militant anti-whaling activists was due to head back to Antarctic waters Thursday to resume harassing Japanese whalers, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said.
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Japan condemns anti-whaling activists who dropped acid onto the deck of a whaling ship in the Antarctic.
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Japanese whalers say they are trying to return two protesters detained after boarding their vessel.
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Environmental campaigner Greenpeace said a stricken Japanese whaler off the Antarctic coast had asked its protest ship Esperanza to stay close as fears of an ecological disaster mount.
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Australia said Thursday it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese harpoon vessel from a rubber boat in Antarctic waters, offering a solution to a tense, two-day standoff on the high seas.
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An anti-whaling group searching  Antarctic waters for a Japanese whaling fleet with the aim of  disrupting its operations said both its vessels will soon be  "pirate ships" following a decision by Britain to deregister  one its vessels.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday, while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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Science & environment: One of the activists held by Japanese whalers describes his ordeal on the Yushin Maru 2
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Japan has warned it des not rule out quitting the International Whaling Commission unless the divided group allows whaling within several years.
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Australia is to send an armed patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet.