Australia slams Japanese over whaling
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Australia's government on Thursday released graphic pictures of Japanese hunters harpooning whales and dragging their bleeding carcasses onto a ship near Antarctica, calling it evidence of the "indiscriminate" slaughter of the animals.
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Japan and Australia on Tuesday slapped fresh economic sanctions on North Korea, triggering protests from China that the move would worsen the standoff over Pyongyang's weapons programs.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica, the government announced Wednesday.
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Australia sent a customs ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists held on board a Japanese whaler as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd moved Thursday to end a tense standoff in the Antarctic.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the countryâs fleet, a Japanese official said.
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ELEANOR HALL: An international conservation group is today launching an unprecedented legal action, alleging that a Japanese whaling company has been killing protected whales inside Australia&#39;s Whale Sanctuary.
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Australian journalist Ben Hills has lashed out at the Japanese government, likening it to North Korea, after a publisher backed down on releasing his biography on Crown Princess Masako.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Sunday said the threat of diplomatic action from Tokyo would not stop his government from gathering evidence against Japanese whalers to help stop the slaughter of the animals.
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Japan denounces a US resolution calling on Tokyo to apologise over wartime sex slaves.
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Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith was due Thursday in Japan as part of his first foreign trip since taking office, amid a bitter feud between the allies over whaling.
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New Zealand has pressed Japan to move a crippled and burning whaling ship away from the Antarctic coast, fearing an ecological disaster if it remains there.
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Using the military to track Japanese whalers as part of Australia's anti-whaling campaign could cause a diplomatic rift with Tokyo, an opposition politician warned Friday.
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An Australian judge Tuesday granted an activist group's request to ban a Japanese company from whaling in an Australian-declared animal sanctuary off Antarctica.
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A Japanese whaling ship on fire off the  coast of Antarctica has sparked fears of an environmental  disaster if the ship's 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and chemicals  leaks.
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Australia welcomed Saturday Japan's backdown on plans to hunt humpbacks but said it had still lodged a formal protest with Tokyo calling for an end to all whaling.
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Australia has sent a customs ship to retrieve two activists who were seized by a Japanese whaling vessel, the country's foreign minister said.
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The International Whaling Commission passes a resolution condemning Japan's Antarctic whale hunt.