France Suspends Hunting to Save Orphaned Bear Cub
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France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees on Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters earlier this week.
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Three tiny polar bear cubs are being allowed to starve to death after a zoo took the controversial decision not to rear them by hand if their mother continued to neglect them
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A unit of peacekeepers in Ivory Coast is suspended as the UN investigates allegations of serious sexual abuse.
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A five-week-old polar bear cub, which had to be taken away from its mother over fears it might be eaten, has been named after a public poll.
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PARIS, Feb. 1 -- The European Union said Friday it had postponed the deployment of a peacekeeping force to protect Darfur refugees because of an upsurge of rebel activity in neighboring Chad.
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Nine French citizens were arrested in Chad after a group tried to fly more than 100 African children to France, saying it wanted to save them from the crisis in neighboring Darfur, the French Foreign Ministry said.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has cancelled a trip to the south of France to hold an urgent meeting with three top ministers on the fate of two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq.
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Italian officials said Thursday that they will track a mother bear by satellite to keep her out of the trouble that led to her son's untimely death at the hands of hunters in Germany and caused an international uproar.
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AMERICAN FORK CANYON, Utah  - Hunters on Monday shot and killed a black bear thought responsible for the mauling death of an 11-year-old boy one day earlier in the rugged mountains in northern Utah, officials said.
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France is to suspend diplomatic contacts with Syria until progress is made on choosing a new Lebanese president.
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The traditional post-Christmas hunt in England and Wales is being held for what may be the last time before a ban.
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Police stopped villagers from slaughtering and eating a giraffe that strayed into the outskirts of the capital amid chronic food shortages caused by an economic crisis, the official media reported Saturday.
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The warning was dire: "The children will be dead in a few months," the French charity said of orphans in Darfur. It asked people to help by paying thousands of dollars to fly them out of the region's turmoil.
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France has decided to pull its special forces out of Afghanistan after a NATO-led stabilisation force extended operations to the whole country, the French defense ministry said on Sunday.
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Syria said on Wednesday it was  suspending diplomatic cooperation with France on ending the  political crisis in Lebanon, after similar action by Paris.
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Staff at Berlin&#39;s internationally renowned zoo were working to restore public confidence yesterday after a 110kg South American bear escaped from its enclosure and spent more than half an hour frolicking in a children&#39;s playground before being knocked out
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A ban on hunting critically endangered black rhinoceros has been lifted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, The Telegraph reported.