Britain vows to rein in animal rights activists
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The British government announced plans to introduce legislation preventing activists from harassing scientists engaged in animal research.
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British foxhunters failed to overturn a  ban on their ancient sport on Friday but vowed to fight on in  court, sparing Prime Minister Tony Blair rowdy protests in the  run-up to an election expected in May.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Friday expressed hope for a code of conduct linking arms exports to human rights ahead of an expected decision later this year to lift the EU arms embargo on China.
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Animal rights activists could face five years in prison for targeting research centres under new measures.
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LONDON, Feb. 7 -- At least six people have been injured by seven letter bombs in Britain over the past three weeks, in what police said could be a campaign by animal rights extremists or a disgruntled motorist fed up with this country's automobile laws -- or both.
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A new political party campaigning for animal rights across the UK is to be launched.
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Defeated in Parliament, British hunting supporters looked to the courts Friday to uphold their right to chase foxes. Some hunting supporters have threatened to disobey a new hunting ban after it takes effect on Feb. 18.
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An  animal rights campaigner held over the desecration of an 82-year-old woman's grave condemns the attack.
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Fox-hunting supporters are preparing a five-year campaign on three battlefronts to overturn the ban on the sport imposed last week by the House of Commons.
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LONDON, Aug 13 (IPS) - After years of condemning torture in other   countries, Britian could now be approving it as official policy.
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Britain will give priority to tackling global poverty, climate change and the AIDS epidemic when it assumes the presidency of the Group of Eight nations in 2005, the government said.
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Greg Avery was a small-time activist on the fringes of the animal rights movement here when one day in 1999 he trailed a truck full of cats from a breeding farm to its destination: the gates of Huntingdon Life Sciences, Britain's largest animal research laboratory.
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An animal sanctuary is to stop taking in greyhounds after becoming a target for animal rights activists.
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The League Against Cruel Sports says it will challenge attempts to delay a ban on hunting with dogs.
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The House of Commons was poised to ram through a ban on fox hunting in England and Wales, against the backdrop of angry protests from thousands of hunt supporters outside parliament.
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Two British animal rights  campaigners clad in nothing more than bikinis made of lettuce  leaves braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to urge the  people of Kazakhstan to stop eating horses and go vegetarian.
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Britain unveiled plans Tuesday to tighten visa rules for tourists from outside Europe, drawing protests that it would hit immigrant families with visitors from countries such as India.