Japanese whaling crew detain activists on ship
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Two members of radical anti-whaling group held on Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters
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Militant environmentalists who have halted Japan's whaling in the Antarctic Ocean said Monday they were set to return to shore as they were running out of fuel.
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A Japanese whaling ship late Thursday handed over to an Australian customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed aboard two days earlier, an official from Japan's Fisheries Agency said.
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Four employees of US mining company Newmont are detained in Indonesia over a controversial pollution case.
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Japan is due to again seek to wrest control of the 70-nation International Whaling Commission, which is currently preventing Tokyo resuming commercial whaling.
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Russia released a detained Japanese fishing boat captain Thursday because of a chronic medical problem, a week after his boat and three others were seized in waters claimed by both countries, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.
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A militant anti-whaling group chasing Japanese whalers refused Wednesday to abandon their high-seas harassment in return for the release of two of its activists detained on board one of the ships.
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Police will grill the hardcore  activists who docked in Australia on Saturday amid pressure  from Japan for Canberra to take stronger action over recent  anti-whaling protests in icy waters near Antarctica.
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Customs officials offer to pick up two environmental activists held on Japanese harpoon ship
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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKI. June 3 (Interfax) - The Japanese fishing boat Hoshin Maru 88 has been detained in the area of the Komandorskiye islands off the coast of Kamchatka for breaking fishing rules.
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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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Japan has cut short its annual whaling expedition, which was dogged by environmental protests, after a ship was badly damaged by fire, officials said Wednesday.
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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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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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An Australian customs ship could be used to pick up two anti-whaling activists detained after boarding a Japanese whaler in Antarctic waters, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday.
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A militant anti-whaling group on Saturday said it attacked a Japanese whaling vessel with "stink bombs", frustrating the hunt, only an hour after two of its activists were freed from the harpoon boat.
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Japanese patrol vessels fired water cannon Sunday at a boat carrying Chinese activists who were protesting Japanese claims to territory in the East China Sea, the activist group said