Diplomats destroy Egypt whale fossil
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European diplomats in four-wheel drive cars have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to a fossilised whale lying for millions of years in the Egyptian desert, a security source said on Sunday.
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The Egyptian government has summoned the  ambassador of Denmark in Cairo to protest at the reprinting of  cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers,  the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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Cleanup is set to begin within days at the first of three ancient World Heritage sites damaged in the summer's Hezbollah-Israel war &#151; a crumbling old castle rising from the Mediterranean whose foundation stones are now coated with oil sludge.
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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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Two activists attacked a Japanese whaling ship with a bottle of acid and a smoke bomb Friday, slightly injuring two crew members after the vessel helped rescue the protesters from the icy Ross Sea off Antarctica, officials said.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.
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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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Environmental activists deface a photo exhibition sponsored by oil giant Shell at the Natural History Museum.
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Nearly two months ago, the UN Security Council passed a US-sponsored, watered-down resolution threatening to &quot;consider action&quot; - a diplomatic euphemism for sanctions â-nless Sudan disarms government-backed Arab militias that have killed thousands of
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Protesters scored a victory in a high-seas campaign to disrupt Japan's whale hunt in the Antarctic, forcing the fleet to a standstill Wednesday while officials scrambled to unload two activists who used a rubber boat to get on board a harpoon vessel.
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Archaeologists hailed one of the most important finds in Egyptian history on Wednesday after a broken tooth identified the 3,500-year-old mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh.
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Greeceâs culture minister pruned the powers of the countryâs new archaeology chief after the dismissal and suicide attempt of the politician who preceded him in that post.
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Saudi Arabia&#39;s highest religious authority on Wednesday condemned as a sin the deadly shooting rampage at a US consulate, and local newspapers reported one of the slain assailants was a former employee of the nation&#39;s
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Sydney - Australian police and wildlife officers were ordered on Friday to destroy a large shark which killed a teenage surfer in a savage attack as his horrified schoolfriends looked on.
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Egyptian authorities began cleaning up what remains of a 1,500-ton oil slick caused by a tanker collision in the Mediterranean on Monday, an Environment Ministry spokesman said.
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JERUSALEM: The deadly blast at the Hilton hotel in Egypt&#39;s Red Sea resort of Taba on the border with Israel late Thursday was claimed by the previously unknown &quot;World Islamist Group&quot;, in a telephone call to AFP here.
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A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica&#39;s McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with