Venice to ban rice at weddings over pigeons
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Throwing rice at newly-weds will soon be banned in Venice as the city steps up its fight against pigeons soiling its squares and chipping away at monuments.
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Beggars, buskers and hawkers are to be banned under a new public order law in Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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In an effort to turn an urban ugly duckling into a swan, the Brazilian city banned billboards.
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The decision was taken at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok, which regulates trade in wild flora and fauna.
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Kingston moves to contain flying rat menace The council of Kingston in Surrey is to carry out a "humane cull" of pigeons in the town's Memorial Gardens, the Surrey Comet reports.â¦
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Wood pigeons are flocking to urban areas because of changes in farming, the British Trust for Ornithology says.
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Comment is free: Zoe Williams: If the Catholic church is prepared to ban Amnesty, what other rights might it censure?
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The US House of Representatives voted to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption, which could bring an end to a 40-billion dollar industry exporting horse meat to Europe and Japan.
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Science & environment: Operation underway to halt a feared invasion of rats from destroying important seabird breeding station
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Italians looking after the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum have declared war on pigeons.
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NEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters Life!) - London has outlawed feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square and brought in trained hawks to kill them, prompting legal action against Mayor Ken Livingstone.
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Indonesian authorities have ordered the isolation of a district south of Jakarta after six people died from eating goat meat infected with anthrax, say officials.
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London has outlawed feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square and brought in trained hawks to kill them, prompting legal action against Mayor Ken Livingstone.
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Venice Mayor Massimo Cacciari wants to step up his war on pigeons, going so far as to outlaw wedding parties from throwing the traditional handful of rice at newlyweds, Italian media reported Monday.
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Thailand plans to ban families from raising fowl in open-air farms in an attempt to stop the spread of the avian influenza virus, the government said, without providing any details on how it will implement the ban.
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All Indonesian airlines including national carrier Garuda are to be banned from flying into the European Union.