Australia builds pressure on Japan over whaling
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Surveillance vessel sent to gather evidence for possible legal challenge to 'scientific' southern ocean cull
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A Japanese whaling ship and protest  vessels have collided in the Southern Ocean, with the  protesters saying they will next ram a Japanese factory ship,  despite Australian calls for them to back off before someone is  killed.
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Japan said Friday it will complain to Australia after the government released graphic pictures of bloody whaling operations, accusing Canberra of stirring up emotions.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Anti-whaling nations said on Monday they oppose Japan's proposal to permit whale hunting in its coastal communities and will push for Japanese concessions on other issues.
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Science & environment: Japan accuses Australia of offering 'limousine service' to environmental activists
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Australia's government on Thursday released graphic pictures of Japanese hunters harpooning whales and dragging their bleeding carcasses onto a ship near Antarctica, calling it evidence of the "indiscriminate" slaughter of the animals.
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Australia could act to end an Antarctic stand-off by collecting activists currently on board a Japanese whaler.
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New Zealand calls on Tokyo to accept Greenpeace's offer to tow its stricken whaling ship from the Antarctic.
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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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Australia said that it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese vessel.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country's fleet, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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Anti-whaling nations New Zealand and Australia vowed Thursday to continue the fight to end Japan's annual whale hunts, warning that its plans to kill humpback whales off Antarctica in December could spark outrage. The warning comes just a day after Japan ended its latest southern whale program following a deadly fire that crippled the mother ship of its whaling fleet and left it drifting near the Antarctic coast. A crewman died in the fire.
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SYDNEY - Humane Society International opened legal proceedings in Australian Federal Courts on Tuesday against a Japanese whaling fleet that it charges has killed more than 400 minke whales within Australia&#39;s whale sanctuary over the past four years.
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ANIMAL rights campaigners today claimed Japan has illegally killed hundreds of whales in an Australian sanctuary, and launched legal action aimed at stopping the hunt.
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Japan has pledged to keep whaling as its troubled fleet headed home early from Antarctic waters, while opponents exulted at the pullout and vowed to ramp up pressure against the hunt.
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New Zealand demanded an explanation from Japan why a crippled whaling ship remained in Antarctic waters posing a potential environmental threat.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The International Humane Society is taking a Japanese whaling company to court in Sydney on Tuesday, accusing it of killing whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.