Japan accused of killing pregnant whales
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More than half of about 500 whales killed by Japan in Antarctic waters during the last southern summer were pregnant, the Humane Society International (HSI) charged Tuesday.
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An international animal welfare group brought a landmark legal case accusing Japan's last commercial whaling company of killing more than 400 whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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Science & environment: Fifteen pilot whales die mass stranding on a New Zealand beach, and 15 more are still at risk
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severed head of a man found in Baghdad were of Koda. Newspapers reported his killing. Japan on October 23, killing at least 36 people and forcing 100,000 from their homes.
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In response to worldwide criticism, Japan announces threatened humpbacks will not be killed as planned on the annual whale hunt. Its whale fleet, now in the southern Pacific off Antarctica, will kill some 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales.
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Japan urged Australia Tuesday to take legal action against two anti-whaling protestors who climbed aboard a Japanese whaler in Antarctic seas last week, a foreign ministry statement said.
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Sydney - An international animal welfare group said on Tuesday it was taking legal action against a Japanese whaling company over the deaths of more than 400 whales in Australian waters near Antarctica.
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The militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday that it had located the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures.
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A special meeting of the global whaling body called by Japan  is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.   to plan the lifting of the global moratorium on commercial hunting.
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A Japanese whaling ship issued a distress signal from Antarctic waters on Monday, after it collided with a protest boat trying to save whales from slaughter, according to activists.
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Japan confirmed Friday its first case of  the human variant of mad cow disease after the death of a man  believed to have contracted the fatal brain-wasting illness  from eating infected beef in Britain.
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In Japanese villages each year, local fishermen hunt for large numbers of dolphins by herding them into shallow coves and then, scientists say, attacking them with knives and even eviscerating them alive.
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Japan said Thursday it has made no agreement to stop hunting humpback whales, denying comments from the US ambassador here that suggested a temporary deal had been struck.
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Japan has abandoned whale hunting in the  Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was  crippled by a fire two weeks ago, the Fisheries Agency said on  Wednesday.
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An international animal welfare group vowed to pursue a lawsuit accusing Japanese whalers of killing hundreds of whales within an Australian sanctuary despite Canberra's own reluctance.
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Japan was warned Friday it risks international anger if it includes endangered humpbacks in its annual whale cull, after threatening to pull out of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission.
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ELEANOR HALL: An international conservation group is today launching an unprecedented legal action, alleging that a Japanese whaling company has been killing protected whales inside Australia&#39;s Whale Sanctuary.