Final hunts expected ahead of ban
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Supporters of fox hunting are expected to take part in the practice on the last day before it is banned.
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SINGAPORE hopes to decide by the end of the month when the ban on poultry imports from Johor and Malacca will be lifted. This was revealed even as fresh cases of bird flu were found yesterday
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Calls for a law allowing licensed fox hunting instead of an outright ban are set to go to a vote in the Lords.
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Peers are preparing to debate government plans for a ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales.
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Three hundred fox hunts begin as the government decides whether to push through an outright ban on hunting in England and Wales.
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Thousands of people are expected to turn out at 300 hunts in the UK at the start of this year's season.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Wuhan, 31 January: A three-month fishing ban on the Yangtze River [Chiang Jiang] imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture will take effect this Thursday [1 February].
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A ban on hunting is expected to be forced through using the Parliament Act after opposition from peers.
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Supporters of fox hunting took their battle to the courts after Britain's Labour government capped a seven-year debate by ramming through a ban of the centuries-old blood sport.
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Pro-hunt demonstrations will mark the start of the first hunting season since the Commons voted for a ban.
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Defeated in Parliament, British hunting supporters looked to the courts Friday to uphold their right to chase foxes. Some hunting supporters have threatened to disobey a new hunting ban after it takes effect on Feb. 18.
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Smokers across England are having their final puff before the ban on lighting up in enclosed public places begins.
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Officials in three states have said they will to allow hunting&#8212;which could reduce wolf numbers back to dire levels&#8212;if the creatures lose their protected status.
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Supporters say 250 hunts will meet legally the day after the ban in England comes into force. Is the hunting ban enforceable?
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The government faced looming battles with supporters of fox hunting in both the courts and the countryside after ramming through a law banning the centuries-old blood sport.
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An outright ban on fox hunting with dogs in England and Wales appeared inevitable after a majority of over 100 MPs in the House of Commons rejected last-ditch compromises on the blood sport.
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Pro-hunt campaigners are expected to protest against the hunting ban at Labour's spring conference.