Whaling activists in ship clash, Japan hosts meeting
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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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An unprecedented voting boycott of a resolution on Japan&#39;s &quot;lethal&quot; whale hunts marred talks Wednesday of the International Whaling Commission and intensified rifts in the 75-nation group.
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Japan said Friday it would be difficult to resolve a growing row with Australia over whaling as the issue was a cultural clash between the two countries.
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A meeting called by Japan to plan the end of the whaling moratorium is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the Japanese fleet, a news report said Tuesday.
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Two activists harassing a Japanese whaling boat off Anarctica were lost for seven hours in bad weather Friday before being rescued with the Japanese vessel's help, according to colleagues.
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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.
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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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AFP/File - A high-seas standoff between Japanese whalers and militant anti-whaling activists in the icy waters of the Antarctic drew the governments of Australia and Japan into the fray Wednesday.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged  Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling  activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental  disaster close to a major penguin colony.
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A U.N. meeting harpooned a Japanese bid  Tuesday to ease curbs on trade in whale products, but a defiant  Tokyo accused the West of "cultural imperialism" and vowed to  press efforts to expand whaling.
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A high-seas standoff between Japanese whalers and militant anti-whaling activists in the icy waters of the Antarctic drew the governments of Australia and Japan into the fray Wednesday.
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An animal rights group claimed Tuesday Japan has illegally killed hundreds of whales in an Australian whale sanctuary and launched legal action aimed at stopping the hunt.
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A Japanese whaling ship on Thursday handed over to an Australian customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed aboard two days earlier in protest, Japan's Fisheries Agency said.
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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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A militant anti-whaling group vowed Friday to immediately resume harassing Japanese whalers as two of its activists were returned to their protest ship after being detained on board a harpoon vessel.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.