New Zealand tells Japan to move crippled whaler
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New Zealand has pressed Japan to move a crippled and burning whaling ship away from the Antarctic coast, fearing an ecological disaster if it remains there.
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Japan expressed outrage on Friday after anti-whaling activists poured acid on the decks of a whaling ship in the Southern Ocean and slightly injured two crew members, terming their activities "piratical, terrorist acts".
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Japan is set to abandon whale hunting in the Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday urged calm in a bitter dispute on whaling with Australia, which voiced disappointment as whalers resumed their controversial Antarctic hunt.
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Australia's newly-elected government risks damaging political and trade ties with Tokyo if it uses the military to monitor Japanese whaling in Antarctic, the opposition said Friday.
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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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Japan sought international help on  Thursday for a Japanese man held hostage in Iraq, with less  than 24 hours to go for a deadline set by his captors to behead  him unless Tokyo withdraws its troops.
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Japan has decided to pull its whaling fleet out of the Antarctic and end this year's whale hunt early after a deadly fire crippled its mothership, officials said Wednesday.
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Japan sought international help on Thursday for a Japanese man held hostage in Iraq, with less than 24 hours to go for a deadline set by his captors to behead him unless Tokyo withdraws its troops.
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A Greenpeace vessel trying to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica has run low on fuel and is returning to port, the group said.
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Japan is confident it can secure the votes needed to resume commercial trade in whale products and that this would be a step toward lifting a ban on hunting the marine giants, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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Environmental campaigner Greenpeace said a stricken Japanese whaler off the Antarctic coast had asked its protest ship Esperanza to stay close as fears of an ecological disaster mount.
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Japan has dropped its plan to kill humpback whales in Antarctic waters after strong protests led by Australia, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Friday.
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Australia said Thursday it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese harpoon vessel from a rubber boat in Antarctic waters, offering a solution to a tense, two-day standoff on the high seas.
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A Japanese whaling ship on fire off the  coast of Antarctica has sparked fears of an environmental  disaster if the ship's 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and chemicals  leaks.
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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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By RAY LILLEY  WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A Japanese whaling ship caught fire Thursday in icy waters near Antarctica and most crew members were safely evacuated but one was listed as missing, officials said.