Australian court orders Japan to stop whaling
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Australia's Federal Court on Tuesday ordered Japan to stop hunting and killing whales anywhere around its coastline or off Australian Antarctic territory.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Sunday said the threat of diplomatic action from Tokyo would not stop his government from gathering evidence against Japanese whalers to help stop the slaughter of the animals.
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Japan is due to again seek to wrest control of the 70-nation International Whaling Commission, which is currently preventing Tokyo resuming commercial whaling.
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Australia said Wednesday that Japan has agreed to release two activists detained after going aboard a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica, as whale hunters and defenders traded accusations of piracy.
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Science & environment: Japan accuses Australia of offering 'limousine service' to environmental activists
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Australia sent a customs ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists held on board a Japanese whaler as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd moved Thursday to end a tense standoff in the Antarctic.
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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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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 is dropping its much-criticized plan to kill protected humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, a media report said Friday.
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The International Whaling Commission passes a resolution condemning Japan's Antarctic whale hunt.
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An Australian judge Tuesday granted an activist group's request to ban a Japanese company from whaling in an Australian-declared animal sanctuary off Antarctica.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been suspended, a top Japan official says.
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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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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the countryâs fleet, a Japanese official said.
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Japan lost a bid on Wednesday to require the world body that regulates global wildlife trade to review the status of whales, a step that could have led to the resumption of commercial whaling.
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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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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.