Japan whaling ship catches fire
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A Japanese whaler catches fire near Antarctica, leaving one person missing and raising environmental fears.
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Anti-whaling activists hunted a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, intent on ramming its flagship, as pro-whaling nations met in Tokyo to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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The fire on Japan's ship Nisshin Maru may not have ended its Antarctic whaling operations for this season.
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A fire that broke out on an Indonesian ferry on Thursday, killing six people, has been put out, the navy said.
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Fire engulfed an Indonesian ferry with  more than 350 passengers on board off Jakarta Bay on Thursday,  the navy said in a statement. The Levina I was on its way to  Bangka island off Sumatra when it caught fire soon after dawn  50 miles from Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port.
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The minke whale lay on the heaving steel deck, its vast gray body slack in death. Images such as this one marking the start of the autumn whaling season could become common
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Japan condemns anti-whaling activists who dropped acid onto the deck of a whaling ship in the Antarctic.
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A Japanese whaling ship that drifted powerless for nine days near the world's biggest penguin breeding ground had posed a huge risk to the pristine Antarctic environment, New Zealand's prime minister said Monday.
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One missing in Antarctica's Ross Sea Japanese whaling ship the Nisshin Maru - currently in Antarctica's Ross Sea - has been partially evacuated following a fire, the BBC reports.â¦
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By Kathy Marks Asia-Pacific Correspondent  There are fears of an environmental disaster in the unspoilt waters off Antarctica after fire broke out on board a Japanese whaling ship, leaving it adrift near penguin breeding grounds.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 25 -- An Indonesian passenger ferry that caught fire last week capsized Sunday as accident investigators and journalists inspected the charred vessel, killing one person and leaving three others missing, witnesses and news reports said.
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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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A Japanese whaling ship has begun moving away from Antarctica under its own power, an official said Sunday &#151; 10 days after a fire left it crippled and laden with fuel near the world's biggest penguin breeding ground.
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Science & environment: Sea Shepherd abandons direct action against Japanese whalers in Antarctic as ship runs low on fuel
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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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Fire breaks out on a ferry carrying 250 people, soon after it sets sail from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Repair crews have restarted the main engine of a Japanese whaling ship crippled by a fire a week ago near Antarctica, but the vessel has not yet moved under its own power, an official said today.