'Clampdown' on animal activists
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Animal rights activists could face five years in prison for targeting research centres under new measures.
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Illegal in all 50 U.S. states, dogfighting is condemned even by social conservatives and avid hunters for whom animal rights is seldom a priority.
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KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Three animal rights   activists convicted under a U.S. anti-terrorism law were   sentenced to up to 6 years in prison on Tuesday for a campaign   against a British company that tests chemicals on animals.
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Three animal-rights activists convicted of using their Web site to incite threats and harassment against a company that tests products on animals received prison sentences ranging from four to six years Tuesday.
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A Hindu wedding ceremony of 18 dogs has been called off in India after hard-line religious groups and animal rights activists said it was a mockery of the religion and cruel to the canines, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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An animal rights group filed a complaint Wednesday against a kosher slaughterhouse for alleged cruelty to cattle. The slaughterhouse called the complaint a veiled attack on religious freedom.
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MPs have voted to ban hunting with dogs despite mass demonstrations and the debate in the House of Commons being interrupted by protesters.
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Michael Vick's indictment on dogfighting charges has brought the cruel activity into the headlines this week. But animal-rights activists say the practice is nothing new, and is, in fact, growing in popularity.
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A badger cull is proposed as part of the fight against bovine TB, but animal groups are opposing the move.
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Officials in the central German city of Erfurt called for stronger laws Monday to protect the rights of animals amid allegations that workers at the city's zoo killed some goats, sheep, pigs and other beasts to sell them for their meat.
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Plans to phase out the ban on cattle over 30 months old being sold as meat are announced.
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Government plans clampdown on vandalism after lobbying from biotech firms
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By Steve Lyttle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 20--In front of a standing-room-only crowd Monday night, the Chester County Council voted to ban "exotic animals" in the county.
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A clampdown on nuisance neighbours, including measures to address bad parenting, is to be announced.
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Well-heeled farmers, furious over a proposed law to ban fox hunting, have blocked military from using their land for training exercises.
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Protest curbs to be reviewed and greater protection for investigative journalism.