Australia could pick up whaling activists held by Japan: minister
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An Australian customs ship could be used to pick up two anti-whaling activists detained after boarding a Japanese whaler in Antarctic waters, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday.
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Australia's government on Thursday released graphic pictures of Japanese hunters harpooning whales and dragging their bleeding carcasses onto a ship near Antarctica, calling it evidence of the "indiscriminate" slaughter of the animals.
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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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CANBERRA - Australia&#39;s foreign minister says it may be several days before the government can verify whether two Australian security guards have been taken hostage in Iraq.
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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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Two anti-whaling activists held captive on harpoon ship reported to be safe on board Australian vessel
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New Australian PM reportedly plans to use armed vessel to track Japanese whalers
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Australia is to send a patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet off Antarctica.
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Two activists who boarded a Japanese whaling ship to protest are taken into custody, officials confirm.
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Militant environmental activists on Saturday vowed to increase their presence in the Southern Ocean next year in their bid to prevent Japanese whalers from killing the giant mammals.
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A ship carrying militant anti-whaling activists was due to head back to Antarctic waters Thursday to resume harassing Japanese whalers, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica, the government announced Wednesday.
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Australia has begun talks with Indonesia  and Nauru over the fate of 85 asylum seekers rescued from the  Indian Ocean, the government said on Saturday as media reported  that the group would be sent back to Sri Lanka.
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A Japanese whaling ship late Thursday handed over to an Australian customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who barged aboard two days earlier, an official from Japan's Fisheries Agency said.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica in a bid to build a potential legal case against whaling for scientific research, the government said Wednesday.
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Australia says it will send a ship to collect two activists from a whaling vessel, in a bid to end a two-day stand-off.
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Japan said Friday it will complain to Australia after the government released graphic pictures of bloody whaling operations, accusing Canberra of stirring up emotions.