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WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 7, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Japanese whalers and anti-whaling activists clashed in the waters near Antarctica on Friday, with each side offering conflicting accounts of a confrontation with violent overtones. The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said one of its m.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Mar 6, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs in an anti-rabies program that aims to kill some 100,000 dogs in the region's main city, officials said Thursday. Animal rights activists vowed to go to court in a bid to stop the slaughter pla.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Four Greenpeace activists climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday to protest plans to build a third runway, the environmental group said. The protesters unveiled a banner atop the plane which reads, "Climate emerge.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 12:27pm neoform

Toronto Star -- Standing beside two parked cars, two men in dark baseball hats wait for the signal. It's broad daylight and nearly rush hour on Bloor. A woman in paint-stained jeans sprints ahead of the men, scanning the street. Another stations herself across the roa.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Anti-EU activists optimistic And anti-EU activists expressed growing confidence they would triumph when official results are declared Friday afternoon. "People felt a convincing case for the treaty had not been made, and they felt hectored and bulli.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Japan's whaling fleet has failed to catch its quota, after being disrupted by clashes with anti-hunting activists. The fisheries agency said the fleet caught 60% of the minke whales they had planned - 551 from a target of 850. The ships, which were.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 27, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- British environmental activists climbed onto the roof of the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday in protest at plans for a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport. Five protesters had gained access to the roof, unfurling a banner reading "No third runway".. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun May 27, 2007 @ 5:29am neoform

BBC News -- Russian homosexual rights activists have vowed to go ahead with a march in Moscow despite an official ban and a planned counter-demonstration. GayRussia organiser Nikolai Alexeyev said activists would deliver a petition to Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. Th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 10:38am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Two anti-whaling protesters were dramatically rescued from the freezing waters of the Antarctic today after angry clashes at sea between environmentalists and the crew of a Japanese whaling ship. One of the men, part of a group of activists trying to s.. Read More