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• Activists sail from Cyprus determined to break Gaza blockade

  - 2008-08-22

  LARNACA, Cyprus AFP — Two converted fishing boats set sail from Cyprus on Friday carrying 44 pro-Palestinian activists determined to break the Israeli blockade of the poverty-stricken Gaza Strip. The activists, some of whom have received death threats, flashed peace signs and gave victory salutes before hugging each other...

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• Anti-whalers vow bigger Antarctic presence next year

  - 2008-02-01

  SYDNEY AFP — 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. Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel the Steve Irwin, said his ship had stopped...

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• Activists vow to carry on disrupting Japanese whaling

  - 2008-01-17

  SYDNEY AFP — A militant anti-whaling group vowed Friday to immediately resume harassing Japanese whalers as two of its activists were returned to their protest ship after being detained on board a harpoon vessel. The two protesters, held aboard the Japanese whaler in Antarctic waters for two days, were...

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• Japanese whalers take two activists captive

  - 2008-01-15

  SYDNEY AFP — Japanese whalers said Tuesday they are holding captive two activists who "illegally" boarded their vessel in the Southern Ocean, in a dramatic escalation in the battle between the two sides. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said its members boarded the ship to tell the whalers of...

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• Japan, animal activists show down in sea

  - 2007-02-09

  TOKYO AFP — Animal activists who attacked a Japanese whaling boat with acid were lost for hours in bad weather off Antarctica before being rescued, ironically with the Japanese vessel's help. Japan said Friday that two crewmen of the whaling ship were injured by the activists, who are harassing...

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• Four Greenpeace activists detained in blockade of toxic waste ship

  - 2006-09-26

  TALLINN AFP — Four activists from environmental pressure group Greenpeace were detained in an Estonian port when the group mounted a spectacular operation to prevent a ship involved in a toxic waste scandal in west Africa from setting out to sea. "Altogether we have now detained four Greenpeace activists," Tarmo...

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• Greenpeace ship leaves Marseille waters after fishermen's blockade

  - 2006-08-24

  MARSEILLE, France AFP — Greenpeace was forced to give up trying to get its flagship, the Rainbow Warrior II, into the harbour of the southern French city of Marseille after a two-day blockade by French tuna fishermen and refusals from authorities. The environmental activist group's ship was seen leaving the...

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• French 'asbestos' ship set to start Suez passage

  - 2006-01-22

  CAIRO AFP — France's decommissioned warship Clemenceau is set to move into the Suez canal overnight, after a 10-day delay and accusations that it posed a health hazard, officials said. "The tugging trials have been completed and we are awaiting the green light from the canal's authority to move...

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• US nuclear reprocessing shipment heads through France by road

  - 2004-10-07

  CHERBOURG, France AFP — A lorry suspected to be carrying a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals, to be reprocessed in southeast France, left a retreatment plant in the country's north under heavy escort, a French television journalist at the scene said. The 140 kilogrammes (300 pounds) of...

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• US nuclear shipment arrives in France

  - 2004-10-06

  CHERBOURG, France AFP — A ship carrying 140 kilograms (308 pounds) of deadly plutonium from weapons arsenals in the United States docked in the French port of Cherbourg, the Areva nuclear processing company announced. A second vessel which had also crossed the Atlantic, leaving from North Carolina on the...

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