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• Activists stage dolphin die-in at Japanese embassy in US

  - 2008-09-03

  WASHINGTON AFP — Environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins Wednesday staged a die-in in Washington to protest what they called the "horrific butchering" of thousands of dolphins by Japanese fishermen every year. Animal welfare activists accuse Japan of brutally slaughtering some 20,000 dolphins and small whales every...

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• Tired of paying through the nose, Americans try praying at the pump

  - 2008-05-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — At a Shell gas station in Washington, Rocky Twyman and an unusual group of activists were mad as hell about soaring fuel prices. "Last week, this station was 3.51 dollars. Now it's practically 3.60. So it's gone up nine cents in one week," Twyman said as...

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• Abortion foes protest on anniversary of US legalization

  - 2008-01-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — Anti-abortion activists flooded into Washington Tuesday to protest against the Supreme Court's legalization of abortion in the United States on the 35th anniversary of its landmark Roe versus Wade decision. The annual "March for Life" rally was due to begin at noon (1700 GMT) on the...

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• Vietnam releases US couple accused of carrying handgun

  - 2007-12-11

  WASHINGTON AFP — Vietnam has released a US couple accused of carrying a handgun and bullets after being held at the Ho Chi Minh city's airport, the State Department and US lawmakers who pushed for their release said Tuesday. The Vietnamese-Americans, Le Van Phan and his wife Nguyen Thi...

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• Anti-war Sheehan vows stand against House speaker

  - 2007-07-23

  WASHINGTON AFP — US peace activist Cindy Sheehan vowed Monday to stand for election against top Democrat Nancy Pelosi in 2008, over her refusal to launch an impeachment drive against President George W. Bush. Sheehan who lost her US soldier son, Casey, in Iraq and became a figurehead for...

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• SKoreans rally against trade deal

  - 2007-03-25

  SEOUL AFP — South Korean activists staged a sit-down protest outside America's embassy in downtown Seoul Sunday over free-trade talks with the United States due to conclude with a deal by month's end. The prospect of a deal with Washington -- which would be the biggest such accord since...

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• Activists to march in US capital, worldwide for Guantanamo closure

  - 2007-01-10

  WASHINGTON AFP — Demonstrators will march in the US capital and other cities worldwide to demand the shut down of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. The protests, organized by human rights organizations and activists, including Amnesty International and the Center for Constitutional Rights, will fall on the fifth...

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• US threatens new Belarus sanctions after vote observers jailed

  - 2006-08-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — Washington condemned Belarus for sentencing four election monitors to jail and said the United States would impose sanctions against the responsible officials. The four Belarussian members of the Partnyorstvo Partnership election monitoring group were found guilty Friday of participating in an unregistered non-governmental organization. They...

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• Veggie bird flu rally has rival activists playing chicken

  - 2005-11-09

  WASHINGTON AFP — Bird flu is yet to reach US shores, but its dastardly potential already has feathers flying in Washington, a town stuffed with activists primed to twist any issue for political gain. In the first of a pair of poultry themed pranks, animal rights activists on Wednesday...

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• Anti-war campaigner Sheehan, hundreds more arrested outside White House

  - 2005-09-26

  WASHINGTON AFP — Police detained anti-Iraq war campaigner Cindy Sheehan and over three hundred other activists outside the White House, as the administration insisted that mounting protests would not sway President George W. Bush. Sheehan, the mother of a soldier who was killed in Iraq last year, was led...

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