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Fifty-five whales that beached themselves in South Africa have died or been euthanized after efforts to save them were not successful.
South African marine authorities shot about 40 of the whales on Saturday, while the rest died of exhaustion and...
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The Serious Fraud Office is embroiled in a fiasco that may inadvertently have settled the fate of José Sócrates, the Portuguese Prime Minister, and determined the...
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EU talks on the Lisbon Treaty have been marred by a rift over demands made by the Republic of Ireland - which rejected the treaty in a 2008 vote.
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Heavy-handed and power-unchecked European Union regulators have spent so much time going after Microsoft and collecting unjustified fines from the corporation that the...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
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Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
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Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
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The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
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Last week about one hundred and forty whales beached themselves and died in southern Australia. About two hundred initially beached themselves but locals were able to...
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Rescuers worked Monday to save dozens of whales and several dolphins stranded on a beach in the southern Australian island state of Tasmania, the fourth beaching...
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Nearly 200 whales and several dolphins are stranded on a beach in the southern Australian island state of Tasmania, the latest in a string of beachings in recent...
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AP, Hobart
Rescuers trying to keep seven stranded sperm whales alive said Friday they were having difficulty navigating numerous sandbars but hoped to move the animals out to sea...
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Rescuers poured water on the parched skin of sperm whales beached on a remote sand bank off Australia’s coast Friday to keep them alive until the next high tide,...
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Police in the southern Australian state of Tasmania say up to 30 whales are stranded on a remote island off the state’s northwest tip.
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AP, Anchorage
The state will sue over increased federal protections for beluga whales in Cook Inlet, officials announced Wednesday.
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The state of Alaska says it will go to court to challenge the federal decision to protect beluga whales in Cook Inlet under the Endangered Species Act.
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AP, Honolulu
The U.S. Navy was granted a one-year permit to train with sonar and bombs in Hawaii waters so long as it tries to protect whales and other marine animals from harm.
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AP, Honolulu
The Navy has settled a lawsuit filed by environmentalists challenging its use of sonar in hundreds of submarine-hunting exercises around the world.
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AP, Washington
Shipping lanes around East Coast ports may have to steer clear of endangered whales.
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AP, Hobart
A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.
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AP, Hobart
A group of about 80 whales stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could reach them.
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Officials rushed Sunday to reach about 80 whales stranded on a remote coast in southern Australia.
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Rescuers moved 11 pilot whales more than 7 miles to a deep-water beach in the hope they would return to sea after the mammals became stranded in southeastern Australia,...
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Seven Puget Sound killer whales are missing and presumed dead. They include:
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Chile has turned all of its Pacific Ocean territorial waters into a whale sanctuary.
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AP, Vancouver
Environmentalists are taking the Canadian government to court, demanding it use the country’s Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia.
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To save a slow-moving species of whale that lives along the Atlantic coast, the government is telling ships to slow down.
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