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...donor, says that five of the six Ady Gil crew members were on deck waving to the Bob Barker when the whaling ship cut across the Ady Gil's bow, splitting it in two. "It was completely unprovoked," Hammarstedt, who watched the collision from about 200 m away, told TIME. (See pictures of life beneath the Antarctic...
...claims that almost half of the International Whaling Commission's members support sustainable whaling, right now only Japan, Norway and Iceland hunt whales in significant numbers. Even with the loss of its fastest vessel, Sea Shepherd has the ships, funds and, most important, the will to continue. As Watson told reporters on Jan. 6, "We have a real whale war on our hands now, and we have no intention of retreating...
...Tuesday, an austere President Barack Obama told the nation that he had ordered his security teams to flesh out the systemic failures that allowed Abdulmutallab to board the plane to the U.S. with explosives allegedly sewn into his underwear. But intelligence gathering, in this case, didn't seem to be the problem. In fact, that system functioned exactly as it was meant to - indeed, perhaps too well. It's clear now that there were multiple signs in recent months that Abdulmutallab was a potential risk, but they were simply lost in the unmanageable flood of information the U.S. intelligence...
...Mohammed Reza Heydari told the Norwegian broadcaster NRK that his decision to step down was tied to the crackdown, during which security forces fired directly into crowds. At least eight people were killed, including the nephew of the opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. "It was the Iranian authorities' treatment of demonstrators over the Christmas period that made it clear to me that my conscience forbids me from continuing my job at the embassy," Heydari was quoted as saying by NRK. (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...
...Tehran immediately dismissed the report as rumor, calling it part of the "psychological war" being waged against Iran by the West. "The report is baseless. A diplomat returns to the country when his mission is finished in another country," Ramin Mehmanparast, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told the Reuters news agency. "Sometimes they stay longer in the country where they served as diplomats for various reasons, including waiting for the end of the school semesters for their children...