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Iceland resumes killing

ANIMAL CONSERVATION GROUPS HAVE reacted angrily to the Icelandic government’s move to lift the temporary suspension of commercial whaling, which was introduced this summer following a ruling that the practice broke animal welfare laws.

“This decision is

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