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Iceland resumes whale hunt amid protest
Iceland has resumed its whale hunt with one of its two remaining whaling ships after a two-year hiatus, despite international criticism. The country, along with Norway and Japan, continues to permit whaling, and a protester chained himself to the vessel in Reykjavik before it departed.
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