SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull vowed Wednesday to raise whaling in meetings with Japan’s leader Shinzo Abe this week as environmentalists urged him to pressure Tokyo to halt this season’s hunt.

A Japanese whaling fleet set sail this month for the Antarctic on a mission to resume the hunt after a one-year pause, sparking a “strong” formal protest from 33 countries, led by Australia and New Zealand.

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